Matthäus Schmidlechner

Since Sep­tem­ber 2024, the Salzburg-born te­nor has been a mem­ber of the Vienna State Opera en­sem­ble, where he made his ac­claimed de­but as Mime (Der Ring des Nibelungen) in 2023. Since then, he has ap­peared at the Vienna State Opera in roles such as Herod (Salome), Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte), Goro (Madama Butterfly), Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), and Hauk-Šendorf (Věc Makropulos). In May 2026, he also made a highly suc­cess­ful role de­but as Loge (Das Rheingold). Dur­ing the 2026/27 sea­son, he is sched­uled to ap­pear as Vašek (The Bartered Bride), Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Prince, Marquis and Valet (Lulu), Valzacchi (Der Rosenkavalier), and Scaramuccio (Ariadne auf Naxos), among oth­er roles.

Af­ter stud­y­ing at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz with William Mason, Thomas Kerbl, and Kurt Azesberger, he was a mem­ber of the en­sem­ble of the Landestheater Linz from 2007 to 2024. There, he per­formed nu­mer­ous ma­jor roles with­in his Fach and won ac­claim as an ex­pres­sive and ver­sa­tile sing­er and ac­tor.

Guest en­gage­ments have taken him to the Opéra national de Paris, La Scala in Milan, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and re­peat­ed­ly to the Salzburg Festival.

In ad­di­tion to his op­er­at­ic per­for­man­ces, Matthäus Schmidlechner is also a reg­u­lar pres­ence on the con­cert stage. His rep­er­toire in­cludes, among oth­er works, Bach’s Pas­sions, Haydn’s or­a­to­rios, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Bruckner’s Te Deum.