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title = "Günther Groissböck"
website = "http://www.guenther-groissboeck.com/"

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Günther Groissböck studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, first with Robert Holl and later with José van Dam. He is a regular guest at leading venues worldwide, such as the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Milan Scala, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Vienna State Opera, the Opéra de Paris, the State Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festival. His operatic repertoire includes Baron Ochs (_Der Rosenkavalier_), Boris Godunov, Fasolt, Hunding (_Die Walküre_), Landgraf Herrmann (_Tannhäuser_), Veit Pogner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), König Marke (_Tristan und Isolde_), Gurnemanz (_Parsifal_), King Heinrich (_Lohengrin_), Daland (_The Flying Dutchman_), Caspar (_The Freischütz_), Vodník (_Rusalka_), Sarastro (_The Magic Flute_), Kecal (_The Bride Sold_), Rocco (_Fidelio_).

Günther Groissböck is also an active concert artist who performs in the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, in the Leipzig Gewandhaus, in the Munich and Berlin Philharmonic, in the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, in Carnegie Hall and in the Boston Symphony Hall. Conductors with whom he worked include Philippe Jordan, James Levine, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Zubin Mehta, John Eliot Gardiner, Antonio Pappano, Kirill Petrenko and Andris Nelsons.

His most recent DVD releases include _Der Rosenkavalier_ from Salzburg (2015) and the Metropolitan Opera (2017) as well as Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Philippe Jordan. He is also represented on several CDs, such as _Das Rheingold_ and _Lohengrin_ with Marek Janowski, Mahler 8th Symphony and Anton Bruckner's Mass No. 3. As the exclusive recording artist of DECCA Classic, he released his double album with Schubert's _Winterreise_ and _Schwanengesang_ in 2017 and the new one in 2018 CD "Herz-Tod", which contains Wagner's "Wesendonck-Lieder", Mahler's "Rückert-Lieder" and Brahms "Vier Ernste Gesänge".

He will return to his future engagements at the Metropolitan Opera for _Tristan and Isolde_, the Vienna State Opera for _Simon Boccanegra_ and _Rosenkavalier_ and the Paris Opera for _Capriccio_. His role debuts as Wotan in the new "Ring des Nibelungen" cycle 2020 at the Bayreuth Festival, as Fiesco in _Simon Boccanegra_ at the Vienna State Opera and as Philippe II in the new _Don Carlos_ production at the Metropolitan Opera New York.

Concert engagements will take him to Paris, Vienna, New York and Boston in the 2019/2020 season.