Alexander Grassauer

Grassauer came up through Karlheinz Hanser's studio and Florian Boesch's lied class at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and the Austrian bass-baritone's early parts included Masetto, Figaro and the Speaker in Die Zauberflöte. Until 2024 he was an ensemble member at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, where Leporello, Don Basilio, Alidoro, Monterone and Frank came his way; in 2025 he sang Hermann Ortel and Melot at Bayreuth. At Operalia in Sofia in October 2025 he reached the final and took the Birgit Nilsson Prize, awarded there for Wagner and Strauss singing. Guest engagements have taken him to the Semperoper Dresden, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Wiener Kammeroper, and his concert repertoire runs from Bach and Handel to Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. He has been a prizewinner at the Hugo Wolf, International Brahms and Otto Edelmann competitions.