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In 2008/09 Austrian bass-baritone Markus Butter will debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the Orchestre de Paris under Paavo Järvi and the Bachakademie Stuttgart under Helmuth Rilling. At the Festspielhaus Salzburg he will sing 9. Beethoven and Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and at the Wiener Musikverein Martin’s In terra pax with the Wiener Symphoniker under Fabio Luisi. Being member of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden since 2005, he performs in 2008/09 Tann-häuser, Fidelio, Zauberflöte and the new production of Hans Werner Henze’s L’upupa. In summer 2009 he will appear again at the Theater an der Wien in Don Giovanni.
In 2007 Markus Butter made his opera debut at the Salzburger Festspiele as Ottokar in a new production of Weber’s Freischütz, directed by Falk Richter and conducted by Markus Stenz. He sang in a new production of Orlando Paladino at the Theater an der Wien under Nikolaus Harnoncourt and made his concert debut at the Teatro alla Scala. Concerts took him to Firenze, Sevilla and Köln, where he performed Bach’s Christmas oratorio and St. John Passion and Haydn’s Creation under the baton of Peter Schreier and Markus Stenz.
Guest-appearances led him to Oper Köln (Janacek’s Cunning little Vixen), Wiener Klangbogen (Dalibor under Kirill Petrenko and Don Giovanni under Bertrand de Billy) and to the Teatro Regio di Parma (Gluck’s Alceste under Bruno Bartoletti. At the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where he was member between 2001 and 2005, Markus Butter broadened his repertoire continuously with important parts such as Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Gerard Mortier engaged the artist for Masetto in Don Giovanni for the first Ruhrtriennale in 2002. Singing this same part Markus Butter later was guest at Oper Köln and Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.
Markus Butter sang concerts with the Münchner Philharmoniker and the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig. Under the baton of Peter Schreier he performed works by Haendel and Bach in Italy, France and Spain. Under Zubin Mehta he sang a series of concert performances of Beethoven’s Fidelio in Israel and Haydn‘s Missa in tempore belli in Munich. At the Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia di Roma under Fabio Luisi he appeared as Joseph in Berlioz’ L’Enfance du Christ and with the Israel Philharmonic under Wolfgang Sawallisch in Elijah. In 2000 Markus Butter celebrated his debut at the Salzburger Festspiele and at the Brucknerfest Linz. He performed at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Philharmonie Köln, Victoria Hall Genève and made his Recital-debut at the Wiener Musikverein. From 1999-2001 he was member of the Bayerische Staatsoper München.
Markus Butter was born in Bruck an der Mur (Austria) in 1973. He was member of the Wiener Sängerknaben and studied at the Johann Josef Fux-Conservatory in Graz and at the Academy of Music in Graz. He attended master-classes with Kammersänger Walter Berry and continued his recital-studies with Fritz Schwinghammer at the Academy of Music in Munich. In 1997 he was awarded the 2nd prize at the International Competition „Das Schubert-Lied“ in Vienna.
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