Alexander Kaimbacher

Alexander Kaimbacher was born in Villach and now lives in Vienna with his family. He studied voice, acting, Waldorf education, and theatre, film, and media studies. Since 1998, he has worked as a freelance opera and concert singer and was a member of the ensembles at both the Vienna State Opera and the Bavarian State Opera. He is a professor of voice at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz and teaches at the opera school of the Vienna State Opera.

His particular strength lies in the intense interpretation of text and music in character roles such as Loge, Candide, Eisenstein, Celebrant, and Aschenbach. In 2019, he made his role debut as the holy drunkard Piet vom Fass in György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre at the Zurich Opera House. In 2021, he performed as the Painter in Berg’s Lulu at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, in Eiger by Fabian Müller in Biel/Solothurn, in Toteis by Manuela Kerer in Bolzano, and in Egmont by Christian Jost in Bielefeld. There, in 2023, he also gave his role debut as Parsifal in a new “cinematic opera” format.

Most recently, he appeared at the Bregenz Festival in a co-production with Neue Oper Wien in the world premiere of Die Judith von Shimoda by Fabian Panisello, at the Komische Oper Berlin in Offenbach’s The Bandits, and in Die Soldaten by Bernd Alois Zimmermann in Hamburg, Cologne, and Paris.

In 2023, he also took on the title role of Hiob at Stadttheater Klagenfurt in the new opera by Bernhard Lang and Michael Sturminger, based on the novel by Joseph Roth, which was awarded the Austrian Theatre Prize in September 2024. The upcoming season will be dedicated to Johann Strauss, with Die Fledermaus at the Theater an der Wien and Indigo und die 23 Räuberinnen* performed across all 23 districts of Vienna as part of the Johann Strauss Festival Vienna 2025.