Rainer Trost

Rainer Trost (born on October 30, 1966) is a German tenor whose performance repertoire encompasses operas, operettas, Lieder and oratorios. He is known for roles in Mozart operas. He is also a voice teacher at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Life Trost spent his childhood and youth in Stuttgart where he was born. In his home town, he was a member of the Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben for many years. Subsequently, Trost was an ensemble member of the Staatsoper Hannover until 1995.

In 1992, Trost launched his international career as Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte with conductor John Eliot Gardiner in Paris This performance was recorded live and released on the Deutsche Grammophon label. A Guardian review wrote: "few tenors on disc can rival the German Rainer Trost in the heady beauty of his voice – above all in Ferrando's aria Una aura amorosa." Vienna, Geneva, Berlin, Brussels, Cologne, Barcelona, the Metropolitan Opera, at the Salzburg Festival and the Edinburgh Festival, at the Maggio Musicale in Florence Since 1 March 2021, he has been the deputy director of the Institute for Singing and Music Theater at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Recordings Trost recorded several operas, but also lieder, including a 2007 collection of Schubert songs with pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr. A reviewer noted that he was a "rather powerful singer but also an elegant and sensitive one. His voice has bite and character."

DVDs Richard Strauss: Capriccio (with Renée Fleming and Anne Sofie von Otter) Lehár: Der Graf von Luxemburg (with Juliane Banse) Mozart: Così fan tutte (with Amanda Roocroft, Rod Gilfry, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner)

CDs Bach: Bach-Kantaten in Berlin – 1000. Veranstaltung (BWV 11, live recording May 1998) Mozart: La clemenza di Tito. Deutsche Grammophon Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin. Nightingale