Daniel Schmutzhard

The Austrian baritone Daniel Schmutzhard studied at the Vienna University of Music under Ralf Döring. In 2005, he began an engagement with the Vienna Volksoper, later transferring to Frankfurt Opera. A freelance artist since 2018, he has made guest appearances in Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, and Amsterdam and at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals, the Schubertiade in Vorarlberg, and the Theater an der Wien. His repertoire includes the baritone roles in Mozart’s operas, Tchai-
kovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Wolfram in Tannhäuser, Rodrigo in Verdi’s Don Carlo, Marcello in La Bohème, Herr Fluth in Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, and such operetta roles as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus and the Chancellor in Moritz Eggert’s Die letzte Verschwörung. In concert, he has performed such works as the Haydn oratorios, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Schumann’s Scenes from Faust, Britten’s War Requiem, and Mahler’s orchestral songs.

July 2023