Michael Kranebitter

Michael Kranebitter (born January 16, 1982 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian opera, concert and lied singer ( baritone ).

Life

Michael Kranebitter gained his first musical and solo experience with the Wilten Boys' Choir in his hometown of Innsbruck. He studied with Gabriele Fuchs, Sylvia Greenberg , Christian Gerhaher and Helmut Deutsch at the University of Music and Theater in Munich and attended several master classes during this time (including with Brigitte Fassbaender , Thomas Hampson , Christian Gerhaher, Margreet Honig, Eytan Pessen).

Guest engagements have taken him to many European opera houses, including the Semper Opera , the Berlin State Opera Berlin , the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma , the Teatro Verdi di Salerno , the State Theater Innsbruck , the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz Munich , the Prince Regent Theater in Munich , the City theaters in Fürth and Ingolstadt as well as at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music . In September 2017 he made his debut at the Opéra Bastille in Paris as Kromow in the operetta The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár alongside Thomas Hampson .

As a concert singer Michael Kranebitter can be heard in Bach's oratorios and cantatas, Handel's Messiah , Mozart's Requiem , Mendelssohn's oratorios Paulus and Elias, and in Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem .

Michael Kranebitter is married to the soprano Marie-Sophie Pollak and lives near Munich in Rott am Lech .

Games (selection)

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro - Figaro
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte - Guglielmo
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni - Don Giovanni
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute - Papageno
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Eugene Onegin - Eugene Onegin
• Georges Bizet : Carmen - Escamillo
• Reinhard Keizer : Fredegunda - Sigibert

Web links

• Michael Kranebitter at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Michael Kranebitter homepage