About
Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, Matthias Stier first studied at the conservatorio G. Verdi in Turin. He attended master classes with Elio Battaglia at the Summer Academy of the Salzburg Mozarteum, where in 2006 he was awarded the prize for the best participant.
Today he is working with Roberto Bellotti in Milan.
Matthias Stier has won several international voice competitions: 2004 he received the award for the best lied singer at the Renata Tebaldi Competition in San Marino, 2005 he received the Calpurnia-award at the Festival delle Nazioni di Città di Castello, where he debuted in the part of Arlecchino in Szymanowski’s opera Mandragora.
At the international voice competitions Silvio Omizzolo, Padua 2006, and Città di Conegliano, 2008, he won 1st price.
2010/11 he was heard at the Teatro Regio in Turin in Boris Godunov and in I Vespri Siciliani.
Since the beginning of the 2011-12 season Matthias Stier belongs to the ensemble of Oper Braunschweig, where he performed Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Fenton in Falstaff, Adam in concert performances of Carl Zeller’s Der Vogelhändler, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Alfredo in La Traviata, Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore as well as in L’heure espagnole/Le Rossignol, Händel’s Saul, Bernstein’s West Side Story and in Jenö Hubay’s Anna Karenina.
2014/15 he sang, among others, Jonas in Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète, Freddy Eynsford-Hill in Loewe’s My fair Lady, Abate in Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, Edgar in Hermann’s Wuthering Heights and Mads in Egk’s Peer Gynt.
2015/16 he gave his debut in the part of Duca in Rigoletto and will pefrorms new productions of Offenbach’s Les Brigands and Tchaikovskij’s The Queen of Spades as well as the world creation Peter Aderhold’s Orlando.
In fall 2013 he guested as Fenton in a new production Falstaff in Ravenna.
2015 he sang the same part in Reggio Emilia and – conducted by Riccardo Muti – at Ravenna Festival and in Oviedo.
As a concert singer he performed several times at the Festival Settembre Musica MITO in Turin and sang Dvorak’s Requiem in Istanbul, Puccini’s Missa di Gloria and Haydn’s Schöpfung in Berne, the world creation of Andrea Portera’s Tagete e la terra dell’arcobaleno at Stresa Festival, Schuberts Mass in E flat major in Florenz, and 2014 Beethoven’s 9th symphony in Cortona conducted by Daniele Rustioni and Schubert’s mass in F major in Basel conducted by Kevin Griffiths.
Matthias Stier gave song recitals in Turin, at the Teatro Comunale in Treviso, in Moscow and in Rouen with accompanists such as Alexander Lonquich and Semjon Skigin. Lately he was heard with Schumann’s Dichterliebe in Dresden.