Daniel Gutmann

The Austrian baritone Daniel Gutmann has been a member of the ensemble at Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich since 2019. At the house, he has appeared in lyric and character roles including Don Giovanni, Dandini in La Cenerentola, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Escamillo in Carmen, Javert in Les Misérables and Albert in Werther. His work across opera, operetta and musical theatre also includes the Pirate King in Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance. He is scheduled to sing Mucki von Rodenstein in Ziehrer’s Die Landstreicher from November 2026, with further performances in January 2027.

Guest engagements have taken Mr. Gutmann to the Salzburg Festival in Der Prozess, Staatstheater Nürnberg in La Cenerentola, Theater St. Gallen in Les Misérables and the Wiener Konzerthaus in Mass. In summer 2026 he appeared as Escamillo at the Wiener Opernsommer. He has also performed in Baden near Zurich and Baden near Vienna, at the jOPERA Festival in Burgenland, and in educational productions with Animato across Austria and Germany. At the Gärtnerplatztheater, contemporary Austrian opera is represented by Johanna Doderer’s Der tollste Tag and Schuberts Reise nach Atzenbrugg.

In parallel with his operatic work, Mr. Gutmann is active as a concert and art song performer. His recital work has brought him to the United States, Singapore and throughout Austria and Germany. Recent appearances include the Chelsea Music Festival in New York in 2024 and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl in 2025. He is scheduled to sing Handel’s Messiah at the Vienna Musikverein in December 2026. A regular presence at Kulturfest Traisental at Schloss Walpersdorf, he also appears on Bavarian television in operetta and Viennese song programmes. His debut album Tränenflut, featuring Schumann’s settings of Heine, was released by Gramola in 2023. His screen work includes his 2021 film debut as Don Giovanni in Die Unschuldsvermutung and the 2023 ORF documentary Amadeus, Amadeus – Winterklang Salzburg.

Mr. Gutmann studied voice with Julia Bauer-Huppmann and classical guitar with Melitta Heinzmann at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. While still a student, he performed frequently at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn, singing Figaro, Leporello and Toante. He is a prizewinner of Elīna Garanča’s ZukunftsStimmen, the Petyrek-Lang Lied Competition and Iuventus Canti. He also holds a degree in sports science from the University of Vienna and competed in decathlon with the Viennese athletics club DSG. Outside classical music, he is the lead singer and songwriter of the country band The Groovecake Factory.