Daniel Gutmann
Lower Austrian baritone Daniel Gutmann has been a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich since 2019. In the current 2025/26 season, he will appear there as Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Papageno (The Magic Flute), Il Conte (The Marriage of Figaro), Escamillo (Carmen), Javert (Les Misérables), the Pirate King (The Pirates of Penzance), and as Figaro in the world premiere of Johann Doderer’s opera Der tollste Tag.
Other highlights of the season will include Daniel Gutmann’s 2026 performances as Il Conte in Mozart’s *Le nozze di Figaro* in Tokyo and as Escamillo in Bizet’s *Carmen* at the Vienna Opera Summer Festival.
Gutmann completed his musical training in Herzogenburg, St. Pölten, and Vienna. He studied voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Julia Bauer-Huppmann and classical guitar with Melitta Heinzmann. Even while still a student, he sang roles such as Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Leporello (Don Giovanni), and Toante (Oreste) at the Vienna Palace Theater in Schönbrunn, as well as Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and the title role in Don Giovanni on studio and off-Broadway stages.
Other musical theater engagements have taken him to venues including the Salzburg Festival (The Trial), the Staatstheater Nürnberg (Dandini in *La Cenerentola*), the Theater St. Gallen (Javert in *Les Misérables*), the Vienna Konzerthaus (*Mass*), the Kurtheater Baden near Zurich (Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus), the Theater Rigiblick in Zurich (Dromio E. in Gli Equivoci), and the Stadttheater Baden near Vienna (Die Kaiserin). In the field of children’s opera, he performed the role of Buonafede (Il mondo della luna) at the jOPERA Festival in Burgenland and was a member for one season of the Musiktheater Animato, which offers opera workshops for children in Austria and Germany (Don Giovanni and Die Kluge).
In addition, Daniel Gutmann is deeply committed to concert and art song performance. Having grown up with choral music at a young age, he began a solo career early on. For many years, he sang in ensembles such as the Motettenchor Herzogenburg, the Domkantorei St. Pölten, the Chorus Sine Nomine, and the Company of Music (both under the direction of Johannes Hiemetsberger)—always taking on solo roles as well.
Recital tours and concert tours have taken him to New York, Singapore, Washington, D.C., Texas, as well as throughout Austria and Germany. Most recently, he appeared as a bass soloist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at the Tyrolean Easter Festival in Erl (conducted by Heinz Ferlesch) and at the Musikverein in Vienna with Concentus Musicus (conducted by Stefan Gottfried). A regular annual highlight is the Kulturfest Traisental classical music festival at Walpersdorf Castle in Lower Austria. Since 2021, he has been a regular guest on Bavarian television, performing operetta roles and Viennese songs.
He also appeared as Don Giovanni in the 2021 Austrian comedy film *Die Unschuldsvermutung* (ORF/ARD) and as a soloist in the 2023 ORF production *Amadeus, Amadeus – Winterklang Salzburg*. That same year, his solo CD Tränenflut, recorded with pianist Maximilian Kromer and featuring Schumann songs based on poems by Heinrich Heine, was released by Gramola.
Gutmann has collaborated with conductors such as Michael Balke, Anthony Bramall, Michael Brandstätter, Rubén Dubrovsky, Koen Schoots, and Andreas Partilla, among others.
He has won several national and international vocal competitions, including Elīna Garanča’s “ZukunftsStimmen,” the Petyrek-Lang Song Competition, and Iuventus Canti. He also holds a degree in sports science from the University of Vienna and, while a student, competed as a competitive decathlete with the Vienna athletics club DSG.
In addition to his classical career, he regularly performs as the lead singer and songwriter with his country band, The Groovecake Factory, with whom he has already won numerous awards both in Germany and abroad and recorded two CDs.
