Markus Werba


Markus Werba is an Austrian baritone opera singer.

Biography

Born in Hermagor Carinthia, Austria, Werba began his vocal training aged 16. He studied at the Conservatory of Klagenfurt and University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna with Ralf Doering, Robert Holl and Walter Berry. He has won numerous competitions for his singing in Austria, Italy, Japan, Slovakia and the UK. He was chosen as Guglielmo in 1997 for the inauguration of the Nuovo Piccolo Teatro in Milan by Giorgio Strehler.
After his debut in Milan he sang in all major opera houses.

Operatic repertoire

Bellini
  • Sir Riccardo Forth
Braunfels
  • Wiedehopf
Britten
  • Billy Budd
  • Demetrius
Cavalli
  • Mercurio
Debussy
  • Pelléas
Donizetti
  • Don Alfonso
  • Malatesta
  • Belcore
  • Lord Enrico Ashton
Korngold
  • Frank-Fritz
Lehàr
  • Danilo
Marschner
  • Hans Heiling
Massenet
  • Athanaël
Mozart
  • Papageno
  • Guglielmo / Don Alfonso
  • Don Giovanni
  • Figaro / Il Conte
  • Nardo
Rossini
  • Figaro
  • Dandini
Thomas
  • Hamlet
Tchaikovsky
  • Eugene Onegin
Paisiello
  • Giorgino
Puccini
  • Marcello
Schubert
  • Froila
Schumann
J.Strauss
  • Eisenstein, Falke
R.Strauss
  • Harlequin
  • Olivier
Verdi
  • Marquis de Posa
  • Ford
Wagner
  • Beckmesser
  • Wolfram

    Concert and Lieder repertoire

CONCERT
Brahms
  • Requiem
Bach
  • Solobasskantaten "ich habe genug", Kreuzstabkantate
  • Johannespassion
  • Matthäuspassion
Fauré
  • Requiem
Haydn
  • Schöpfung
Mendelssohn
  • Elias
  • Paulus
Mozart
Mahler
Orff
  • Carmina Burana
Schubert
  • Messe in C-Dur
  • Messe in G-Dur
LIEDER
Brahms
Schubert
Schumann
Wolf

Discography

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