Gerard Schneider

Tenor

Gerard Schneider
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The Austrian / Australian tenor Gerard Schneider joined the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2018/19. During the 2025/26 season you can hear him singing three new roles: Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Macduff in Macbeth and the Man with a Donkey in Orff's Clever Woman. Last season he enjoyed great success singing an Uncle and Stranger in a new production of Reimann's L'invisible, Sinovi Ismailov in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Prince Juri in Tchaikovsky's Sorceress (get the DVD!). These were preceded by Leukippos (Daphne), Falsacappa & Léopold in new productions of Offenbach's The Bandits & Halévy's La Juive, the title role in Werther, 1st Armed Man (new Zauberflote), Vaudémont (role debut) in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, the King's son in Humperdinck's Königskinder and Shepherd in Szymanowski's King Roger, Lyonel in Flotow's Martha and the Duke in Rigoletto, a role he sang when making his debut at Theater Bonn in 2023. He returned to the Komische Oper Berlin and Wexford Festival for Lenski (Eugene Onegin) and Rinaldo (Armida), sang the Prince in Rusalka, a role he's much sought-after for, in Frankfurt, at Hessen's state opera in Wiesbaden, the Staatsoper in Hannover, Garsington Opera, the Edinburgh Festival and Tirol Festival in Erl, where he also sang lead roles in new productions of Königskinder and Mascagni's L'amico Fritz. He has performed at the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall and, in recital, the Met in New York. He made his debut at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart with the Duke in Rigoletto, sang Rodolfo in La Bohème at the Komische Oper Berlin, sang in Mozart and Salieri and the Tsar's Bride at Bard Music Festival and Nicias in Massenet's Thaïs at Minnesota Opera and performed at Washington Concert Opera, Welsh National Opera and the Wiesbaden May and Bregenz festivals. In 2014 he sang in Il trovatore with the Vienna Philharmonic while a member of the Salzburg Festival's Young Artist Programme. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and Juilliard School in New York.