Jörg Schneider

The Austrian tenor Jörg Schneider was a member of the ensemble of the Vienna Volksoper for ten years, before joining the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera in 2017. In the 2024/25 season he has appeared there in roles including Herod (Salome), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Beppo /Arlecchino (Pagliacci) and Iro and Human Frailty (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria).

Recent guest engagements have included Pygmalion in Suppè’s Die schöne Galathée and Soliman in Mozart’s Zaide at the Prinzregententheater in Munich, Mime in a concert performance of Wagner’s Ring under Marek Janowski in Dresden, Iro at the Opéra Royal in Versailles and at Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Mime (Das Rheingold) at the Hamburg State Opera. He has also performed on a concert tour under René Jacobs and appeared as Monsieur Taupe in concert performances of Capriccio under Christian Thielemann at the 2024 Salzburg Festival.

In addition, he has sung Leukippos (Daphne) at the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Narraboth (Salome) at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Dancing Master (Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Bavarian State Opera, David (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) in Tokyo, Flamand (Capriccio) at Müpa in Budapest and the Italian Singer (Capriccio) at the Theater an der Wien.

Other guest engagements have taken him to La Scala, Milan, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Semperoper Dresden, the Stuttgart State Opera, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Zurich Opera House, the opera houses of Rome, Catania, Parma, Florence, Turin, Verona, Cagliari, Palermo and Ferrara, to the Mörbisch Lake Festival and the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus and to Tokyo and Hong Kong.

As a concert singer Jörg Schneider has appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the Philharmonie in Dresden and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

His discography includes recordings of Die Fledermaus (Alfred), Der Vogelhändler (Stanislaus) and Der lustige Krieg (Sebastiano). In 2012 he released an album of operetta arias for the label Capriccio, and in 2022 he released the solo CD Der Mensch denkt und Gott lenkt.