Thomas Ebenstein
Biography
THOMAS EBENSTEIN was born in 1979 in Carinthia, and studied vocal arts at the Vienna University of Music under Helena Lazarska. From 2003 to 2012 the tenor was an ensemble member at the Komische Oper Berlin, and since the 2012/2013 season, he has been an ensemble member of the Wiener Staatsoper. Guest appearences have led him among others, to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Semperoper Dresden, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Grand Théatre de Genève, the Theater an der Wien, the Volksoper in Vienna, the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Philarmonie in Berlin, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Ruhrtriennale Bochum, the Wiener Festwochen, the Easter Festival in Salzburg, the Salzburg Festival, the Bergen International Festival, and to the Hong Kong Arts Festival. His repertoire includes such roles as Pedrillo, Vašek, Truffaldino, David, Narraboth, Alfred. He made his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in 2012 as Jack O'Brien and sang, among others, Tanzmeister, Steuermann, Andres, Valzacchi, Monostatos, Incroyable, Andrès/Cochenille/Frantz/Pitichinaccio, Guillot de Morfontaine, Tschekalinski, Caliban. Upcoming engagements will lead him – among others – as Junger Seemann under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle to the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/kuenstler/saengerinnen/Ebenstein.en.php
