Albert Pesendorfer

A native of Upper Austria, Albert Pesendorfer began the 2025/26 season with GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Hagen) at the Teatro Manzoni di Bologna and concluded the year with FIDELIO (Rocco) at the Vienna State Opera. Upcoming engagements include DER ROSENKAVALIER (Baron Ochs) at the Vienna Volksoper and DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, both at the Müpa Festival in Budapest and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he will also appear as Gurnemanz in PARSIFAL.

The preceding seasons were likewise strongly marked by Wagner: GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Hagen) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the Maifestspiele in Wiesbaden, TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (Marke) in Seville and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG (Veit Pogner) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, TANNHÄUSER (Landgraf) at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, DIE WALKÜRE (Hunding) at the Teatro Manzoni di Bologna, as well as MACBETH (Banquo) in Tokyo with the Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Myung-Whun Chung, DER ROSENKAVALIER (Baron Ochs), also in Tokyo, and Beethoven’s LEONORE in South Korea in June 2025.

Prior to this, he appeared, among others, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Pastor Baltzer / OCEANE, King Heinrich / LOHENGRIN, Rocco / FIDELIO, Count Waldner / ARABELLA) and in Vienna, both at the State Opera and the Volksoper, as Baron Ochs / DER ROSENKAVALIER, Hagen / GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG, Boris / BORIS GODUNOV and Daland / DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER.

Albert Pesendorfer studied voice and flute in Linz and Vienna. Permanent engagements took him to Theater Erfurt, the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, Staatsoper Hannover and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. His operatic repertoire comprises more than 70 roles, primarily in the German Wagner repertoire, including Hans Sachs, Veit Pogner, Landgraf Hermann, Gurnemanz, King Heinrich, King Marke, Fasolt, Hunding and Hagen, as well as in the Italian repertoire, including Filippo II, Zaccaria, Sparafucile and Banquo.

Guest engagements have taken the bass to renowned German and international opera houses in the major roles of his Fach, including Staatsoper Stuttgart, Oper Köln, Hamburg State Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, Zurich Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, the Vienna State Opera, Vienna Volksoper, Theater an der Wien, Tokyo National Opera, the Müpa Festival Budapest, and the Bregenz and Bayreuth Festivals. Concert appearances have taken him, among others, to the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Barbican Hall in London, as well as to Japan and the United States.

In the winter semester of 2015, Albert Pesendorfer also began teaching as Professor of Voice at the Berlin University of the Arts.