The Austrian Baritone Adrian Eröd is a great favorite of public and press at his base, the Vienna State Opera, with his tremendous diversity.
His magnificent success as Sixtus Beckmesser in Wagner’s Meistersinger von Nürnberg with Christian Thielemann led to an invitation to sing the part at the Bayreuth Festival. Since that time he sang the role of Beckmesser also in Dresden, Zurich, Cologne, Leipzig, Tokyo, Amsterdam and at the Salzburg Easter Festival.
His performance of Loge in the Vienna State Opera production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold had attracted international attention and his creation of the role of Shylock in the World Premiere of André Tchaikovsky’s The Merchant of Venice at the Bregenz Festival was highly acclaimed.
Since his debut 2001 at the Vienna State Opera as Mercutio in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Adrian Eröd has been cast in such roles as Guglielmo, Conte Almaviva, Billy Budd, Pelléas, Eisenstein, Valentin (Faust), Albert (Werther), Olivier and the Count (Capriccio) as well as Prospero in the Austrian premiere of Thomas Adès’ The Tempest. The leading male role of Jason in Aribert Reimann’s Medea was written for him and he performed the world premiere.
He has also appeared at the Semperoper Dresden, the Berlin State Opera, the Teatro alla Scala Milano and the Teatro Fenice in Venice, at the Paris Opera, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Houston Grand Opera and the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, the Oper Frankfurt and the New National Opera Tokyo.
Following his education at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Vienna, where he was a student of Walter Berry, Adrian Eröd was engaged at the Landestheater Linz, then the Wiener Volksoper and finally the Vienna State Opera, which, alongside his forthcoming international engagements, will continue to be the central base in his artistic future.
He has appeared with Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic, with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, he performed Bach’s St.Matthew’s Passion with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony with Christian Thielemann, Orff’s Carmina Burana with Fabio Luisi and Alain Altinoglu, Brahms’ German Requiem with Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla and Helmut Rilling, Bach’s St.John’s Passion with Philippe Jordan, Mahler’s 8th Symphony with Andris Nelsons, Fauré’s Requiem with Myung-Whun Chung and Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Marek Janowski.
He has also appeared at the Suntory Hall Tokyo, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Philharmonie Berlin, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Auditorio Nacional Madrid, the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the Lucerne Festival, the Salzburg Easter Festival and Mozartwoche, the Styriarte Graz and the Beethoven Festival in Bonn.
He is particularly fond of Lied and has given recitals in the Vienna and the Graz Musikverein, the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the Lisztzentrum Raiding, the Tokyo Spring Festival and the Carinthian Summer.
He recorded Songs of Franz Liszt as well as Schubert’s Winterreise, and a new recital will appear shortly on CD.
