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Franz Grundheber | Prince | Baritone

Born in Trier, Franz Grundheber studied with Margaret Harshaw at Indiana University and began his career at the Hamburg State Opera. He has sung at most major opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, the Bolshoi, Tokyo, Arena di Verona, La Scala, Milan, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris (Bastille, Le Châtelet), Covent Garden, London, Dresden, Berlin (State Opera, Deutsche Oper), Munich, and the Salzburg Festival. He is Kammersänger at the Hamburg State Opera and Vienna State Opera, where he has centred his work for the past decade. His repertory includes Macbeth, Iago, Rigoletto, Amonasro, Scarpia, Simon Boccanegra, Wozzeck, Dr Schön, Schigolch, Moses, Cardillac, Borromeo, Mandryka, Orest, Jochanaan, Strauss’s Jupiter, Barak, Amfortas, and the Flying Dutchman. He has recorded extensively, including Beethoven’s 9th (Karajan), Wozzeck (Abbado, Barenboim), Mandryka (Tate), Barak (Sinopoli), Humperdinck’s Father (Colin Davis), Orest (Bychkov) and Jupiter. In 2008, his CD Lieder einer Reise was released in Salzburg.