Friedrich Haider

Haider has repeatedly devoted himself to Italian bel canto, achieving personal success above all with his discovery of Roberto Devereux by Donizetti – especially in 2004 at the Bavarian State Opera.

[1] In 2006, he made his debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera with Verdi's Rigoletto, and in 2011 accepted his first invitation to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail).

Highlights of his theatre work to date include Verdi's Otello (at the Tivoli Festival Copenhagen), Gounod's Faust (at the Bavarian State Opera Munich), Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (at the Semperoper Dresden), Wagner's Lohengrin (in Barcelona) and Tristan und Isolde (in Nice) as well as Strauss' Salome (at the Tokyo National Opera) and Weber's Der Freischütz (at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice).

In 2008, the CD label Philartis Vienna released the one-act opera Il segreto di Susanna (Judith Howard, Angel Oden, Oviedo Filarmonia) as well as the world premiere recording of the composer's orchestral suites.

26 (soloist: Benjamin Schmid [de]) was released by Farao Classics as the beginning of a Wolf-Ferrari Edition, a recording that was awarded the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (Quarterly List 2013/1).

At the beginning of 2015, the Ministry of Culture made a budget cut at the National Theatre and, almost simultaneously, increased the salaries of the neighbouring Philharmonic Orchestra by a total of 1.5 million euros.

[10] On the occasion of a new production of Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Warsaw Chamber Opera in January 2017, Haider conducted the Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense for the first time.