Alexander Kröner – tenore buffo

Alexander Kröner was born in Vienna, where he studied Economics before beginning his vocal training, during which he studied with Helena Lazarska, KS Walter Berry, KS Gottfried Hornik and Michael Pabst. He has participated in master-classes with KS Walter Berry, Konrad Leitner and Heinz Zednik, and won second prize in the International Franz Stanner Operetta Competition in Vienna in 2006.

His stage debut took place in 2002 in the children’s opera “Das Traumfresserchen” by Wilfried Hiller, the premiere production in the Wiener Staatsoper’s children’s opera tent on the roof terrace of the opera house. Engagements with various festivals in Austria followed: the Fischauer Klangbogen, the Opernfestival Klosterneuburg and the Opernfestspiele in Spitz an der Donau, where he sang Bastien in Mozart’s “Bastien und Bastienne”. He repeated Bastien in a production of the Wiener Musikhochschule, under whose auspices he later distinguished himself in three Offenbach operettas: first as Arthur in “Häuptling Abendwind” (“Le Vent du Soir”), then as Kilian in “Die Hanni weint, der Hansi lacht” (“Jeanne qui pleure et Jean qui rit“) and in the title role of “Ritter Eisenfraß” (“Croquefer”). Alexander Kröner also sang the role of the Kommissar in Martinů’s opera “Juliette“ at the Schönbrunner Schlosstheater and toured with the Pons Artis Orchestra under the baton of Adrija Pavlic in a production of Mozart’s “Die Entführung aus dem Serail”, scoring a great success as Pedrillo. In the 2007-08 season he sang the role of Beppe in Donizetti’s one-act opera “Rita” at the festival Wiener Festwochen, followed by a return to Pedrillo, this time at the Neue Studio Bühne in Vienna, and Alfred in “Die Fledermaus” at the Schönbrunner Schlosstheater. He also made his debut with the Warsaw Philharmonic as Titzikan in the opera “Lodoïska” by Luigi Cherubini (under the musical guidance of KS Christa Ludwig) at the Warsaw Beethoven Festival.

In 2008-09 he joined the ensemble of the Staatstheater Mainz, where his role assignments included Monostatos (“Die Zauberflöte”), Don Basilio and Don Curzio (“Le Nozze di Figaro”), Dr. Blind (“Die Fledermaus”) and Andres (“Wozzeck”). This season he will be heard in Mainz as Remendado (“Carmen”), Goro (“Madama Butterfly”) and Wenzel (“Die verkaufte Braut”), and he will make guest appearances as Monostatos in the Theater Heidelberg.

He has performed on concert stages throughout Europe in operetta concerts as well as in song recitals and oratorio. At the Kremser Music Festival he has sung in Mozart’s “Litaniae Lauretanae”, Haydn’s “Missa Sancti Francisci” and Zelenka’s “Missa Gratias Agimus Tibi”  and most recently he gave his debut at the International Penderecki-Music-Festival at the Philharmonie Bydgoszcz in Poland.