Markus Eiche

MARKUS EICHE was born in St. Georgen in the black forest, he studied in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart and is a prizewinner of several national and international competitions. He started his career at the National theatre Mannheim, and there played the roles of Marcello (La Bohème), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Papageno (the magic flute), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) as well as the leading roles in Wozzeck and Don Giovanni. In the season 2007/2008, he became to ensemble member of the Wiener Staatsoper and sang among others, Marcello, Jeletzki, Belcore (L'elisir d'amore), Albert (Werther), Lescaut (Manon), Fritz/Frank, Valentin (Faust), Donner (Das Rheingold), Gunther (Götterdämmerung), Eugen Onegin, Don Juan (From the house of the dead), and Dr. Falke (The Bat). In addition, he has appeared as a guest at the Salzburg Festival, the Milan Scala, the Netherlands Opera Amsterdam, the Semperoper Opera house Dresden, the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, the Finnish National Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Munich state Opera and at the Bayreuth Festival. Since autumn 2012, Markus Eiche teaches at the Zurich Hochschhule of the arts. http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/kuenstler/saengerinnen/Eiche.en.