Austrian bass Günther Groissböck appears regularly at the Wiener Staatsoper, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra national de Paris, Teatro alla Scala and Bayreuth Festival. He also sings at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bayerische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Unter den Linden and Arena di Verona. Frequent collaborators include Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann, Kirill Petrenko, Andris Nelsons, Sir Antonio Pappano and Philippe Jordan.

Wagner and Strauss are central to Mr. Groissböck’s repertoire. He has sung Hermann in Tannhäuser in Vienna and Bayreuth, King Marke in Tristan und Isolde at Bayreuth and Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Gurnemanz in Parsifal in Vienna and Berlin. Recent roles include Hagen in Götterdämmerung in Vienna and Milan, and Hunding in Die Walküre in Vienna, Milan and Paris. As Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier, he has appeared in New York, Vienna, Milan, Berlin and Zurich; as Heinrich in Lohengrin, in Vienna, Berlin, Barcelona and New York.

In Vienna, he also sings Pogner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Orest in Elektra and Pope Pius IV in Pfitzner’s Palestrina. His 2026 engagements include Filippo II in Don Carlo in Vienna and Kecal in The Bartered Bride at Teatro Real Madrid. Announced for 2027 are King Dodon in The Golden Cockerel at Theater an der Wien, Daland in Der fliegende Holländer at the Wiener Staatsoper and Baron Ochs at the Metropolitan Opera.

In concert, Mr. Groissböck has sung Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 with the Gewandhausorchester under Nelsons, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Vienna Philharmonic under Riccardo Muti, and Boris in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Nelsons in Boston and at Carnegie Hall. His 2026 programme includes Oedipus rex at the Gulbenkian Foundation and Die schöne Müllerin in Linz.

Recital partnerships with Julius Drake and Malcolm Martineau have brought him to the Wiener Musikverein, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. His recordings include Nicht Wiedersehen! with Martineau, awarded a Choc de Classica; Winterreise/Schwanengesang and Herz-Tod with Gerold Huber; Wiener Lieder with the Philharmonia Schrammeln; and Männerliebe und -leben with Martineau, featuring Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms (Gramola / Naxos International, 2024).

Mr. Groissböck studied with Robert Holl and José van Dam at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. His directing projects include the Tristan Experiment at Theater an der Wien in 2021 and Don Carlo for Oper Klosterneuburg in 2023.