AWARD-WINNING CONCERT 2023 with MICHAEL NAGL, Bass

In the summer of 2016, the young artist completed his vocal studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in the class of Professor Karlheinz Hanser. The bass-baritone made his successful stage debut in March 2014 at the Schönbrunn Palace Theatre as Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte. He made his professional debut at the Baden City
Theatre as the Second Armored Man and Leporello. During his studies, Michael Nagl could be seen at the Schönbrunn Palace Theatre as roles such as Masetto, Leporello, and Simone in Gianni Schicchi. In the summer of 2014, he won the prize for best up-and-coming singer at the Otto Edelmann Singing Competition. In 2015, he was awarded the Gottlob Frick Medal at
the Gottlob Frick Society's annual artists'meeting. In the summer of 2022, he made his Salzburg Festival debut as Papageno in The Magic Flute. 

Michael Nagl is a member of the Stuttgart State Opera ensemble, where in the 2022/23 season he appeared as Leporello in Don Giovanni, Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro, Basilio in The Barber of Seville, and in the bass part of a staged production of the St. John Passion, among other roles. Born in Vienna in 1995, he has enjoyed success in recent years with his debuts at the Paris Opéra National as the First Priest and the Second Armored Man in The Magic Flute, at the Bregenz Festival as Donner in Das Rheingold, at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg as Leporello, and at the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy as Papageno. He made his debut at the Dresden Semperoper as Conte di Cepreano in Rigoletto, and with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky's Pulcinella at the Berlin Philharmonie.

With the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, he sang the roles of Polydor and Père de famille in Berlioz L'enfance du Christ at Cologne Cathedral, and Michael Nagl made his debut at the Vienna Musikverein in Bach's Christmas Oratorio. His debut at La Scala in Milan as the Fifth Jew in Salome under Riccardo Chailly in a new production by Damiano Michieletto had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. He will also make his debut at the Vienna State Opera later this year. The young singer has already worked with conductors such as Sylvain Cambreling, Thomas Guggeis, Marie Jacquot, Lothar Koenigs, Oksana Lyniv, Cornelius Meister, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Francois-Xavier Roth, Marc Soustrot, Andreas Spering, Lorenzo Viotti and Bas Wiegers, as well as with directors such as Lotte de Beer, Frank Castorf, Peter Konwitschny and Jossi Wieler.