Thorsten Büttner

The tenor Thorsten Büttner studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he graduated with honors in the summer of 2006 and was presented with the Lilli Lehmann Medal. In 2008 he was a member of the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project under the direction of Barbara Bonney and Michael Schade. He was the scholarship recipient of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and participated in masterclasses by Ramón Vargas, Giuseppe Giacomini, Grace Bumbry and Torsten Kerl. Büttner was a guest at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, where he sang Andres in Wozzeck and Lensky in Eugen Onegin. In 2007 Büttner was a finalist at the International Gesangswettbewerb der Festspielstadt Passau and won 2nd place at the International Gesangswettbewerb at Schloss Laubach near Frankfurt am Main. In 2010 he was awarded the Gottlob Frick Medal and in 2011 nominated him the “opera world” as the best young singer. From 2011 to 2014 he was an ensemble member at the Staatstheater Mainz where he performed the title role in Idomeneo, Freddy in My Fair Lady, Dagobert Millefleur in Eva, Shepherd/Sailor in Tristan and Isolde, Julian von Golz in Suppés Fatinitza, Count Hohenzollern in Henze’s Prinz von Homburg, Lensky in Eugen Onegin, Macduff in Macbeth, Alfredo Germont in La Traviata, and Ottavio in Don Giovanni.