Martin Mitterrutzner

Martin Mitterrutzner, who was born Hall in Tyrol, received his training with Brigitte Fassbaender. He gained his first stage experience at the age of ten as the First Boy in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” under John Eliot Gardiner. In 2007, at the age of only 23, he was awarded the Eberhard-Wächter Medal of the Vienna State Opera.

Early in his career, Martin Mitterrutzner was a member of the ensemble at the Tiroler Landestheater, later he joined the ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera, where he was able to sing a broad repertoire (e.g. Andres in Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck” and Iopas in Hector Berlioz’ “Les Troyens”). Since then, he has returned regularly as a guest to his former home theater, where he appeared as Camille de Rosillon in a new production of Franz Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” and as Grimoaldo in G.F. Handel’s “Rodelinda”, both directed by Claus Guth.

Guest engagements have taken him to the Theater an der Wien (as Narraboth in Richard Strauss’ “Salome” and Don Giovanni in Mozart’s “Don Ottavio”), the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Zurich Opera House (as Tamino in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”), the Salzburg Festival (i.a. as Brighella in Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos”), to the Bavarian State Opera (i.a. as Arbace in Mozart’s “Idomeneo”) and regularly to the Dresden Semperoper (i.a. as Belmonte in Mozart’s “Die Entführung aus dem Serail”).

In the 2022/23 season, Martin Mitterrutzner returns to the stages of the Semperoper Dresden and the Vienna Volksoper as Tamino. With Flamand in “Capriccio” by Richard Strauss, he will again make another role debut at Oper Frankfurt. The current season brings him again to the Cleveland Orchestra, twice to Vienna´s Musikverein, to the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin as well as to the NDR Elbphilharmonieorchester in Hamburg.

As a concert soloist, Martin Mitterrutzner has a broad repertoire ranging from J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel to works by Benjamin Britten and Sven David Sandström. He has already appeared with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under Jakub Hrůša, the Bavarian Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra as well as the Hessian State Orchestra under Marc Piollet, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano, the Concentus Musicus as well as the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst.

As a Lied singer, the tenor works regularly with pianist Gerold Huber, with whom he has appeared at the Frankfurt Opera, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Heidelberger Frühling, or regularly at London's Wigmore Hall and the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. In 2021, he formed a lied duo with the renowned classical guitarist Martin Wesely and together they released a new recording of Schubert's “Die schöne Müllerin”. Martin Mitterrutzner can be heard on various other recordings: In 2015, for example, Decca released the award-winning new recording of Leonardo Vinci's opera “Catone in Utica” conducted by Riccardo Minasi.