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Adrian Eröd
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- Alexander Brunner
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GALLERY
BIOGRAPHY
"If there were a Nestroy Prize for the best voice actor, it would surely go to Adrian Eröd."
- Karl Löbl
"Adrian Eröd is a veritable luxury cast as the music teacher."
- Susanne Zobl | Kurier
For years, the Austrian baritone Adrian Eröd has thrilled audiences and the press alike at his home opera house, the Vienna State Opera, with his versatility in a wide variety of roles, be it as Prospero in Thomas Adès' The Tempest, as the music teacher in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos or as Sixtus Beckmesser in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, with which he has also appeared in Bayreuth, Zurich, Cologne, Leipzig, Tokyo, Amsterdam and - under the direction of Christian Thielemann - in Dresden and at the Salzburg Easter Festival.
His portrayal of Loge in the Vienna production of Wagner's Das Rheingold caused an international sensation, while he also celebrated success as Shylock in the world premiere of André Tchaikovsky's The Merchant of Venice at the Bregenz Festival and made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as Faninal in Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier in Harry Kupfer's production.
Since his debut at the Vienna State Opera as Mercutio in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Adrian Eröd has sung roles such as Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Conte Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Billy Budd, Pelléas, Valentin (Faust), Albert (Werther), Frank/Fritz (Die tote Stadt), Olivier and Count (Capriccio), Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), the lead male role of Jason in the world premiere of Aribert Reimann's Medea, composed specifically for him, and Prospero in the Austrian premiere of Thomas Adès' The Tempest under the direction of the composer himself. In addition to the Vienna State Opera, he appeared at the Semperoper in Dresden, Berlin State Opera, La Scala in Milan and the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Opéra de Paris, Teatro Real in Madrid, Houston Grand Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Frankfurt Opera and the Tokyo National Opera.
Parallel to his opera career, Adrian Eröd has achieved great success on the concert stage. He has appeared with Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, with notable performances including Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony under Christian Thielemann, Orff’s Carmina Burana under Fabio Luisi and Alain Altinoglu, Brahms’ German Requiem under Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla and Helmut Rilling, with Bach’s St. John Passion under Philippe Jordan, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony under Andris Nelsons, Fauré’s Requiem with Myung-Whun Chung and Mendelssohn’s Elijah under Marek Janowski. Additional appearances have included engagements at the Suntory Hall Tokyo, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Philharmonie in Berlin, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional, Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the Lucerne Festival, Salzburg Mozartwoche, and the Styriarte Festival in Graz.
As a devoted lied singer, Adrian Eröd has appeared at venues including the Vienna and Graz Musikverein, the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the Liszt Centre Raiding, the Tokyo Spring Festival and the Carinthian Summer festival. His recordings include songs by Franz Liszt and Schubert's Winterreise, while his most recent solo album entitled "Berührungspunkte" (Points of Contact) will soon be released on the Quinton Records label, alongside works by Mozart and Schubert as well as songs by Egon Wellesz and Aribert Reimann.
Adrian Eröd is an Austrian Kammersänger.
2024 | 2025
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DISCOGRAPHY
Berührungspunkte
Selection of songs by Egon Wellesz, W. A. Mozart and more
Adrian Eröd, Baritone
Christoph Traxler, Historischer Bösendorfer Imperial grand piano
Recording director: Jean-Christophe Kummer
Sound engineer: Andreas Rathammer
Label: Quinton Records | 2024
Viktor Ullmann: Der Kaiser von Atlantis
CD
Juliana Zara, Christel Loetzsch, Johannes Chum, Adrian Eröd, Lars Woldt, Tareq Nazmi
Münchner Rundfunkorchester
conductor: Patrick Hahn
Label : BR Klassik | 2022
Engelbert Humperdick: Hänsel und Gretel
DVD
Adrian Eröd, Janina Baechle, Daniela Sindram, Ileana Tonca, Michaela Schuster, Annika Gerhards, Annika Gerhards
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Director: Adrian Noble
Label: EuroArts | 2016
Nachtmusique
Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Fran zAnton Hoffmeister, Anton Stadler, Giovanni Paisiello, Franz Xaver Süssmayr
Monica Theiss-Eröd, Adrian Eröd, Valentina Kutzarova
Calamus Consort
Label: Gramola | 2016
CALENDAR
Hans Pfitzner: Palestrina
Günther Groissböck, Pope Pius IV.
Michael Nagy, Giovanni Morone
Michael Laurenz, Bernardo Novagerio
Wolfgang Bankl, Cardinal Christoph Madruscht
Wolfgang Koch, Carlo Borromeo, Roman Cardinal
Hiroshi Amako, Abdisu, Patriarch of Assyria
Adrian Eröd, Count Luna, Ambassador of the King of Spain
Norbert Ernst, Bishop of Budoja
Michael Gniffke, Theophilus, Bishop of Imola
Michael Spyres, Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina, Kapellmeister at the Church of St Maria Maggiore in Rome
Florina Ilie, Ighino, his son
Patricia Nolz, Silla, his pupil
Christian Thielemann, conductor
Herbert Wernicke, production
Herbert Wernicke, stage design, costumes and lighting
Hans Pfitzner: Palestrina
Günther Groissböck, Pope Pius IV.
Michael Nagy, Giovanni Morone
Michael Laurenz, Bernardo Novagerio
Wolfgang Bankl, Cardinal Christoph Madruscht
Wolfgang Koch, Carlo Borromeo, Roman Cardinal
Hiroshi Amako, Abdisu, Patriarch of Assyria
Adrian Eröd, Count Luna, Ambassador of the King of Spain
Norbert Ernst, Bishop of Budoja
Michael Gniffke, Theophilus, Bishop of Imola
Michael Spyres, Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina, Kapellmeister at the Church of St Maria Maggiore in Rome
Florina Ilie, Ighino, his son
Patricia Nolz, Silla, his pupil
Christian Thielemann, conductor
Herbert Wernicke, production
Herbert Wernicke, stage design, costumes and lighting
Hans Pfitzner: Palestrina
Günther Groissböck, Pope Pius IV.
Michael Nagy, Giovanni Morone
Michael Laurenz, Bernardo Novagerio
Wolfgang Bankl, Cardinal Christoph Madruscht
Wolfgang Koch, Carlo Borromeo, Roman Cardinal
Hiroshi Amako, Abdisu, Patriarch of Assyria
Adrian Eröd, Count Luna, Ambassador of the King of Spain
Norbert Ernst, Bishop of Budoja
Michael Gniffke, Theophilus, Bishop of Imola
Michael Spyres, Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina, Kapellmeister at the Church of St Maria Maggiore in Rome
Florina Ilie, Ighino, his son
Patricia Nolz, Silla, his pupil
Christian Thielemann, conductor
Herbert Wernicke, production
Herbert Wernicke, stage design, costumes and lighting
Hans Pfitzner: Palestrina
Günther Groissböck, Pope Pius IV.
Michael Nagy, Giovanni Morone
Michael Laurenz, Bernardo Novagerio
Wolfgang Bankl, Cardinal Christoph Madruscht
Wolfgang Koch, Carlo Borromeo, Roman Cardinal
Hiroshi Amako, Abdisu, Patriarch of Assyria
Adrian Eröd, Count Luna, Ambassador of the King of Spain
Norbert Ernst, Bishop of Budoja
Michael Gniffke, Theophilus, Bishop of Imola
Michael Spyres, Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina, Kapellmeister at the Church of St Maria Maggiore in Rome
Florina Ilie, Ighino, his son
Patricia Nolz, Silla, his pupil
Christian Thielemann, conductor
Herbert Wernicke, production
Herbert Wernicke, stage design, costumes and lighting
Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
A music teacher, Adrian Eröd
The composer, Kate Lindsey
The Tenor (Bacchus), Michael Spyres
Zerbinetta, Sara Blanch
The prima donna (Ariadne), Anna Netrebko
Harlequin, Jusung Gabriel Park
Musical direction, Cornelius Meister
Production, Sven-Eric Bechtolf
Staging, Rolf Glittenberg
Costumes, Marianne Glittenberg
Lighting, Jürgen Hoffmann
