Markus Butter (born 1973)[1] is an Austrian operatic baritone.[2]

Career

Born in Bruck an der Mur, Butter was a member and soloist of the Vienna Boys' Choir from 1982 to 1986 and graduated in 1991 at the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster. He received his further education at the Johann-Joseph-Fux-Konservatorium Graz and from 1994 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.[3]

Also in 1994 he began to work as an oratorio and lieder singer in Austria and Germany. From 1998 to 1999 he was a member of the Junge Ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera and from 1999 he was a member of the Bavarian State Opera. Afterwards he moved to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and in 2005 to the Semperoper Dresden.

Guest performances led him to the Aalto-Theater in Essen (2014), to the Bregenzer Festspiele (2014) and several times to the Theater an der Wien (2010, 2011, 2015).[4][5]

Roles (selection)

  • 2014–2015: Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus), Semperoper
  • 2014–2015: Der Sprecher (The Magic Flute), Semperoper
  • 2014–2015: Rittmeister, Beichtvater (Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald by HK Gruber), Bregenzer Festspiele, Theater an der Wien
  • Flandrischer Deputierter (Don Carlo), Bavarian State Opera
  • Gerichtsdiener (Was ihr wollt), Bavarian State Opera
  • Hauptmann (Simon Boccanegra), Bavarian State Opera
  • Kuligin (Katja Kabanowa), Bavarian State Opera
  • Moralès (Carmen), Bavarian State Opera
  • Masetto (Don Giovanni), Theater an der Wien

Awards

  • 1997: 2nd prize at the international competition "Das Schubertlied" in Vienna
  • 2009: Christel-Goltz-Prize

References

  1. ↑ Den Intellekt fordern, Artikel in Kleine Zeitung, 19 February 2011, retrieved on 4 March 2019
  2. ↑ Markus Butter on Opera Musica
  3. ↑ Markus Butter on Oper Graz
  4. ↑ Markus Butter on neumarkter-konzertfreunde
  5. ↑ Markus Butter on JPc
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