German tenor Mathias Frey was born in Munich and studied at the Conservatory in Vienna. Other teachers have included Rainer Trost and Renata Scotto at the Opera Studio of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He has also attended masterclasses with Angelika Kirchschlager, Roman Trekel and Michael Schade. Since 2010 he has worked with Wolfgang Müller-Lorenz.
Mathias Frey has sung numerous lyric tenor roles. Among them are Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Fenton (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) and Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), but it is in Mozart’s major tenor roles that he has made the greatest impression, notably as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Belmonte and Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and Ferrando (Così fan tutte). Additionally he has often been heard in works by 20th-century composers, including Berg, Korngold, Stravinsky, Menotti, Orff and Glass.
Guest engagements have taken him to the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar in Venezuela, the Orchestra Kanazawa in Japan, the Theater an der Wien, the Augsburg Theatre and the Landesbühnen Sachsen as well as festivals in Austria and abroad.
Mathias Frey was for three years a member of the Hof Theatre before spending a year at the Klagenfurt Stadttheater, where he was heard as Tamino, Pedrillo, Cassio (Otello) and Narraboth (Salome). During the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons he is a member of the Linz Landestheater. He is making his Salzburg Festival debut as the Second Jew in Salome.
Current as of July 2018
