Reader Submission: Austrian barihunk Matthias Störmer

Matthias Störmer (Don Giovanni center) Photos from artist website

Our latest Reader Submission is Austrian barihunk Matthias Störmer, who is a member of the ensemble at the Theater Regensburg in Bavaria. He is wrapping up a run as the title character in Mozart's Don Giovanni today.

After graduating from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in 2010, he became a member of the ensemble at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck, where he sang the title role in Florian Bramböck's Der dritte Polizist.

 Matthias Störmer sings Don Giovanni's serenade:

Since joining the Theater Regensburg ensemble, he has performed Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo in Mozart's Così fan tutte, Schaunard in Puccini's La bohème, Sharpless in Puccini's Madama Butterfly Leopold in Stolz's Im weißen Rössl,Testo in Monteverdi's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Kuligin in Janáček's Kát’a Kabanová, Melot in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and Marullo in Verdi's Rigoletto.

He studies with the legendary mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbaender.

In January, he will perform Papageno again, appear in two concerts and sing Bondy in Kálmán's operetta Die Herzogin von Chicago.