Matthias Stier
Tenor Matthias Stier, born in St. Gallen (Switzerland), studied at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Turin and attended masterclasses with Elio
Battaglia at the Mozarteum Salzburg Summer Academy. He has won numerous international singing competitions.
From 2011 to 2019, he was a member of the ensemble at Staatstheater Braunschweig, where his roles included Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Fenton in Falstaff, Adam in Carl Zeller's Der Vogelhändler, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Alfredo in La traviata and Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore.
He has been a member of the Leipzig Opera ensemble since the 2019/20 season, where he has made a name for himself with his Mozart interpretations in particular. However, his broad repertoire also includes roles such as Nemorino, Cassio in Otello, Alfredo in La traviata, Narraboth in Salome, Ritter Hugo in Lortzing's Undine, Melot in Tristan und Isolde, Baroncelli in Rienzi and Antonio in Das Liebesverbot. In the current season, he is making his debut in the title role in the new production of the opera Amadis de Gaules by Johann Christian Bach.
Guest appearances have taken the artist to the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Teatro Regio in Turin and the Ravenna Festival, among others. As a concert singer, he made several guest appearances at the Settembre Musica festival MITO in Turin and performed Dvořák's Requiem in Istanbul, Puccini's Missa di Gloria and Haydn's Creation in Bern, the world premiere of Andrea Portera's Tagete e la terra dell'arcobaleno at the Stresa Festival and Schubert's Mass in E flat major in Florence. He has also sung recitals in Turin, Treviso, Moscow, Rouen and Dresden.
One of the highlights of his career will be his debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2025 in the role of David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
The tenor regularly works with renowned conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Zubin Mehta, Gianandrea Noseda, Axel Kober, Alexander Joel, Ulf Schirmer, Christoph Gedschold, Andrea Battistoni and Daniele Rustioni, Iván López Reynoso, as well as directors such as Brigitte Fassbaender, Lotte de Beer, Damiano Michieletto, Roland Schwab, Rolando Villazon, Dietrich Hillsdorf, David Pountney, Davide Livermore and Walter Sutcliff.
Matthias Stier has recorded the opera Der schlimm-heilige Vitalis by Richard Flury for the label Toccataclassics.
Engagements in Bayreuth
| Year | Opera | Part |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | David, Sachsens Lehrbube |
