About
The tenor, from Hall in Tyrol, was trained by Brigitte Fassbaender. He was introduced to the world of music and trained from a young age as a treble by Howard Arman.
In 2004 he won First Prize at the Austrian state competition prima la musica, and in 2007 he was awarded the Eberhard-Wächter Medal of the Vienna State Opera, aged only 23. He stepped up his singing studies with master courses under Robert Holl; his work with Brigitte Fassbaender was formative for the start of his career.
He had his first experience on stage aged ten as First Boy in Mozart’s Magic Flute, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. In 2003 he made his debut as Ottokar in Johann Strauss’s Zigeunerbaron in the Tiroler Landestheater under the direction of Brigitte Fassbaender. In 2006 he was offered his first formal engagement and had at first small parts such as Tamino in Mozart’s Magic Flute, Edmondo in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, Normanno in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor as well as, on leaving the ensemble, Ramiro in Rossini’s Cenerentola.
Since the season of 2011/2012 he is member of the Frankfurt ensemble. In early 2014 he performed in the Frankfurt Opera for the first time in a Verdi opera as Fenton in Falstaff (Director: Keith Warner, Conductor:
Bertrand de Billy) and in April added Don Ottavio in a new production of Don Giovanni by Christof Loy a further Mozart part to his repertoire. In this role he will also make his debut end of 2016 in Vienna´s Theater an der Wien. In 2014/2015 he also performed in Frankfurt as Belmonte (The Abduction from the Seraglio) and Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola).
In the season of 2015/2016 he will also make his role debut there as Giannetto (La gazza ladra). A growing number of engagements also lead him to further opera houses. Already in 2011 he guest performed in Zurich Opera as Tamino in Mozart´s The Magic Flute and in 2014 he made his debut as Ferrando at the Semperoper Dresden. Following his debut at the Salzburger Festspiele 2012 as Brighella in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos directed by Daniel Harding, he was a guest there again in summer 2013, this time as Ferrando in Sven Eric Bechtolf’s new production of Così fan tutte, with Christoph Eschenbach on the rostrum.
In June 2015 Decca published the highly appraised new recording of Leonardo Vinci´s opera Catone in Utica under the baton of Riccardo Minasi. Guest performances lead him to Wiesbaden, Bergen Festival, Versailles as well as to Bucharest and Vienna´s Theater an der Wien.
Undoubtedly the focus of his singing lies in opera, but Martin Mitterrutzner possesses a broad concert repertoire, reaching from Early Music, via Bach and Handel, to modern times with works by Benjamin Britten and Sven David Sandström.
He was a guest performer at concerts by the Munich Radio Orchestra under Jun Märkl, the Internationale Bachakademie with Helmuth Rilling, the MDR Choir under Howard Arman, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, the Hessische Staatsorchester under Marc Piollet and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano as well as the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst. Also as a Lied singer the young tenor already managed to achieve an excellent reputation. Following recitals in Eppan, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Eppaner Liedsommer as well as at Wilhelmshöher Schlosskonzerte he first time performed with Gerold Huber at Liederabende at the Frankfurt Opera and in the Cologne Philharmonic Hall.
In the season of 2015/2016 the duo will perform at Heidelberg Spring Festival and at Schubertiade Schwarzenberg.