Born in Potsdam, Germany, Michael Baba studied voice at the "Hanns Eisler" University in Berlin with Heinz Reeh. At present, he regularly works with Bernhardt Adler and Gundula Hinz.

After a first engagement at the opera studio at the Dresden Semperoper, Michael Baba was very quickly offered guest contracts in Schwerin (Tamino/"Magic Flute"), and Mannheim (Narraboth/"Salome"). He then became a member of the Theatre of Muenster, followed by an engagement to the Metropoltheater in Berlin, and worked on his operetta repertoire during René Kollo's direction. A guest contract at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz was followed by a fix contract with roles like Duke of Urbino/“Night in Venice“, Symon/“The Beggar Student“, Hoffmann/“Counts of Hoffmann“, Tom Rakewell/“Rake`s Progress“, Governor, Vanderdendur and Ragotsci in a concert version of „Candide“ as well as Lucio in Wagner's „Liebesverbot“.

 

Since the season 2002/03, Michael Baba works on a free lance basis. Guest contracts took him among others to the Munich Gärtnerplatztheater, the Bavarian State Opera and the Theatre of Kassel. His repertoire includes Max in Weber's "Freischütz" which he sang in several German theatres (Dessau, Koblenz) at the Vienna Volksoper and the US, Erik ("Flying Dutchman") in Dessau and on a tour to Japan, Hans ("Bartered Bride") and Parsifal in Koblenz.

In 2006, he made his debut as Parsifal in the Tyrolean Festival of Erl, followed in 2007 by his debut as Siegmund in "The Walkyrie", under the baton of Gustav Kuhn. In 2006, Michael Baba also made his first appearance at the Vienna Volksoper (Max/"Freischütz" and Matthias Freudhofer/"Evangeli-mann"). In 2007, the Volksoper reinvited him to sing the demanding role of Pedro in D'Albert's "Tiefland", as well as again for Matthias Freudhofer in Kienzl's "Evangelimann" in 2008.

In 2008, Michael Baba gave his debut as Florestan in Beethoven's "Fidelio" at the May Festival in Guadalajara under the baton of Johannes Wildner. In 2008/2009, he sang Erik in the premiere of "The Flying Dutchman" at the Opera House of Leipzig under the baton of Leopold Hager and made his debut as Stolzing in the Tyrolean Festival in Erl again with Gustav Kuhn.

In 2009/10, he had great success as Florestan in Karlsruhe. Future engagements will be the Prince in Prokofief's "The Love for 3 Oranges" in Leipzig and the Emperor in R. Strauss' "The Woman without a Shadow" at the New National Theatre in Tokyo.

Michael Baba is a demanded concert singer. Among others he sang Beethoven's "9th Symphony" and "Christ on the Mount of Olives", Haydn's "Seasons", Honegger's "King David", Mozart's "Requiem" and Mahler's "The Song of the Earth" and "Missa Solemnis".

Michael Baba has worked with conductors like Sascha Götzel, Leopold Hager, Will Humburg, Lothar Koenigs, Gustav Kuhn, Jun Märkl, Marc Piollett, Christof Prick, Peter Schneider, David Stahl, Johannes Wildner and stage directors like Peer Boysen, August Everding, Johannes Felsenstein, Claus Guth, Marco Maria Marelli, Georg Quander, and Michael Quast.