Liviu Holender is an Austrian operatic baritone, based at the Oper Frankfurt, where he has performed leading roles including the Count in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Henrik in Carl Nielsen's Maskarade and Hans in Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge.
[1][2] Holender became a member of the ensemble of Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich in 2017, where he appeared as Vicomte Cascada in Lehár's Die lustige Witwe and Liviu in the children's opera Ritter Odilo und der strenge Herr Winter.
[3] He also performed there as Count Eberbach in Lortzing's Der Wildschütz, Guglielmo (in Mozart's Così fan tutte, Schaunard in Puccini's La bohème and Hans Scholl in Udo Zimmermann's Weiße Rose.
[15] Holender was the soloist in Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the National Radio Orchestra of Romania conducted by Sascha Goetzel [de], between Don Juan by Strauss and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony in October 2023, aired within Europe.
[16] He combined some of the Mahler Wunderhorn songs in a recital at Oper Frankfurt in April 2024 with lieder by other composers whose music was banned by the Nazis, Franz Schreker, Zemlinsky, Erich Korngold, concluding with Schönberg's Zwei Gesänge, Op.