Anthony Robin Schneider

The Austrian-New Zealand bass Anthony Robin Schneider was a member of the ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera from 2019 to 2024, appearing in roles including the title role of Handel’s Hercules, King Heinrich (Lohengrin), Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro), the Grand Inquisitor (Don Carlo) and Sparafucile (Rigoletto).

From 2021 to 2024 he sang Fafner (Das Rheingold, Siegfried) and Hunding (Die Walküre) in Brigitte Fassbaender’s production of Wagner’s Ring cycle at the Tyrolean Festival Erl, where in 2023 he also appeared in Bruckner’s Te Deum and Rossini’s Stabat Mater.

Other guest engagements in recent seasons have included Fafner (Das Rheingold) at the Braunschweig State Theatre, Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) at the Semperoper Dresden and the Houston Grand Opera, King Heinrich under Lorenzo Viotti at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam and Orest’s Tutor (Elektra) with the Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko in Baden-Baden and Berlin.

He has also sung Ghost of Hector (Les Troyens) in David McVicar’s production at the Vienna State Opera, Truffaldino (Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Santa Fe Opera and with the Cleveland Orchestra and Doctor (Wozzeck) with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in summer 2025 as Solyony in Eötvös’s Tri Sestri (Three Sisters).

In concert he has sung in Mozart’s Requiem with the Cleveland Orchestra, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Haydn’s The Creation with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester and Verdi’s Requiem with the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Viotti.

Engagements in the 2025/26 season included Méphistophélès in a concert performance of Gounod’s Faust at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Sarastro at the Semperoper Dresden and at Theater Basel, Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Dutch National Opera, King Heinrich at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and Tiresias in a concert performance of Oedipus Rex in Bolzano. He also sang in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with the Staatskapelle Halle and the Konzertchor Leipzig in Pisa, in Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Monteverdi Choir in London and in Verdi’s Requiem at the Dresden Music Festival.