Bass

Benoît / Alcindoro

(xx., xx., xx., xx., xx. Juli)

Marcus Pelz studied solo voice, art song and oratorio, classical operetta, and early music at the Vienna Conservatory and graduated from the opera school at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. His first engagement took him to the Landestheater St. Pölten. From 1995 to 1997, the singer performed at the Vienna Chamber Opera, after which he was engaged by the Neue Oper Wien. Since 1999, Marcus Pelz has been a member of the Vienna State Opera ensemble. There, he primarily sings small and medium-sized roles, mostly in the character-role repertoire. His repertoire includes more than a hundred roles—Cola, Antonio, Masetto, the Second Priest, and the Narrator in works by Mozart; Cecco del Vecchio, Reinmar von Zweter, Kothner, Hermann Ortel, and Konrad Nachtigall; the Steersman (Tristan and Isolde) and the Second Knight of the Grail in works by Richard Wagner; Sire di Béthune, the Surgeon, Baron Duphol, the Count of Ceprano, and Marullo; Christian and Samuel/Count Horn/Hastings in works by Giuseppe Verdi; the Innkeeper and the Sergeant, Schaunard, Benoît, and Alcindoro; Sciarrone and Cesare Angelotti, Sagrestano, Imperial Commissioner, Larkens, Amantio di Nicolao in works by Giacomo Puccini, First Soldier, First and Second Nazarene, Old Servant and Orest’s Caretaker, Notary and Police Commissioner, Footman, One-Armed Man, Count Lamoral, Chamberlain (Capriccio), 1st Shepherd in Richard Strauss’s opera, as well as in numerous works by Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini; furthermore, Morales in Carmen, Hermann, Luther, and Schlémil in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, and Saretzki in Eugene Onegin. His comedic talent shines in roles such as Hortensius in La fille du régiment. His performances in children’s operas are extremely popular with young audiences. .... .. . . .. .

He made a guest appearance in the title role of Berg’s Wozzeck at the Teatro Avenida in Buenos Aires and was part of the cast of Der Rosenkavalier at the 2012 Maggio Musicale in Florence. Other guest appearances have taken the singer to the Vienna Volksoper, the Linz Landestheater, the Altenburg Abbey, and the Opera at Gars am Kamp Castle. In 2013, he performed with the Vienna State Opera ensemble at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg in a concert performance of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. Other guest appearances with the Vienna State Opera took him to Amsterdam, Bucharest, Shanghai, Seoul, Singapore, Sofia, Taipei, Valencia, and various cities in Japan. During the Vienna State Opera’s New York tour at Carnegie Hall, he sang in Salome and Wozzeck. On these tours, he was conducted by Seiji Ozawa, Ulf Schirmer, Giuseppe Sinopoli, and Franz Welser-Möst. Marcus Pelz is also a sought-after concert singer. He has performed and continues to perform the bass solos in numerous sacred works by Bach, Mozart, and Haydn, as well as in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Elias. He has made guest appearances at the Bruckner Festival in Linz, the Handel Festival in Halle, and at concerts in Germany, Brazil, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Spain, and Thailand. He also gives recitals.