Ks. Wilfried Staber

Since the 2009/10 season, Ks. Wilfried Staber has been a member of the Theater & Orchester Heidelberg, where he was previously engaged from 2004 to 2007. In 2022, the City of Heidelberg awarded him the title of Kammersänger in recognition of his many years of artistic work.

Born in 1972 in Fohnsdorf, Austria, he studied at the Graz University of Music and Performing Arts, graduating with distinction in 2004 under Josef Loibl at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts. He received scholarships from the German Stage Association and the Walter Kaminsky Foundation, and was a finalist at the 4th International Wagner Singing Competition in Bayreuth and a prize-winner at the Francisco Viñas Competition.

From 2007, Staber was engaged at the Cologne Opera, where he appeared, amongst other roles, as Rocco in »Fidelio«, Sarastro in »The Magic Flute« and Baculus in »Der Wildschütz«. His repertoire also includes roles such as the Water Sprite in »Rusalka«, the Landgrave in »Tannhäuser«, Baron Ochs von Lerchenau in »Der Rosenkavalier«, Osmin in »The Abduction from the Seraglio«, Kotschubej in »Mazeppa«, Don Alfonso in »Così fan tutte« and Daland in »The Flying Dutchman«.

Guest engagements have taken him to the Bregenz Festival, where he appeared in »The Magic Flute« in 2013 and 2014, the Thurn und Taxis Festival, the Andechs Festival, the Herrenchiemsee Festival, the Prinzregententheater in Munich, and to Graz, Cape Town, Aachen, Bremen, Bielefeld, Mannheim, Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe, Gießen and Koblenz.