Tobias Hechler

In the 2025/2026 season, countertenor Tobias Hechler will make his debut at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein as Tolomeo in Handel's “Giulio Cesare”. This will be followed by further debuts in spring 2026 as Orfeo in Gluck's “Orfeo ed Euridice” at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and as Servo in the world premiere of Sciarrino's “Agamennone” at the Bühnen Bern.
In recent seasons, the countertenor has made his debut in major roles such as Oberon in Britten's “A Midsummer Night's Dream” at the Theater Vorpommern and Ruggiero in Handel's “Alcina” at the Volkstheater Rostock.
Further guest engagements have taken him to the Frankfurt Opera, the Theater an der Wien, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the National Theatre Mannheim, the State Theatre Hanover, the Theatre Osnabrück and the Wuppertal Stages, among others.
As a concert soloist, he has performed in the great oratorios and passions of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, as well as in Pergolesi's “Stabat Mater”, Vivaldi's “Gloria” and Leonard Bernstein's “Chichester Psalms”.
In 2021, he participated in the renowned Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival. He completed his studies first at the University of the Arts in Bremen with Katharina Rössner and later with Gudrun Pelker at the University of Music, Drama and Media in Hanover. He received further inspiration and coaching from Margreet Honig and Marek Rzepka.
Tobias Hechler was a scholarship holder of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst.

Tobias Hechler | Countertenor