Liviu Holender
Baritone
© Barbara Aumüller
Liviu Holender joined the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2019/20, making his house debut singing Leone in a new production of Tamerlano in the Bockenheimer Depot. He started the 2023/24 season off singing his first Malatestas in a new production of Donizetti's Don Pasquale, which is followed by Hans in a new production of Zemlinsky's George the Dreamer and Moaralés / Dancaïro in Carmen. Other roles for the company in recent seasons have included the Helmsman in a new Tristan und Isolde, Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Marullo in Rigoletto, Henrik (role debut) in a new production of Nielsen's Maskerade, Marco in Gianni Schicchi and, last season, Olivier (role debut) in Strauss Capriccio, Peter (the Father) in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Der Graf in Schreker's Der ferne Klang / The Elusive Sound and Sharpless in Puccini's Madama Butterfly. He also sang Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus at the Teatro Felice Genua and Musikverein in Graz, a role with which he recently made his debut in Italy at the Teatro Maggio Musicale in Florence, which was followed by Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos. Other recent engagements have included Silvano (Un ballo in maschera) at La Scala Milan and the Herald (Lohengrin) at the Tokyo Spring Festival under Marek Janowski. Future plans include his debut at the Romanian National Opera Cluj, singing Marcello in La Bohème, the Brahms Requiem in the Musikverein in Vienna and Schaunard (La Bohème) at the Tokyo Spring Festival. This Austrian musician was a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich for two years, during which time roles included Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Schaunard (La Bohème), Oberjustizrat Hasentreffer (Henze's Der junge Lord / The Young Lord) and Hans Scholl in Zimmermann's Die Weiße Rose / The White Rose. He sang Papageno in a Zauberflöte for children while a member of the Salzburg Festival's 2018 Young Singers Project and his first Marullo in a new production of Rigoletto at the 2019 Bregenz Festival. He sang Silvio (Pagliacci) and Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) at the National Opera in Bucharest and in My Fair Lady at the Volksoper in Vienna. He is a busy recitalist who joined Thomas Hampson's Lied Academy at the Heidelberg Spring Festival in 2020 and appeared in recital at the Schubertiade in Hohenems and Philharmonie de Paris. He sings Jesus in the St. Matthew Passion with the Vienna Philharmonic under Franz Welser Möst in 2023