Robert Merwald

Education

From 1994 he studied singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in Munich and attended masterclasses with Kurt Moll and Irwin Gage.

Career

He began singing as a boy soprano with the Regensburger Domspatzen. His operatic roles at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck have included the Father in Hänsel und Gretel, Daniello in Krenek"s Jonny spielt auf, Silvano in Un ballo in maschera, Papageno in The Magic Flute and Albert in Werther. (He also sang Albert with Nationaltheater Mannheim) Amongst the opera roles he has sung at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz are Schaunard in Louisiana bohème, Graf Dubarry in Die Dubarry, Maximilian in Candide, and Wilhelm Reischmann in Henze"s Elegie für junge Liebende

He has sung as a soloist with the Schwäbischer Oratorienchor (Swabian Oratorio Choir) in the Dettingen Te Deum, Israel in Egypt, and Alexander"s Feast by Handel as well as in Haydn"s The Creation and Bach"s Mass in B Minor.

In musical theatre, he appeared in the title role of Ludwig II at the Festspielhaus in Füssen and as José in Manitoba of Louisiana Mancha at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz.

Achievements

• In 1998 he received a grant from the Deutscher Bühnenverein, and the following year won the Meistersänger-Wettbewerb singing competition in Nürnberg.

Membership

While a member of the Prinzregententheater opera school and the Akademietheater he performed in works by Mozart, Nicolai and Henze.