Markus Butter (born 1973)[1] is an Austrian operatic baritone.
[2] Born in Bruck an der Mur, Butter was a member and soloist of the Vienna Boys' Choir from 1982 to 1986 and graduated in 1991 at the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster [de].
[3] Also in 1994 he began to work as an oratorio and lieder singer in Austria and Germany.
Afterwards he moved to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and in 2005 to the Semperoper Dresden.
Guest performances led him to the Aalto-Theater in Essen (2014), to the Bregenzer Festspiele (2014) and several times to the Theater an der Wien (2010, 2011, 2015).