The bass-baritone Marcel Brunner is an internationally sought-after singer, performing both on the opera stage and in the concert repertoire.

From 2018 to 2024, he was a member of the ensemble at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, where he performed roles such as Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Duke Bluebeard (Bluebeard’s Castle), Leander (The Love for Three Oranges), Alberich and Gunther (The Ring in One Evening), the Hermit (Der Freischütz), as well as numerous other roles within his fach. Since September 2024, Marcel Brunner has been working as a freelance artist.

Guest engagements have taken him to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Oper Leipzig, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Aalto-Theater Essen, Theater Freiburg, Theater Bonn, Estates Theatre Prague, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, Vorarlberger Landestheater Bregenz, Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp and Ghent, the Sommeroper Selzach, and the Easter Festival of the Berlin Philharmonic in Baden-Baden.

As a concert soloist, he has performed at the Berlin Philharmonie, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, deSingel Antwerp, Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen, the Ghent Festival at St. Bavo’s Cathedral, and the International Music Festival at Speyer Cathedral. His concert repertoire includes major bass and baritone parts such as Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Verdi’s Requiem, Bach’s Passions and Mass in B minor, and Haydn’s The Creation.

In both opera and concert, he has collaborated with conductors such as Alexander Soddy, Axel Kober, Alejo Pérez, Duncan Ward, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Christoph Gedschold, Hans-Christoph Rademann, and Kaspar Zehnder, as well as with directors including Calixto Bieito, Barbora Horáková, Ersan Mondtag, Jona Kim, Nigel Lowery, Tatjana Gürbaca, Ivo van Hove, Lorenzo Fioroni, and Jens-Daniel Herzog.

Marcel Brunner has also participated in various recordings of rarely performed works for radio and CD, including productions for SWR and Deutschlandfunk. In September 2025, his debut album REMEMBRANCE, recorded with pianist Doriana Tchakarova, was released on the renowned label hänssler Classic. The album received high praise from critics and was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award.

He studied voice at the University of Music Karlsruhe with Prof. Christiane Libor and Stephan Klemm, as well as at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim with Prof. Snezana Stamenkovic. He is currently coached vocally by Christian Oldenburg.

Further important musical inspiration came from masterclasses with Julia Varady, Michelle Breedt, Markus Eiche, Rudolf Piernay, Hartmut Höll, Burkhard Kehring, and Peter Anton Ling.

He was a scholarship holder of Live Music Now Yehudi Menuhin Rhein-Neckar and the Richard Wagner Association Heidelberg.

Marcel Brunner was born in Bad Mergentheim in the Tauber-Franconian region of Germany. Music played an important role throughout his childhood and youth: he sang in various choirs, learned to play the piano, and played the cello both in orchestras and in a string quartet.

Marcel Brunner lives in Leipzig with his family.

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