Jörg Schneider

Austrian tenor Jörg Schneider has been a member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera since September 2017. Prior to this, he spent ten years as a principal artist with the Vienna Volksoper, where he built an extensive repertoire in opera and operetta and established himself as a versatile character tenor.

At the Vienna State Opera he has appeared in a wide range of productions, including Iro in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, as well as works such as Wozzeck, Salome, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Pagliacci. In the 2023/24 season he performs in the new production of Puccini’s Turandot. A major upcoming milestone is his role debut as Florestan in Beethoven’s Fidelio, scheduled for January 2024 in Bari, Italy.

Schneider gained further international attention with concert performances of both Mime roles from Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen, presented in Dresden in autumn 2022 under Marek Janowski. In 2022 he also made his role debut as the Captain in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck and as Mime in Wagner’s Siegfried, followed by his Vienna State Opera house debut as Mime in Das Rheingold. He had previously debuted as Mime in Das Rheingold at the Hamburg State Opera in 2018.

In the field of operetta, Schneider appeared in summer 2023 as Sou-Chong in Lehár’s Das Land des Lächelns at the Open Air Operetta Festival in Langenlois. Further engagements have taken him to the Prinzregententheater in Munich, where he appeared in a radio broadcast as Pygmalion in Suppé’s Die schöne Galathee in 2022, and as Sultan Soliman in Mozart’s Zaide.

His career has brought him to major opera houses and festivals internationally, including the Salzburg Festival, Glyndebourne, Teatro alla Scala di Milano, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Real Madrid, the Semperoper Dresden, Stuttgart State Opera, Zurich Opera House, and numerous theatres throughout Italy, including Rome, Florence, Turin, Verona, Palermo and Parma. He has also appeared in Tokyo and Hong Kong.

As a concert artist, Jörg Schneider has performed at venues such as the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Royal Albert Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Radio France, and the Dresden Philharmonie. His concert repertoire includes works such as Haydn’s The Creation, Bach’s St John Passion, Mozart’s Requiem, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, and Mendelssohn’s Walpurgis Night.

He has collaborated with conductors including Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Christian Thielemann, Semyon Bychkov, Dennis Russell Davies, and Bertrand de Billy. Alongside his stage career, Schneider is also active as a vocal teacher. He taught at the Prayner Conservatory in Vienna and has been teaching at the Franz Schubert Conservatory since 2020. Since 2022 he has also held a teaching position at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw).

Born in Wels, he received his first musical training as a member of the Vienna Boys’ Choir and later studied in Vienna with Prof. Elfriede Obrowsky. His recordings include, among others, Alfred in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus for Nightingale Classics.