Markus Werba

Markus Werba (born 14 November 1973) is an Austrian baritone opera singer.

Biography Born in Hermagor Carinthia, Austria, Werba began his vocal training aged 16. He studied at the Conservatory of Klagenfurt and University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna with Ralf Doering, Robert Holl and Walter Berry. He has won numerous competitions for his singing in Austria, Italy, Japan, Slovakia and the UK. He was chosen as Guglielmo in 1997 (Così fan tutte) for the inauguration of the Nuovo Piccolo Teatro in Milan by Giorgio Strehler.

After his debut in Milan he sang in all major opera houses.

Operatic repertoire Werba appearing as Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the 2012 Salzburg Festival. Bellini Sir Riccardo Forth (I puritani)

Braunfels Wiedehopf (Die Vögel)

Britten Billy Budd (Billy Budd) Demetrius (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Cavalli Mercurio (La Calisto)

Debussy Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande)

Donizetti Don Alfonso (La favorita) Malatesta (Don Pasquale) Belcore (L'elisir d'amore) Lord Enrico Ashton (Lucia di Lammermoor)

Korngold Frank-Fritz (Die tote Stadt )

Lehàr Danilo (Die lustige Witwe)

Marschner Hans Heiling (Hans Heiling)

Massenet Athanaël (Thaïs)

Mozart Papageno (The Magic Flute) Guglielmo / Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte) Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni) Figaro / Il Conte (Le nozze di Figaro) Nardo (La finta giardiniera)

Rossini Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) Dandini (La Cenerentola)

Thomas Hamlet (Hamlet)

Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin)

Paisiello Giorgino (Il matrimonio inaspettato)

Puccini Marcello (La bohème)

Schubert Froila (Alfonso und Estrella)

Schumann Faust, Pater Seraphicus, Doctor Marianus (Szenen aus Goethes Faust)

J.Strauss Eisenstein, Falke (Die Fledermaus)

R.Strauss Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos) Olivier (Capriccio)

Verdi Marquis de Posa (Don Carlo) Ford (Falstaff)

Wagner Beckmesser (Die Meistersinger) Wolfram (Tannhäuser)

Concert and Lieder repertoire

CONCERT

Brahms Requiem

Bach Solobasskantaten "ich habe genug", Kreuzstabkantate Johannespassion Matthäuspassion

Fauré Requiem

Haydn Schöpfung

Mendelssohn Elias Paulus

Mozart Mass in C minor Krönungsmesse

Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

Orff Carmina Burana

Schubert Messe in C-Dur Messe in G-Dur

LIEDER

Brahms

Schubert

Schumann

Wolf

Discography DVDs Heinrich Marschner, Hans Heiling (M.Werba, A.C.Antonacci, H.Lippert, G.Fontana; regia P.L.Pizzi) aprile 2004 Cagliari, Teatro Lirico. Dynamic 33467/1-2 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, La finta giardiniera (Gens, Kučerová, Reinprecht, Donose, Ainsley, Graham-Hall, Werba, Ivor Bolton) 2006 Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg Franz Schubert, Alfonso und Estrella (Mei, Trost, Werba) Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Lirico di Cagliari Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Die Zauberflote. Bernard Richter, Julia Kleiter, Mandy Fredrich, Georg Zeppenfeld, Markus Werba, Elisabeth Schwarz, Concentus Musicus Wien / Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Sony 2 DVD Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Actors: Michael Volle, Georg Zeppenfeld, Markus Werba, Monika Bohinec, Roberto Saccà; conductor: Daniele Gatti, Vienna Philharmonic