There are very few young singers with such an artistic range at their disposal to match that of Austria's Mathias Hausmann. Ever since his debut at the Mörbisch festival in the summer of 2005 as Danilo in Franz Lehár's "The Merry Widow", both public and press have been aware of this young baritone's versatility and artistic charisma.
Mathias Hausmann studied singing with Karl Ernst Hoffmann in Graz, in the song class of Walter Berry in Vienna and – after gaining a scholarship from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden – studied with Ryland Davies at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School of the Royal College of Music in London. He is grateful, too, to his mentor Thomas Hampson from whom he gained important artistic impulses.
In the summer of 2000 he gave his opera debut as Sultan in Haydn's "L'incontro improviso" at the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt and at the EXPO in Hanover under Adam Fischer. Since the 2004/2005 season Mathias Hausmann has been a member of the ensemble at the Volksoper in Vienna where, within a very short time, he has become the darling of the public. He can regularly be seen in numerous and widely different roles on the stage of this Viennese theatre whose tradition goes back a very long time. His roles include: Papageno and Figaro-Graf, Dr. Falke, Danilo and Graf Homonay ("The Gypsy Baron"). He can also be heard in the Austrian debut performance of "Sophie's Choice" with Angelika Kirschschlager and the new productions of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Die Ausflüge des Herrn Broucek" and "Die Spanische Stunde".
Besides that, Mathias Hausmann has been invited to perform at many international festivals, such as the London Handel Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, Klangbogen in Vienna, the Spring Festival of the Wiener Musikverein, the Styriarte in Graz, and the Festival Latour de France. He was presented by Christa Ludwig in London's Wigmore Hall and has given concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Stuttgart's Bach Academy under Hellmuth Rilling. Last season Mathias Hausmann gave his debut at the opera houses of Antwerp and Berne and he sang recitals in New York, Washington and Gibraltar. He sang as well solo roles in Haydn's "The Seasons" conducted by Jordi Savall , and in Handel's "Messiah" conducted by Adam Fischer. In 2007 he will start out on an extensive tour in Japan with the Viennese Volksoper.
Although still a young artist, his career is already documented by many CD recordings, DVDs and television recordings. |
