Thomas Rettensteiner

Thomas Rettensteiner spent seven seasons at the Theater Hof after finishing his studies, moving from lyric parts into Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana, the title role of Nabucco, Scarpia and Don Pizarro. Born in Salzburg in 1976, he studied trombone, drama and voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Franz Donner, and song repertoire with Charles Spencer; while still a student he sang with the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg and the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro. Since September 2012 he has been a member of the Theater Vorpommern ensemble, where his roles include Rigoletto, Telramund in Lohengrin, both Figaros, the title role in Don Pasquale, Escamillo, Renato and Biterolf, and where he created the lawyer in the 2015 premiere of Bartleby – Eine Geschichte von der Wall Street. Alongside his conservatory training he read sociology at the University of Vienna, and his earliest stage work also included productions of the Opernwerkstatt Wien and opera piccola Wien. His Hof engagement began in 2005 and took in Donner in Das Rheingold, Marcello in La boheme, Herr Fluth in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor and the Tsar in Zar und Zimmermann. He sang in the premiere of Luther as well.