Rainer Trost (born on October 30, 1966) is a German tenor whose performance repertoire encompasses operas, operettas, Lieder and oratorios.
[1][3] In 1992, Trost launched his international career as Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte with conductor John Eliot Gardiner in Paris[2][4] This performance was recorded live and released on the Deutsche Grammophon label.
A Guardian review wrote: "few tenors on disc can rival the German Rainer Trost in the heady beauty of his voice – above all in Ferrando's aria Una aura amorosa.
He has appeared in Hamburg, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Ludwigsburg,[1] Paris,[6] Vienna,[7] Geneva, Berlin, Brussels, Cologne, Barcelona, the Metropolitan Opera, at the Salzburg Festival and the Edinburgh Festival, at the Maggio Musicale in Florence[1] and at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London.
[8] He also appeared as Count Balduin Zedlau in Wiener Blut by Johann Strauss at the Seefestspiele Mörbisch in August 2007, and as Arbace in Dieter Dorn's new production of Idomeneo on 14 June 2008 for the reopening of the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich.