German baritone Martin Häßler is acclaimed for his artistic versatility that spans major operatic repertoire, high-profile concert work and internationally recognised Lied performance. He has established himself as an artist equally at home on the opera stage, in major concert halls and in the world of song.

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During his time as a member of the Vienna State Opera ensemble, he appeared in a wide range of roles, including Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus), Ping (Turandot), Fritz Kothner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Donner (Das Rheingold), Melot (Tristan und Isolde), Don Fernando (Fidelio), Schaunard (La Bohème), Ned Keene (Peter Grimes), Masetto (Don Giovanni), Cesare Angelotti (Tosca) and First Nazarene (Salome). He also performed Simon in Haydn’s The Seasons with the Vienna State Ballet.

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Forthcoming engagements include his role debut as Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the St Barts Festival, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Thomanerchor and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under Andreas Reize, Bach’s St John Passion with the RIAS Kammerchor and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin under Justin Doyle, a new production of Der Waffenschmied for Oper Leipzig’s LORTZING 26, and Schubert’s Winterreise with Akemi Murakami for LiedERLEBEN Munich.

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Previous opera appearances include Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (Nevill Holt Opera; The Sage Gateshead), Heerrufer in Lohengrin, Monterone in Rigoletto, Ratzekahl in Schreker’s Irrelohe and Don Iñigo in Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole (Opéra de Lyon), Il Gran Sacerdote in Nabucco (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Opéra de Vichy), Siegfried in Schumann’s Genoveva (Tonhalle Düsseldorf), Collatinus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia (Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg; Theater Gera-Altenburg) and Henze’s Ein Landarzt (Barbican Centre, London).

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In concert, he is a frequent interpreter of the major Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoire. Recent appearances include Haydn’s The Seasons with the Wiener Singakademie under Heinz Ferlesch at the Konzerthaus Wien, Bach’s Passions and Christmas Oratorio (Frauenkirche Dresden), Handel’s Jephtha and Judas Maccabaeus (Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich), Haydn’s The Creation, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Paulus. In 2023 he made his Japan debut in Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki in Tokyo.

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A committed recitalist, he has performed at Wigmore Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, Klavierfestival Ruhr (with Graham Johnson), LIFE Victoria Barcelona (with Julius Drake), Oxford Lieder (with Sholto Kynoch and Bengt Forsberg), LSO St Luke’s, Der Lyrische Salon (with Daniel Heide) and the Vienna Musikverein. He also sang Mahler’s Rückert Lieder with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi.

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He has collaborated with leading conductors including Christian Thielemann, Franz Welser-Möst, Ádám Fischer, Masaaki Suzuki, Simone Young and Andrés Orozco-Estrada, and with stage directors such as Frank Castorf, Calixto Bieito, David Bösch, Keith Warner, Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito.

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Martin studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he worked with Rudolf Piernay and Janice Chapman. He is currently mentored by Robert Dean. A former scholar of the German National Academic Foundation, he now works with mentoringArts at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig.