Mathias Hausmann
The young Austrian baritone Mathias Hausmann has become widely recognized for a series of international TV, DVD, and CD productions from the Salzburg Festival, the Teatro alla Scala, and the Mörbisch Festival. From 2004 to 2009, he has been a member of the Volksoper in Vienna, where, within a very short time, he has become the darling of the audiences. He also considers Milan’s Teatro alla Scala a second artistic home where he was part of the prestigious opening night 2009 with Daniel Barenboim.
Hausmann studied with Karl Ernst Hoffmann in Graz, Walter Berry in Vienna, and Ryland Davies at the Royal College of Music in London. He also worked with singers such as Sir Thomas Allen, Cecilia Bartoli, Christa Ludwig, Thomas Quasthoff, Grace Bumbry, and Ileana Cotrubas. He is grateful to Thomas Hampson, from whom he gained many important artistic instincts.
His roles include Papageno, Guglielmo, and Conte Almaviva; Rossini’s Barbiere and Dandini; Marcello; Eisenstein; Dr. Falke; and Danilo. He was also heard in the Austrian debut performance of "Sophie’s Choice" with Angelika Kirschschlager. Mathias Hausmann frequently performs at festivals such as Salzburg and Edinburgh, the London Handel Festival, the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, Klangbogen and Osterklang Vienna, Styriarte, the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt, and the Festival Latour de France. He has performed at such venues as the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Théatre des Champs-Elysées; the Hollywood Bowl, the Bunka Kaikan Hall in Tokyo; the Danish Royal Opera House, the Teatro Teresa Careno in Caracas; the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, the opera houses of Antwerp, Gent, and Berne; the Wigmore Hall London; Gewandhaus Leipzig; Herkulessaal and Prinzregententheater Munich; at the Philharmonies in Luxembourg, Munich, Düsseldorf, Essen and Cologne; and the Vienna Statesopera, Konzerthaus, and Musikverein.
He has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, Stuttgart’s Bach Academy, the Symphonieorchester des BR, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, the Concerto Köln, the Haydn Philharmonie Eisenstadt, and the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg. Conductors with whom he has worked include Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Karel Mark Chichon, Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Adam Fischer, Asher Fisch, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Julia Jones, Ton Koopman, Yannik Nézet-Séguin, Hellmuth Rilling, and Sebastian Weigle.
Mathias' recent engagements include a concert at the Hollywood Bowl with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; Marcello in Puccini’s "La Bohème" at the Royal Opera House, Copenhagen; the title role in a new production of "Danton’s Tod" by Gottfried von Einem at the Museumsquartier Vienna, Haydn’s "Die Jahreszeiten" with Adam Fischer and the solo parts in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Handel’s Messiah with the Bachakademie Stuttgart and Helmuth Rilling.
His upcoming engagements include his debut at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (Danilo in a new production of Lehar’s "The Merry Widow"); followed by recitals with pianist Craig Rutenberg in New York City and with the prestigious Vocal Arts Society at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Guglielmo in Mozart’s "Così fan tutte" with the Bayrische Staatsoper München as well as at the Hong Kong Festvial; Mozarts c-minor Mass with Christopher Hogwood and two new productions and guest performances in Tokyo with the Volksoper Vienna.
His recital program, Songs of War, alongside Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave and pianist Julius Drake, will be presented internationally in 2012.
