Jörg Schneider

Jörg Schneider (born 1969 ) is an Austrian operatic tenor.

Life Born in Wels, Schneider received his first musical training with the Vienna Boys' Choir and studied in Vienna with Elfriede Obrowsky. In 1995 he became an ensemble member at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden. In 2012/13 he sang David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and Belmonte in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Düsseldorf as well as Flamand in Capriccio at the Müpa Budapest. In 2014, Schneider sang Oskar in the world premiere of Tales from the Vienna Woods by HK Gruber (based on the same-named play by Ödön von Horváth) at the Bregenz Festival, a performance that was repeated at the Theater an der Wien. Schneider made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona as Leukippos in Daphne, and at the Vienna State Opera he made his role debut as Narraboth in Salome. Since January 2016 he has been the director of the "Friends of Operetta" concert series in St. Pölten. Since September 2016, he has been a singing teacher at the Prayner Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna. In summer 2018 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival, in summer 2019 in Glyndebourne.

Concerts Schneider's repertoire also includes the tenor parts in J. S. Bach's St John Passion''', Joseph Haydn's The Creation, Mozart's Requiem, Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Die erste Walpurgisnacht, R. Schumann's Dichterliebe, Verdi's Messa da Requiem and Berlioz's Te Deum. Schneider has made guest appearances at venues including the Dresden Philharmonic, Royal Albert Hall London, the Carnegie Hall New York, the Wiener Musikverein, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Brucknerhaus in Linz, Radio France and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.