From the season 2008 he also sings as a guest solist Sharpless, Sprecher, Falke, Papageno at the Volksoper Wien.
Education:
Born and raised in Vienna Clemens Unterreiner also spent his childhood in Graz and Budapest. After he completed his school at the Academic High School he commenced studying law at the University of Vienna. During his studies, he began to train his voice and to deepen his knowledge in music theory and musicology. Since 1998 he started singing lessons among others with Prof. KS Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Prof. KS. Gottfried Hornik, Prof. Helena Lazarska and KS. Wicus Slabbert (KS = singer of outstanding merit), He participated in master classes with Prof. KS. Bernd Weikl, KS. Artur Korn and Prof. KS. Gottfried Hornik. During the year 2000 he was awarded a Bayreuth Festival Scholarship and in 2002 he was a semifinalist at the International Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna. His extensive repertory includes lyric italian, german and french chivalrous and heroic baritone parts, operetta as well as a wide range of art song repertory including Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Brahms, Wolf and many more, but also contemporary works of various composers.
Career:
He started his carreer at the annual Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) and performed in concert tours in Bulgaria, Syria, Italy, Spain and Germany. He performed at the Grand Hall of the Wiener Musikverein, at the Vienna Concert House (Wiener Konzerthaus), Palao de la Musica Barcelona and other international concert halls. He sang concert performances of "La Traviata" - Germont, "Fidelio" - Pizarro and "Tosca" - Scarpia and in October 2002 he made his opera debut at the State Theatre in Linz for the European première of "The Voyage" by Philip Glass. During the summer of 2003 he sang Count Baccellone in "La Contessina". Further engagements took him 2004 at the Vienna State Opera where he performed in the première of Massenet’s "Werther". He sang Sharpless in "Madama Butterfly" in Chur, Straßburg and Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg which was awarded the Prize of the Music Theatre 2004 season. During the summer of 2005 he sang the title role in Don Giovanni at the Heidenheim Opera Festival in Germany and Bartolo in Paisiello's "Barber of Seville". On September 4th 2005 he had his house debut in Puccini´s "Manon Lescaut" where he started his carreer a soloist and ensemble member of the Vienna State Opera. In 2006 he sang Hermann, Schlemihl and Crespél in "The Tales of Hoffmann" and Don Parmenione in Rossini´s "L´occasione fa il ladro". 2007 he was heard as Don Fernando - Minister in "Fidelio" and celebrated with great success his debut as Guglielmo in "Cosi fan tutte". In 2008 he was guest soloist at the Opera Festival of Steyr, where he celebrated as Consul Sharpless in Puccini's Madama Butterfly a great successes. In fall 2008 he debuted with great success also as Consul Sharpless (Italian original version) at the Vienna Volksoper and was listening to since then there as a guest soloist in Carmen, Magic Flute, Rusalka and The Bat. In 2009 he sang with great success Papageno and made his debut as a celebrated Sulpice in the premiere of "La fille du régiment". In 2010 he celebrated as Donner a successful home debut in "Rheingold" at the Wagner - Festival Budapest and sang 2011 a very successful debut at the Royal Opera Copenhagen as Sharpless (Madama Butterfly). In 2012, he sang his house debut as Melot at the Opera House in Nice and made his debut at the Salzburg Festival. He debuted further in the new production of the Vienna State Opera, Gluck's Alceste as high priest / god of the underworld. 2013 he celebrated a brilliant success as Papageno in Mozart's Magic Flute at the Opera de Nice and a highly acclaimed Wolfram in Wagner's Tannhäuser. He also sang back its popular Vienna Faninal at the Vienna State Opera. In April 2013, he opened a Faninal at the gala performance of Rosenkavalier the new opera house in Linz. He sang at the State Opera the new production of Puccini's "La Fanciulla del West" and celebrated in the lead role of the mayor considerable success in the world premiere of the children's opera "Das Städchen Drumherum".
News:
In the current season Clemens Unterreiner will be heard in addition to its myriad of repertoire roles in the first baritone roles. So he will sing Gunther (Götterdämmerung), Donner (Rheingold), Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Faninal (Rosenkavalier), Herald (Lohengrin), Don Fernando (Fidelio) and Papageno (Die Zauberflöte). Further there are 2014 New Year bat as Dr. Falke, the debut as a music teacher in Ariadne auf Naxos, his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York, his debut as Telramund in Wagner's Lohengrin and a recital at Vienna's Musikverein on the program .
2015 he will sing among others, the New Year's bat at the Vienna State Opera, Faninal at the Easter Festival Baden-Baden, the Brahms Requiem in Vienna's Musikverein, Mahler´s Songs of a Wayfarer with the Berlin Philharmonic (Scharoun Ensemble), Faninal at the Stateopera Tokyo and many other repertoire performances.
