Biography

Mathias Hausmann has been a member of the ensemble at Oper Leipzig since the 2022/23 season, singing roles such as Amfortas (Parsifal), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde), Beckmesser (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Germont (La Traviata), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), Enrico Ashton (Lucia di Lammermoor), Orest (Elektra), Faninal (Der Rosenkavalier) among others. 

The baritone completed his vocal training in Graz, Vienna and London at the Royal College of Music, as well as at the National Opera Studio. His first engagement took him to the Graz Opera. From 2005-2009 he was a member of the ensemble at the Vienna Volksoper, then at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich.

He has made guest appearances at La Scala in Milan (Danilo-Die lustige Witwe and Morales-Carmen), Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (Danilo and Il Conte Almaviva-Le Nozze di Figaro), the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Bunka Kaikan Hall Tokyo, the Royal Opera in Copenhagen (Marcello-La bohème), Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Bavarian State Opera (Guglielmo-Così fan tutte), the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Bremen Theatre, Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Zürich Opera (Peter Besenbinder-Hänsel und Gretel), Deutsche Oper Berlin (Wolfram-Tannhäuser and Amfortas-Parsifal) as well as concerts at the Philharmonie in Munich, Cologne, Essen, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Luxembourg, Warsaw and the Gewandhaus Leipzig.

Mathias Hausmann has also sung at the Salzburg Festival, Edinburgh Festival, London Handel Festival, Ravinia Festival Chicago, Haydn Festival Eisenstadt, Wiener Festwochen and the Seefestspiele Mörbisch.

He has worked with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Gustavo Dudamel, Adam Fischer, Ton Koopman, Yannick Nézet-Seguin, Asher Fisch, Martin Haselböck, Christopher Hogwood and Helmuth Rilling and has given recitals in Vienna, New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Milan and London's Wigmore Hall.