Michael Roider

MICHAEL ROIDER was born in Salzburg and studied violin and vocal arts at the Mozarteum. Initially, he worked as a violinist but decided on a singer´s career in 1978. His first engagements were in Basel, Lucerne, as well as in Graz, where he for example sang Kudrjaš (Katja Kabanova), Max (Freischütz), Eisenstein (Fledermaus) and the title role in Der Graf von Luxemburg. Further performances led him to Berlin, Tokyo, Budapest, Salzburg, Karlsruhe, Bern, Zürich, Leipzig and to the Volksoper Wien. In 1995 he made his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper as Offizier (Ariadne auf Naxos), where he has performed e.g. in the leading role in Mozart’s Idomeneo, as Triquet, Hirt (Oedipe), Valzacchi (Der Rosenkavalier), Herodes (Salome), Hauptmann (Wozzeck), Maler (Lulu), Loge (Das Rheingold), Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro), Vere (Billy Budd), Spalanzani (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Bob Boles (Peter Grimes), Cajus (Falstaff), Aegisth (Elektra), Guillot (Manon), Altoum (Turandot), Schäbiger (Lady Macbeth von Mzensk), Kreon (Medea), Incroyable (Andrea Chénier), Trabuco (La forza del destino), Albert (Die tote Stadt) and Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus). In 2008 and 2009 he sang Mime in Budapest.