As Hunding, he has appeared in new Ring Cycles at Bayerische Staatsoper under Kent Nagano, Wiener Staatsoper under Franz Welser-Möst, Oper Frankfurt under Sebastian Weigle, Lyric Opera of Chicago under Sir Andrew Davis, and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden under Sir Antonio Pappano. Ranked as one of today’s finest Wagnerian basses, Anger made his Bayreuth Festival debut as Fafner in Das Rheingold and Siegfried under Christian Thielemann, and his debut at Teatro alla Scala as Daland ( Der fliegende Holländer) under Hartmut Haenchen. Since his house debut at Wiener Staatsoper as Monterone in Rigoletto in 2004, he has sung more than forty roles there including Dosifei in Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina conducted by Semyon Bychkov, König Heinrich in a new Lohengrin with Christian Thielemann, Commendatore in Barrie Kosky’s new Don Giovanni under Philippe Jordan, and many of his key Italian roles including Filippo II ( Don Carlos), Zaccaria ( Nabucco), Fiesco ( Simone Boccanegra) and Sparafucile ( Rigoletto).

Estonian bass Ain Anger is a regular presence on the world’s most celebrated operatic stages and was honoured as Kammersänger by the Austrian government in 2020.

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