Biography

    The Austrian tenor Jörg Schneider has enjoyed a career that has flourished in Europe and especially in Italy, where he sang in almost every important operahouse.

    He started his career in 1995 as member of the Staatstheater Wiesbaden. From 1997 on till 2000 he was member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf.

    As a freelancer he sang Belmonte at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Tamino at the Opernhaus Zürich and at the Teatro Communale Firenze and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s “Walpurgisnacht” at the Teatro all Scala di Milano.

    He appeared also at the La Monnaie in Brussels, the Semperoper Dresden, the Tel Aviv Opera, the Volksoper Wien, the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Teatro Regio di Torino, the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, the Teatro Regio di Parma, the Teatro Bellini di Catania, the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, where he sang Steuermann and Don Ottavio. In 2007/2008 he sang Belmonte in “Entführung” under the baton of Zubin Mehta in Tel Aviv, “Kantate auf den Tod Haydns” from Luigi Cherubini under the baton of Riccardo Muti at the Musikverein in Vienna, Jacquino in “Fidelio” under the baton of Claudio Abbado in Ferrara, Reggio Emilia, Madrid/ Teatro Real and Baden-Baden etc. will follow 2008. On January 1st in 2008 Mr Schneider debuted as Alfred in “Die Fledermaus” at the Vienna State Opera.

    Favorite roles within his repertory include Mozart’s Tamino, Don Ottavio, Belmonte and Ferrando, Strauss’ Leukippos, Sänger (“Der Rosenkavalier”) and Flamand, Donizetti’s Ernesto and Tonio, Rossini’s Almaviva, Alberto (“La Gazetta”) and Don Ramiro, Meyerbeer’s Corentino (“Dinorah”), Wagner’s Steuermann, Loge and David and Johann Strauß’ Marchese Sebastiani (“Der Lustige Krieg”) and Alfred (“Die Fledermaus”). Of both roles exist CD-recordings. Edita Gruberová is his partner as Adele in “Die Fledermaus”.

    He also appeared on the concert stage with various famous orchestras at the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Philharmonie Dresden, the Wiener Musikverein, the Wiener Konzerthaus, in Paris, Napoli and at the Concertgebow in Amsterdam. His concert repertory includes for instance Haydn’s “Die Schöpfung”, Verdi’s and Mozart’s “Requiem”, Bach’s “Johannespassion”, Beethoven’s Ninth and “Christus auf dem Ölberg”.

    Jörg Schneider works constanly together with conductors like Zubin Mehta, Theodor Guschlbauer, Gustav Kuhn, Pinchas Steinberg, Dennis Russell Davis, Edo de Wart, Friedrich Haider and Semyon Bychow, with whom he interpreted the role of Leukippos in several performances of Strauss’ “Daphne”.