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Alexander Kaimbacher was born in Villach and now lives in Vienna with his family. He studied voice, acting, Waldorf education, and theatre, film, and media studies. Since 1998, he has worked as a freelance opera and concert singer and was a member of the ensembles at both the Vienna State Opera and the Bavarian State Opera. He is a professor of voice at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz and also teaches at the opera school of the Vienna State Opera.
His particular strength lies in the expressive shaping of word and music in character roles such as Loge, Candide, Eisenstein, the Celebrant, and Aschenbach. In 2019, he made his role debut as the Holy Drinker Piet vom Fass in György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre at the Zurich Opera House. In 2021, he performed as the Painter in Berg’s Lulu at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, as Eiger in Eiger by Fabian Müller in Biel/Solothurn, in Toteis by Manuela Kerer in Bolzano, and in Egmont by Christian Jost in Bielefeld, where he also made his role debut in 2023 as Parsifal, staged in a new cinematic-opera format.
Most recently, he sang at the Bregenz Festival in a co-production with Neue Oper Wien in the world premiere of Die Judith von Shimoda by Fabian Panisello, as well as in Offenbach’s The Bandits (Die Banditen) at the Komische Oper Berlin, and in Die Soldaten by Bernd Alois Zimmermann in Hamburg, Cologne, and Paris.
In 2023, he also took on the role of Hiob at the Klagenfurt City Theatre in the new opera of the same name by Bernhard Lang and Michael Sturminger, based on the novel by Joseph Roth. The production was awarded the Austrian Theatre Prize in September 2024.
The upcoming season is dedicated to Johann Strauss, featuring Die Fledermaus at the Theater an der Wien, and Indigo and the 23 Robbers (Indigo und die 23 Räuberinnen*) in all 23 districts of Vienna as part of the Johann Strauss Festival Vienna 2025.
Alexander Kaimbacher was born in Villach and now lives in Vienna with his family. He studied voice, acting, Waldorf education, and theatre, film, and media studies. Since 1998, he has worked as a freelance opera and concert singer and was a member of the ensembles at both the Vienna State Opera and the Bavarian State Opera. He is a professor of voice at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz and also teaches at the opera school of the Vienna State Opera.
His particular strength lies in the expressive shaping of word and music in character roles such as Loge, Candide, Eisenstein, the Celebrant, and Aschenbach. In 2019, he made his role debut as the Holy Drinker Piet vom Fass in György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre at the Zurich Opera House. In 2021, he performed as the Painter in Berg’s Lulu at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, as Eiger in Eiger by Fabian Müller in Biel/Solothurn, in Toteis by Manuela Kerer in Bolzano, and in Egmont by Christian Jost in Bielefeld, where he also made his role debut in 2023 as Parsifal, staged in a new cinematic-opera format.
Most recently, he sang at the Bregenz Festival in a co-production with Neue Oper Wien in the world premiere of Die Judith von Shimoda by Fabian Panisello, as well as in Offenbach’s The Bandits (Die Banditen) at the Komische Oper Berlin, and in Die Soldaten by Bernd Alois Zimmermann in Hamburg, Cologne, and Paris.
In 2023, he also took on the role of Hiob at the Klagenfurt City Theatre in the new opera of the same name by Bernhard Lang and Michael Sturminger, based on the novel by Joseph Roth. The production was awarded the Austrian Theatre Prize in September 2024.
The upcoming season is dedicated to Johann Strauss, featuring Die Fledermaus at the Theater an der Wien, and Indigo and the 23 Robbers (Indigo und die 23 Räuberinnen*) in all 23 districts of Vienna as part of the Johann Strauss Festival Vienna 2025.
