German tenor Maximilian Mayer studied with Peter Edelmann at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, graduating with distinction in 2016. His musical training began with the Regensburger Domspatzen.

Since 2023, Mr. Mayer has pursued a freelance career. His announced engagements for 2026/27 include Edwin in Kálmán’s Die Csárdásfürstin at Theater Osnabrück, Sou-Chong in Lehár’s Das Land des Lächelns at Bühne Baden and Prinz Andreas Stephan in Paul Abraham’s Märchen im Grand-Hotel at Theater Kiel.

He made his Wagner debut as Froh in Das Rheingold at Staatstheater Kassel in April 2023 and appeared as Cervantes in Johann Strauss’s Das Spitzentuch der Königin at Theater an der Wien in 2024/25. He sang Camille de Rosillon in Die lustige Witwe at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Oper Köln and the Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen in 2023/24, followed by Danilo at Bühne Baden in 2025.

From 2016 to 2023, Mr. Mayer was a soloist at Munich’s Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, where his repertoire included the title role in Candide, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Don Ottavio, Ferrando and Tamino, alongside Lord Barrat in Henze’s Der junge Lord and Macheath in Die Dreigroschenoper. He has also performed Tamino as a guest in Leipzig, Wiesbaden, Dortmund and Kassel. In 2025, he made his French debut in the role at Opéra de Rennes and Angers Nantes Opéra.

Mr. Mayer has also sung at the Semperoper Dresden, the theatres in Kiel, Heidelberg and Koblenz, the Lehár Festival Bad Ischl, Operklosterneuburg and Seefestspiele Mörbisch.

His concert work includes Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethes Faust in Kassel, Alfred and Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus at Grafenegg, and appearances with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and Kiel Philharmonic. In Kiel he sang in Candide and Mendelssohn’s Paulus. For 2027, he is announced as a soloist in Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with the Regensburger Domspatzen.

In 2015, Mr. Mayer won the Musical/Operetta category, Audience Prize and Viennese song prize at the Heinrich Strecker Crossover Competition. He received first prize at the MUT Competition in Munich in 2017.