Adrian Eröd

The young Austrian baritone Adrian Eröd is already a great favorite of public and press at his base, the Vienna State Opera, with his tremendous diversity, whether as Figaro in Rossini’s Barber of Seville, as Valentin in Gounod’s Faust, as Britten’s Billy Budd or as Lescaut in Massenet’s Manon. His magnificent success with Christian Thielemann as Sixtus Beckmesser (Meistersinger von Nürnberg) led to an invitation to sing the role at the Bayreuther Festspielen, then later also in Zurich, Cologne, Leipzig, Tokyo and Amsterdam. His performance of Loge (Das Rheingold) in the Vienna State Opera had attracted international attention, his creation of the role of Shylock (André Tchaikovsky: The Merchant of Venice) at the Bregenz Festival was highly acclaimed, and in 2014 he debuted at the Salzburg Festival as Faninal (Rosenkavalier). Since his debut 2001 at the Vienna State Opera as Mercutio (Roméo et Juliette), he has been cast in such roles as Guglielmo, Conte Almaviva, Eisenstein, Albert (Werther) and Olivier (Capriccio). The leading male role of Jason in Aribert Reimann’s Medea was written for him and he performed the world premiere. He has also appeared at the Semperoper in Dresden (Olivier, Faninal), the Teatro Fenice in Venice (Harlekin), at the Hamburg State Opera (Pelléas), at the Oper Frankfurt (Prospero in Adès’ The Tempest), the Tokyo National Opera (Don Giovanni, Guglielmo, Eisenstein), the Paris Opera (Olivier), the Houston Grand Opera (Don Giovanni) and the Chicago Lyric Opera (Dr.Falke). Following his education at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Vienna, where he was a student of Walter Berry, he was engaged at the Landestheater Linz, then Wiener Volksoper and finally the Vienna State Opera. Eröd is also successful on the concert stage. He has appeared among others with Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic, with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Bach’s Matthäuspassion.

Education and training:
Musikhochschule Wien – Teacher: Walter Barry

Professional history:
Landestheater Linz
Wiener Staatsoper(2001-)
Guest performances int he role of Sixtus Beckmesser: Bayreuther Festspiele (2009), Zürich, Köln, Leipzig, Tokyo, Amsterdam
Guest performancesin other roles: Teatro Fenice, Hamburgischer Staatsoper, Oper Frankfurt, Tokyo National Opera, Opéra de Paris, Chicago Lyric Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Salzburger Festspiele

Principal roles:
Adès: The Tempest - Prospero
André Tchaikowsky: The Merchant of Venice -Shylock
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande – Pelléas
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette – Mercutio
Gounod: Faust – Valentin
Massenet: Manon - Lescaut
Massenet: Werther – Albert
Mozart: Così fan tutte – Guglielmo
Mozart: Don Giovanni – Don Giovanni
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro – Conte Almaviva
Reimann: Medea - Jason
Rossini: Il barbiere di Sevilla – Figaro
Strauss: Die Fledermaus – Eisenstein, Dr. Falke
Strauss: Ariadné auf Naxos – Harlekin
Strauss: Capriccio – Olivier
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier– Faninal
Wagner: Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Sixtus Beckmesser
Wagner: Das Rheingold – Loge