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The German bass-baritone, Martin Häßler, is an alumnus of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig and of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama's prestigious opera programme where he studied with Rudolf Piernay and Janice Chapman. He is now being mentored by Robert Dean. Martin has been a recipient of the prestigious Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and is currently working for mentoringArts at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig. He is second prize-winner at Thomas Quasthoff's Das Lied - International Song Competition 2011, first prize at Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin - junior 2010 and Best Singer's Award at the Gerald Moore Competition London 2010.
Opera engagements have involved Guglielmo in W.A. Mozart's Cosi fan tutte (Nevill Holt Opera, The Sage Gateshead), Monterone in Rigoletto and Adi in Marius Felix Lange’s Schneewittchen (Oper Leipzig), Ratzekahl in Schreker's Irrelohe, Don Inigo in Ravel's L'heure Espagnole (Opéra de Lyon), Joe in Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Teatro Regio di Parma), ll Gran Sacerdote in Nabucco (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Opéra de Vichy), Siegfried in Robert Schumann's Genoveva (Tonhalle Düsseldorf), Collatinus in Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia (Theater Gera-Altenburg) and Henze’s Ein Landarzt (Barbican Centre, London).
In September 2020 Martin Häßler joined the ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper where his roles will include Dr. Falke in Otto Schenk's iconic production of Fledermaus, Cesare Angelotti in Puccini's Tosca, 1st Nazarener in Salome, Moralès in Bieito’s production of Georges Bizet's Carmen and Ping in Puccini’s Turandot. He will furthermore appear in Jossi Wieler’s new production of Henze’s Das verratene Meer.
Martin Häßler worked with conductors Simone Young, Giedre Šlekytė, Sian Edwards, Bertrand de Billy, Cornelius Meister, Daniele Rustioni, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Alexander Soddy, Ludwig Güttler, Christoph Gedschold, Jonathan Stockhammer, Howard Arman and Michele Gamba as well as directors Frank Castorf, David Bösch, Calixto Bieito, Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito and James Bonas.
As an avid recitalist Martin Häßler has sung at the Wigmore Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, with Graham Johnson at Schloss Herten (Klavierfestival Ruhr), at LIFE Victoria Barcelona with Julius Drake, at Oxford Lieder with Sholto Kynoch and Bengt Forsberg, at LSO St. Luke's, at Der Lyrische Salon with Daniel Heide and at the Vienna Musikverein. In 2019 he performed Gustav Mahler’s Rückert Lieder with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi.
Concert appearances include J.S. Bach's Passions (BWV 244, BWV 245) and Christmas Oratorium (BWV 248) (Frauenkirche, Dresden), George Frideric Handel’s Jephtha and Judas Maccabaeus (Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich), Haydn's The Creation and Seasons, W.A. Mozart's Requiem, L.v. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem as well as Felix Mendelssohn's Elias and Paulus. He is also a member of Solistenensemble Stimmkunst (Director: Kay Johannsen). He currently lives in Vienna, Austria. |
