Univ.-Prof. Jörg Schneider, Tenor
Ordinariate for Voice
schneider-joerg@mdw.ac.at

Austrian tenor Jörg Schneider has been a member of the Vienna State Opera since September 2017, prior to which he was a member of the Vienna Volksoper ensemble for 10 years. His career took him from the Hessian State Theatre Wiesbaden to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where he was also a member of the ensemble, and then back to his native Austria. He received his training in Vienna, first as a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir and later as a student of Elfriede Obrowsky.

In 2024, he made his role debut in Bari as Florestan in Beethoven's Fidelio. In 2022, he made his role debut as the Captain in Alban Berg's Wozzeck, sang Pygmalion in Suppè's Die schöne Galathée at the Prinzregententheater in Munich in a radio broadcast, and in September and October 2022, he sang Mime in Der Ring in concert in Dresden under the baton of Marek Jankowski. Also in 2022, he made his house debut as Mime in Rheingold at the Vienna State Opera. He had already made his role debut as Mime in Rheingold in 2018 at the Hamburg State Opera. In December 2021, he sang Iro in Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, including a CD production at the Versailles Opera House in Paris. In Munich, he sang Sultan Soleman in Mozart's Zaide at the Prinzregententheater, and the evening was broadcast on radio. He made his debut at the Bavarian State Opera in 2017 as the Dance Master in Ariadne auf Naxos, and in Paris he was Iro in Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. He also sang Ivo in a concert series with René Jacobs in Belgium, Holland, Germany and Austria. As a member of the ensemble at the Vienna State Opera, he was involved in four premieres during the 2017/18 season – Der Spieler, Lulu, Samson et Dalia and Dantons Tod – and sang Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Narraboth and many other roles. In 2016, in addition to the Volksoper, he sang the Italian Singer in Capriccio by Richard Strauss at the Theater an der Wien, then Schubert in Das Dreimäderlhaus at the Sommerarena Baden, and made his role debut as Herod in Salome at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt.

Guest engagements in his successful career have taken Jörg Schneider to the Teatro alla Scala di Milano, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Semperoper Dresden, the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Théâtre le la Monnaie in Brussels, the Opernhaus Zürich, the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, the Teatro Regio di Parma, the Teatro Comunale di Firenze, the Teatro Regio di Torino, the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, the Teatro Communale in Ferrara, the Seefestspiele Mörbisch, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Tokyo and Hong Kong. As a concert singer, Jörg Schneider has appeared at the Royal Albert Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Dresden Philharmonic, Radio France and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. His concert repertoire includes Haydn's Die Schöpfung, Schumann's Dichterliebe, Bach's St John Passion, Mozart's Requiem, Verdi's Messa da Requiem, Berlioz's Te Deum and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's Die erste Walpurgisnacht. He has worked with renowned conductors including Christian Thielemann, Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Dennis Russell Davis, Edo de Waart, Peter Schneider, Bertrand de Billy, Pinchas Steinberg, Theodor Guschlbauer, Christoph Prick, Gustav Kuhn and Semyon Bychkov.

Recordings include Alfred (Die Fledermaus) for Nightingale Classics, Stanislaus (Der Vogelhändler) for the Seefestspiele Mörbisch and Marchese Sebastianini (Der lustige Krieg). In 2012, Capriccio released an operetta aria CD, followed in 2022 by the solo CD Der Mensch denkt und Gott lenkt. He has been teaching singing to students at the Department of Voice and Musical Theatre since the winter semester of 2024.

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Translated with deepl.com-25.02.2026