Markus Butter

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Markus Butter (* 1973 in Bruck an der Mur ) is an Austrian opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

Butter was a member and soloist of the Vienna Boys' Choir from 1982 to 1986 and graduated from the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster in 1991 . He received his further education at the Johann Joseph Fux Conservatory Graz and from 1994 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz .

Also in 1994 he began to work as an oratorio and lieder singer in Austria and Germany. From 1998 to 1999 he was a member of the Young Ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera and from 1999 a member of the Bavarian State Opera. He then moved to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and in 2005 to the Semperoper Dresden, of which he is still a member.

Guest performances have taken him to the Aalto Theater in Essen (2014), to the Bregenz Festival (2014) and several times to the Theater an der Wien (2010, 2011, 2015).

Roles (selection)

  • 2014–2015: Dr. Falke ( Die Fledermaus ), Semperoper Dresden
  • 2014–2015: The Speaker ( The Magic Flute ), Semperoper Dresden
  • 2014–2015: Rittmeister, confessor ( stories from the Vienna Woods by HK Gruber ), Bregenz Festival, Theater an der Wien
  • Flemish Deputy ( Don Carlo ), Bavarian State Opera
  • Court usher ( What you want ), Bavarian State Opera
  • Hauptmann ( Simon Boccanegra ), Bavarian State Opera
  • Kuligin ( Katja Kabanova ), Bavarian State Opera
  • Moralès ( Carmen ), Bavarian State Opera
  • Masetto ( Don Giovanni ), Theater an der Wien

Awards

  • 1997: 2nd prize in the international competition "Das Schubertlied" in Vienna
  • 2009: Christel Goltz Prize

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Demanding the intellect , article in Kleine Zeitung , February 19, 2011, accessed on March 21, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Butter, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruck an der Mur