Attilio Glaser
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Italian-German tenor Attilio Glaser is increasingly establishing himself as one of the most sought-after tenors in his repertoire. In the current 2024/25 season, he can be experienced in the title role of Mozart’s Idomeneo in Stefan Herheim’s new production for the reopening of the Theater an der Wien, as Macduff in the new production of Macbeth at Deutsche Oper Berlin, in his house and role debut as Hoffmann in the new production of Les contes d’Hoffmann at the Opéra national du Rhin, in his house debut as Don José (Carmen) at La Monnaie in Brussels, as well as in further roles such as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Rodolfo (La bohème), Lohengrin, Alfredo (La traviata) and with his role debut as Erik (Der fliegende Holländer) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Attilio Glaser is member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he left strong impressions as Don José (Carmen), Rodolfo, tenor solo in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Ismaele (Nabucco), Alfredo, Duca (Rigoletto), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) Tamino, Narraboth (Salome), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Froh (Das Rheingold) and Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser). In the 2022/23 season he had his acclaimed debuts as Adorno in the new production of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra and in the title role of Wagner’s Lohengrin.
In addition to his engagements at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, he was guest at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan as Narraboth and Da-Ud (Die ägyptische Helena), at the Edinburgh International Festival as Walther von der Vogelweide, at the Hamburg State Opera as Ismaele and Adorno, at the Vienna State Opera as Duca, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice as Alfredo, at the Tyrolean State Theater Innsbruck as Rodolfo, at the at the Nationaltheater Weimar and State Opera Stuttgart Don José (Carmen), at Dutch National Opera as Walther von der Vogelweide and Narraboth, at Oper Frankfurt and Bühnen Bern as Idomeneo and Fenton in Nicolai’s Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor at the Opéra de Lausanne. For his role debut in the title role of Massenet’s Werther in Klagenfurt, he was nominated for Best Male Lead at the Austrian Music Theater Award in 2019 and has since sung the role as well at Oper Frankfurt and Oper Zürich. In 2021 Attilio Glaser made his debut as Steuermann in the new production of Der fliegende Holländer at the 2021 Bayreuth Festival and immediately received a re-invitation for the 2022 Festival, where he took on Froh in the Ring new production, Walther von der Vogelweide and again Steuermann. He was also heard as Steuermann and Froh at the 2023 Festival.
Furthermore, the artist devotes himself intensively to concert singing: with Bach’s Mass in B minor and Christmas Oratorio, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and Symphony N° 9, Dvořáks Requiem and Stabat Mater, Gounod’s Cäcilienmesse, Händel’s Judas Maccabaeus, Messiah and Saul, Haydn’s The Creation, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Lobgesang and Paulus, Mahler’s Das klagende Lied and Das Lied von der Erde, Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor and Requiem, Saint-Saën’s Oratorio de Noël and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. Attilio Glaser has been a soloist at the Beijing Music Festival, Bergamo Musica Festival, Festival Beethoven 30° Aniversario del Palau de la Música in Valencia, Holland Festival, Max Reger Musiktage, Bruckner International Festival Linz, Mahler Festival Leipzig, Rheingau Musik Festival and the Salzburg Easter Festival.
Highlights of recent seasons include Mahler’s Das klagende Lied with the MDR Symphony Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies at the Mahler Festival at the Gewandhaus Leipzig, Mahler’s Lied von der Erde with the Stuttgart Philharmonic and Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, both under the baton of Dan Ettinger, Giuseppe Verdi’s Missa di Requiem at the Alte Oper Frankfurt with the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra under the baton of Thomas Guggeis, Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with the LA Philharmonic under the baton of Zubin Mehta.
He has been invited by orchestras such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, Münchener Kammerorchester, Filarmonica della Scala, LA Philharmonic, Orchestra Filarmonica del Gran Teatro La Fenice, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orquesta de Valencia, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, HR Sinfonierorchester Frankfurt, MDR Symphony Orchestra, Bruckner Orchester Linz, as well as the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, and worked with conductors such as Alain Altinoglu, Andrea Battistoni, Łukasz Borowicz, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniele Gatti, Thomas Guggeis, Alexander Liebreich, Oksana Lyniv, Zubin Mehta, Franz Welser-Möst, Markus Poschner, Ivan Repušić, Ainārs Rubiķis, Donald Runnicles, Markus Stenz, Sir Jeffrey Tate, Christian Thielemann, Lorenzo Viotti and others.
September 2024 – For the most recent biography please contact Iris Jedamski