Roman Payer

The 2024/25 season sees Roman Payer singing JAMES in the world premier of American Mother by Charlotte Bray at Theater Hagen, PARSIFAL at the Goetheanum Dornach, Switzerland, and MAX Der Freischütz at Staatstheater Cottbus.

Roman’s most recent appearances include SIEGMUND Die Walküre Theater Coburg, WALTER Die Passagierin Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, 1. FREMDE Der Vetter aus Dingsda Staatstheater Klagenfurt, MAX Jonny Plays Krenek, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatztheater Munich, SERGEJ Lady Macbeth of Mzensk Theater Hagen, PETER GRIMES Staatstheater Oldenburg, ALFRED Die Fledermaus Stadttheater Klagenfurt and MAX Der Freischütz Kaohsiung & Taipei, Taiwan.

Born in Vienna, Roman Payer began his musical training at the age of eight with the Vienna Boys' Choir, also appearing in productions at Volksoper Wien and at the Wiener Staatsoper. Roman completed his singing studies at the Conservatoire Wien with Helga Wagner and Lucia Meschwitz.

He was a member of the fest- ensemble at Staatstheater Augsburg and Landestheater Coburg, starting as a lyric tenor, before later switching to Jugendliche Heldentenor.

Roman Payer has sung at the Semperoper, Dresden (TAMINO, LENSKI, KRONTHAL, MAX), Opera Leipzig (TAMINO), Bayrische Staatsoper (2. JUDE), Staatstheater Saarbrücken (FERDINAND Der Sturm Martin), Landestheater Salzburg (OEDIPUS, HUON Frühlingsstürme Weinberger), Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck (TICHON Kata Kabanova, MAX, WALTER), Theater St. Gallen (LENSKI, BELMONTE, FLORESTAN, MAX, PHOEBUS Notre Dame Schmidt), Seefestspiele Mörbisch (TASSILO Gräfin Mariza) and Komische Oper Berlin (MAJOR ITO Frühlingsstürme Weinberger).

His future engagements include a return to the Staatstheater Cottbus as MAX and to the Goetheanum Dornach as PARSIFAL and taking on the TAMBOURMAJOR Wozzeck in a new production at Theater Lübeck.