Hanno Müller-Brachmann

The bass-baritone Hanno Müller-Brachmann, who was born in 1970, grew up in southern Baden and studied voice at the University of Music in Freiburg, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in his lieder class in Berlin, and with Rudolf Piernay in Mannheim. He was subsequently engaged by Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin Staatsoper and remained a member for 13 years. Among his credits there were Kaspar in Weber’s Der Freischütz, Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen and Amfortas in Wagner’s Parsifal, and he participated in world premieres by Elliott Carter and Pascal Dusapin. Müller-Brachmann has made guest appearances at the Hamburg, Munich, and Vienna state opera companies, as well as at San Francisco Opera. He has worked with Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Harding, Andris Nelsons, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle, and Franz Welser-Möst. Also a sought-after interpreter of lieder, Müller-Brachmann has been professor of voice in Karlsruhe since 2011.

Lucerne Festival debut on 6 September 2005 in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Kurt Masur.

Mai 2025