Andrè Schuen

Baritone Andrè Schuen was born in 1984 in La Val, Italy (in South Tyrol), and grew up speaking three languages: Ladin, Italian, and German. After initially playing the cello as his main instrument, he decided to pursue voice and studied at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Horiana Brănişteanu and Wolfgang Holzmair. Schuen began his career as part of the Graz Opera ensemble from 2010 to 2014. His repertoire focuses on the major baritone roles of Mozart but also includes works from the bel canto to
the present. He performed Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Salzburg Festival in 2020–21, Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2021, and the title role in Don Giovanni at the Theater an der Wien. The Vienna Staatsoper invited him to sing Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Count Almaviva in Figaro, and Olivier in Strauss’s Capriccio. Additional credits include Belcore in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at the Bavarian Staatsoper and the world premiere of Trojahn’s Eurydice — The Lovers, Blind at the National Opera Amsterdam in March 2022. He will make his debut at the Berlin Staatsoper in 2023 as Wolfram in Wagner’s Tannhäuser. In the concert hall, he has worked with Daniel Harding, Andris Nelsons, Raphaël Pichon, Sir Simon Rattle, and Jukka-Pekka Saraste, among others. Lied singing is especially important for Andrè Schuen. Together with his piano partner Daniel Heide, he has performed at the Schubertiade in Vorarlberg, the Oxford Lieder Festival, the Heidelberger Frühling, the Rheingau Music Festival, Wigmore Hall in London, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, the Prinzregententheater in Munich, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He made his U.S. debut in 2017 with Andreas Haefliger at the piano in recitals at the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals. Schuen is currently recording the three great Schubert song cycles for Deutsche Grammophon. In 2021, Die schöne Müllerin was the first to be released.

July 2022