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At the age of six, Matteo Ivan Rašić joined the “Wiltener Sängerknaben”, where he received his first singing lessons. As a boy soprano, he performed as a soloist in numerous concerts and at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, e.g. in the opera “Das schlaue Füchslein”, and interpreted songs and arias from “Der Vogelhändler” and “La traviata” on the “Wiltener Sängerknaben” China tours.
The tenor then studied singing at the "Tiroler Landeskonservatorium" in collaboration with the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and instrumental and vocal pedagogy with Johannes Stecher at the Mozarteum Salzburg. He also completed masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender, Karlheinz Hanser, Robert Holl, Stephan Matthias Lademann and Thomas Hampson, among others, and studied with Vesselina Kasarova and Linda Watson at the “Eva-Lind-Musikakademie” as a scholarship holder of the "Tiroler Wirtschaftskammer". In 2022, Matteo Ivan Rašić won the “Opera for Peace Prize” at the Stanisław Moniuszko Competition under the patronage of Jakub Jozef Orliński, as well as the “ Tiroler Klassik Sängerpreis”. In 2024, he was awarded 1st prize at the Otto Edelmann Singing Competition Vienna 2024 and the corresponding ottoedelmannsociety Audience Award.
Engagements to date have included the Operetta Summer Kufstein, the Croatian Opera Academy (followed by participation in the “Internationale Opernwerkstatt Waiblingen”) and as Nemorino (“L'elisir d'amore”) at the “Oper Burg Gars 2024”. His oratorio repertoire includes Bach's “Christmas Oratorio” and “St. Matthew Passion”, Handel's “Messiah”, Mendelssohn Bartholdy's “95th Psalm” as well as Haydn's “The Seasons” and “The Creation”. Matteo Ivan Rašić is a regular guest soloist at orchestral masses, Christmas, New Year and gala concerts, including in Bayreuth, Tyrol and at the Christmas concert “Božić u Ciboni” in Croatia.
At the Gärtnerplatztheater, where he has been a member of the ensemble since the 2023/2024 season, he made his debut in 2022 as Fritz in “Die Großherzogin von Gerolstein”. He has also sung Tamino (“Die Zauberflöte”), Adam (“Der Vogelhändler”), Marius (“Les Misérables”) and Brian (Monty Python's “Not the Messiah”), among others.
At the age of six, Matteo Ivan Rašić joined the “Wiltener Sängerknaben”, where he received his first singing lessons. As a boy soprano, he performed as a soloist in numerous concerts and at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, e.g. in the opera “Das schlaue Füchslein”, and interpreted songs and arias from “Der Vogelhändler” and “La traviata” on the “Wiltener Sängerknaben” China tours.
The tenor then studied singing at the "Tiroler Landeskonservatorium" in collaboration with the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and instrumental and vocal pedagogy with Johannes Stecher at the Mozarteum Salzburg. He also completed masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender, Karlheinz Hanser, Robert Holl, Stephan Matthias Lademann and Thomas Hampson, among others, and studied with Vesselina Kasarova and Linda Watson at the “Eva-Lind-Musikakademie” as a scholarship holder of the "Tiroler Wirtschaftskammer". In 2022, Matteo Ivan Rašić won the “Opera for Peace Prize” at the Stanisław Moniuszko Competition under the patronage of Jakub Jozef Orliński, as well as the “ Tiroler Klassik Sängerpreis”. In 2024, he was awarded 1st prize at the Otto Edelmann Singing Competition Vienna 2024 and the corresponding ottoedelmannsociety Audience Award.
Engagements to date have included the Operetta Summer Kufstein, the Croatian Opera Academy (followed by participation in the “Internationale Opernwerkstatt Waiblingen”) and as Nemorino (“L'elisir d'amore”) at the “Oper Burg Gars 2024”. His oratorio repertoire includes Bach's “Christmas Oratorio” and “St. Matthew Passion”, Handel's “Messiah”, Mendelssohn Bartholdy's “95th Psalm” as well as Haydn's “The Seasons” and “The Creation”. Matteo Ivan Rašić is a regular guest soloist at orchestral masses, Christmas, New Year and gala concerts, including in Bayreuth, Tyrol and at the Christmas concert “Božić u Ciboni” in Croatia.
At the Gärtnerplatztheater, where he has been a member of the ensemble since the 2023/2024 season, he made his debut in 2022 as Fritz in “Die Großherzogin von Gerolstein”. He has also sung Tamino (“Die Zauberflöte”), Adam (“Der Vogelhändler”), Marius (“Les Misérables”) and Brian (Monty Python's “Not the Messiah”), among others.
