Hailed by the Irish Examiner as possessing “an imposing stage presence and a vivid range of colour and warmth of tone that compels attention,” Austrian-Australian tenor Gerard Schneider is acknowledged as a preeminent singer of opera, operetta and song. Having developed a strong international presence, Mr. Schneider has appeared throughout the world, including major debuts at the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, Wexford Festival Opera, and the Salzburger Festspiele in repertoire spanning the Bel Canto, Romantic and Verismo styles.

In 2023/24, Gerard returns to the Komische Oper Berlin as Lensky in Eugene Onegin and The Duke in Rigoletto at Theater Bonn. He is an ensemble member at Oper Frankfurt, where he appears in new productions of Offenbach’s Die Banditen and Halevy’s La Juive; as Lyonel in Flotow’s Martha; Leukippos in R. Strauss’s Daphne and Narraboth in R. Strauss’s Salome.

Highlights of his 2022/23 season include the title role in Werther, Tristan in Frank Martin’s oratorio Le Vin herbé at Oper Frankfurt; two new productions in his signature role, the Prince in Rusalka, at Hessiches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and Staatstheater Hannover; and returned to the Wexford Festival as Rinald in Dvorak’s Armida.

In the 2021/22 season, Gerard Schneider returned to Oper Frankfurt as Count Vaudémont in Iolanta, Der Hirt in Krol Roger and Königssohn in Der Königskinder, a role he performed with the Tirol Festival in Erl, Austria. Also with Tirol Festival, he sang the title role in L’amico Fritz and elsewhere, the Prince in Rusalka with Garsington Opera and Edinburgh Festival, Narraboth in Salome with Dutch National Opera, and the cover of Lensky in Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera.

In the 2018/19 season, Gerard Schneider performed the Prince in Rusalka and Der Hirt in Krol Roger at Oper Frankfurt. He also made his debut with the Komische Oper Berlin in Barrie Kosky’s new production of La bohème and returned to Bard SummerScape for three projects celebrating the works of Alexander Pushkin: the role of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart & Salieri, Count Lykov in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Tsar’s Bride, and an afternoon concert featuring settings of Pushkin poetry by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tschaikovsky, Shostakovich and others.

Highlights of past operatic work included the title role in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito in Salzburg and again at the Teatro Comunale in Florence, Satyavan in Holst’ Savitri with the Melos Sinfonia for his debut in St. Petersburg, Russia at the Glazunov Hall and Sheremetev Palace, the role of Osaka in a new production of Pietro Mascagni’s Iris at the Bard SummerScape, directed by James Darrah, Prince Dimitri in Alfano’s Risurrezione with the Wexford Festival Opera, Danilo in Die Lustige Witwe at the Kyoto Summer Music Festival in Japan, Nicias in Massenet’s Thaïs with Minnesota Opera, the title role in Boris Blacher’s Romeo und Julia with the Ensemble Modern in live performances in Frankfurt and Alzenau, Germany, Brian Irvine and Neil Martin’s new opera, Mary Gordon, at the Dublin Concert Hall in Ireland with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Arturo in Bellini’s La Straniera with Washington Concert Opera and the title role in Mozart’s Idomeneo at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in the historic St. Canice’s Cathedral, conducted by Christian Curnyn.

Additional repertoire and appearances have included the State Opera of South Australia, the West Australian Opera, and Clonter Opera in operatic roles including Rodolfo in Puccini’s La bohème, the title role of Debussy’s L’enfant Prodigue, Jacopo in Verdi’s I due Foscari, as both General Sir Philip Wingrave and the Narrator in Britten’s Owen Wingrave, Luigi in Puccini’s Il Tabarro, Bardolfo in Verdi’s Falstaff, Alfred in Die Fledermaus,

A consummate concert artist, Gerard Schneider has appeared in concerts of operatic and song repertoire with the London Symphony Orchestra, Die Nürnberger Symphoniker, the Macao Symphony Orchestra in China, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, The German Forum at Lincoln Center, the New York Festival of Song with Steven Blier, the Bavarian Radio Studio, Steingraeber Hall in Bayreuth, and with the Salzburg Camerata. Mr. Schneider has also performed with the Metropolitan Opera as part of their New York City Parks concerts, Verdi’s Requiem at the Canterbury Cathedral and Mineola Choral Society, and Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle.

Past awards include the Phoebe Patrick Award, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Prize, the David Harper Prize, the Australian Opera Auditions Committee Prize at the Australian Singing Competition and the Tait memorial prize at the 2014 Royal Over-seas League Singing Competition. Mr. Schneider was also a finalist in the Emmerich Smola Förderpreis which culminated in a public broadcast with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie under the baton of Justin Brown at the Landau Jugend-Stil Festhalle, and appeared as part of the accompanying SWR (Südwestrundfunk) documentary, Landau sucht den Opernstar.