Marcel Brunner

Bass-baritone Marcel Brunner studied voice at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Christiane Libor and worked intensively with Julia Varády on his opera repertoire.
While still a student, he became a member of the ensemble at the National Theater in Mannheim, where, from 2018 to 2024, he performed major roles such as Figaro (Mozart “Le nozze di Figaro”), Leporello (Mozart “Don Giovanni”), Papageno (Mozart “The Magic Flute”), Bluebeard (Bartók “Bluebeard’s Castle”), Leander (Prokofiev “The Love for Three Oranges”), Alberich/Gunther (“The Ring in One Evening”), and Eremit (Weber “Der Freischütz”).
Guest engagements have taken him to, among others, the Stuttgart State Opera, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Leipzig Opera, the Aalto Theater in Essen, the Dortmund Opera, the Theater Bonn, the Ständetheater in Prague, the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, and the Vlaamse Opera, as well as to the Berlin Philharmonic’s Easter Festival in Baden-Baden.
In addition to radio and CD recordings of rarely performed works (including for SWR and Deutschlandfunk), his debut album “REMEMBRANCE” was released in September 2025 on häussler Classic. In recognition of his achievements to date, he was awarded the OPUS KLASSIK prize as “Young Artist of the Year” in the summer of 2026.
In the 2026–27 season, Marcel Brunner will appear at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein as Ma in “Der Kreidekreis” (Zemlinsky).