Max Dollinger

Born in Franconia, lyric baritone Max Dollinger appeared on stage as a child in roles such as Second Boy in “The Magic Flute” and other children's and youth roles before studying opera singing at the HMT Leipzig and the Rabine Institute near Mannheim. From 2021 to 2025, the young singer was engaged at the Saarländisches Staatstheater, where he performed roles such as Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, Lionel in Die Jungfrau von Orléans, Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale, and Papageno in Die Zauberflöte.
Since the 2025/26 season, he has been a member of the ensemble at the Hanover State Opera, where he will appear as Fritz in “Die tote Stadt,” Masetto in “Don Giovanni,” and Ping in “Turandot,” among other roles.
While still a student in his early 20s, Max Dollinger received his first permanent engagement at the Gerhart Hauptmann Theater in Görlitz-Zittau and can look back on guest performances at the Chemnitz Opera, the Dresden State Operetta, the Renaissance Theater in Berlin, and the Theater Ulm. He has performed as a soloist in concerts at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, as part of the Leipzig Bach Festival and the Saar Music Festival, and at the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin, among others. The versatile artist also develops and designs his own musical-literary programs with the Thuringian Symphony Orchestra, the Palais Orchestra Weimar, and the Saarland State Orchestra, among others.
In 2023, he was a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association Saar and received two prizes at the Federal Singing Competition Berlin in 2017, the sponsorship award of the Saxon Singers' Academy in 2019, and theater awards at the Saarland State Theater in 2023 and 2025.