Martin Gantner

Birthplace:
Freiburg, Germany

Studies:
Singing at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe

Prizes:
Appointment as Kammersänger (Bayerische Staatsoper München, 2005)

Important parts:
Telramund (Lohengrin), Beckmesser (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Amfortas (Parsifal), Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Kaiser Overall (Der Kaiser von Atlantis), Diktator (Der Diktator), Cardillac (Cardillac), Jochanaan (Salome), Pizarro (Fidelio), Faninal (Der Rosenkavalier), Posa (Don Carlo), Il Conte d‘Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), Barak (Die Frau ohne Schatten), et al.

Stages:
Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Teatro alla Scala Mailand, Opéra Bastille, Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera Company, Opernhaus Zürich, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, New National Theatre Tokyo, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayreuth Festival, Salzburg Festival, et al.

Cooperation with directors:
David Alden, Andreas Homoki, Arpad Schilling, Herbert Wernicke, Maximilian Schell, Martin Kusej, David Pountney, Tim Albery, Jossi Wieler, David Herrmann, Claus Guth, et al.

Cooperation with conductors:
Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann, Kent Nagano, Semyon Bychkov, James Conlon, Peter Schneider, Fabio Luisi, Gianandrea Noseda, Bertrand de Billy, Philippe Jordan, Bernard Haitink, Kirill Petrenko, Simone Young, Daniel Barenboim, et al.