Hany Abdelzaher

Egyptian tenor Hany Abdelzaher was a member of the ensemble at Theater Regensburg from 2022 to 2025, singing Italian, German and contemporary repertoire. His roles there included Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Macduff in Macbeth, Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos and the Prince in Rusalka. Alongside these, he appeared as the Sailor and Shepherd in Tristan und Isolde, Titorelli in Gottfried von Einem’s Der Prozess and the title character in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. In 2024, he sang the Circus Director in the German premiere of Peter Eötvös’s Valuska.

Bacchus also brought Mr. Abdelzaher to Landestheater Niederbayern in 2025. His guest appearances in Italian opera include Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera at Teatro Luigi Mancinelli in Orvieto in 2024, following Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana there in 2021. In 2022, he made his Theater Bremen debut in the title role of Verdi’s Don Carlo. He was also engaged as Radamès in Aida at Theater Bielefeld and as cover for Don Carlo at the Salzburg Easter Festival in 2020 under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann.

Earlier engagements include Tito in La clemenza di Tito at both the Wiener Konzerthaus and Musikverein Graz in 2018, Don José in Carmen and Vaudémont in Iolanta at the Operosa Opera Festival in Montenegro and Serbia in 2017–2018, and Idomeneo at Theater Akzent in Vienna in 2018. During his studies in Salzburg, he appeared in Mozarteum productions as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, the Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Don José and Nerone in L’incoronazione di Poppea.

Mr. Abdelzaher’s concert appearances include Carmen and Werther with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra in 2019, Aida with the Salzburg Philharmonic in 2016, and performances with the Vienna Young Philharmonic. He has also appeared in gala concerts in Vienna, Moscow and Cairo.

Born in Cairo, Mr. Abdelzaher earned his bachelor’s degree in voice at the Cairo Conservatory and continued his education at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, graduating with a master’s degree in opera and music theatre. He also holds an LTCL performance diploma from Trinity Guildhall London. He won the Spazio Musica International Opera Competition in Orvieto in 2021 and was a finalist in the Beniamino Gigli competition in Rome in 2018 and the Muslim Magomayev competition in Moscow in 2016.