Alexander
Kaimbacher

Alexander Kaimbacher was born in Villach and now lives with his family in Vienna. He studied singing, acting, Waldorf education, theater, film, and media studies. Since 1998, Alexander Kaimbacher has been working as a freelance opera and concert singer and was a member of the Vienna and Bavarian State Opera ensembles. He is a professor of singing at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz and teaches singing at the Vienna State Opera's opera school.
His particular strength lies in his intense interpretation of words and music in character roles such as Loge, Candide, Eisenstein, Celebrant, and Aschenbach. In 2019, he made his role debut at the Zurich Opera House as the Holy Drinker Piet vom Fass in György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre. This was followed in 2021 by the Painter in Berg's LULU at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, Eiger by Fabian Müller in Biel/Solothurn, Toteis by Manuela Kerer in Bolzano, and Egmont by Christian Jost in Bielefeld. There he also made his role debut as Parsifal in 2023, staged in a new format as a light opera.

In 2023, he also took on the role of HIOB at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt in the new opera of the same name by Bernhard Lang and Michael Sturminger, based on the novel by Joseph Roth, which was awarded the Austrian Theater Prize in September 2024.

In 2024, he sang in Offenbach's Die Banditen at the Komische Oper Berlin, as well as in Hamburg, Cologne, and Paris in Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten. The coming season will be dominated by Johann Strauss, with one performance of Die Fledermaus in Israel and one at the Theater an der Wien, as well as Indigo und die 23 Räuber*innen in all 23 districts of Vienna at the Strauss Festival Vienna.