Austrian baritone Christoph Filler is equally in demand on concert and opera stages:
He is currently appearing as Sweeney Todd at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin. In 2025, he made his role debut in the title role of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” under Masato Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan. He opened the 2024/25 season as Gabriel von Eisenstein in a concert performance of “The Bat” with Les Musiciens du Louvre under Marc Minkowski at the Musikfest Bremen. Prior to that, in the summer of 2024, Christoph Filler made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as part of the opening week’s festivities with Schoenberg’s short opera “Die glückliche Hand” and Gustav Mahler’s “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen” in Arnold Schoenberg’s arrangement for chamber orchestra, with the Divertimento Viennese Orchestra under the baton of Vinzenz Praxmarer.
In addition to performances at the Musikverein in Vienna and Graz in Haydn’s “Mass in C Major” with the Concentus Musicus Wien under Stefan Gottfried and, among others, Bach’s “Magnificat” with the Orchester Wiener Akademie under Martin Haselböck, he has recently been heard as a soloist in Bach’s “St. John Passion” (arias/Pilate) with the Catalan ensemble Le Concert des Nations and La Capella Nacional de Catalunya under Jordi Savall.
He returned to the MusikTheater an der Wien in the lead role of Richard III as part of a pastiche based on Shakespeare’s drama “Richard III” and music by Henry Purcell, having previously made his house debut there in a new production of Vicente Martín y Solér’s “L’arbore di Diana.”
In the 2022–23 season, he made his debut as Dr. Falke in Strauss’s *Die Fledermaus* at the Theater St. Gallen. He returned to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf as Gabriel von Eisenstein in Axel Köhler’s production of *Die Fledermaus*. Other concert engagements include Steen Pade’s orchestral song cycle “Am Abend” for baritone and orchestra in Flensburg and Sønderborg under Johannes Wildner, Schubert’s “Mass in E-flat Major” with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Cristian Măcelaru, and Bach’s “St. John Passion” (Christ) with Concentus Musicus under the direction of Stefan Gottfried.
Guest appearances in Peter Eötvös’s “Der goldene Drache”, as Haly in Rossini’s “L’Italiana in Algeri”, and in the title role of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” brought him to the Innsbruck Landestheater, as did his roles as Toni Schlumberger (“Die Zirkusprinzessin”) and Dr. Falke (“The Bat”) to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, as Belcore (“L’elisir d’amore”) to the Daegu Opera House, as Dr. Falke (“The Bat”) to the Staatstheater Darmstadt, and as Figaro (“Le nozze di Figaro”) to the Theater Chemnitz.
His concert repertoire includes, among others, Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” (arias & Christ), “St. John Passion” (arias & Christ), Handel’s “Messiah” and “Alexander’s Feast,” Haydn’s “The Seasons” and “The Creation,” Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9,” Brahms’s “German Requiem,” and Orff’s “Carmina Burana”—with which he has performed at venues including the Vienna Konzerthaus.
Christoph Filler made his debut at the Vienna Musikverein with Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” with the Orchester Wiener Akademie under Martin Haselböck, with whom he also performed in Mozart’s “Requiem” and in Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” in Los Angeles. He also appeared as Christ in the “St. Matthew Passion” at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.
In Haydn’s “The Creation,” he sang the roles of Raphael and Adam with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg under Theodor Guschlbauer and on tour with the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées under Philippe Herreweghe.
Christoph Filler is also a sought-after performer of art songs. As part of “Michael Schade’s Music Salon,” Christoph Filler performed Schubert’s “Winterreise.” His core lieder repertoire also includes Schubert’s major cycles “Die schöne Müllerin” and “Schwanengesang,” as well as Schumann’s “Dichterliebe,” alongside a wide range of Loewe ballads, Brahms’s lieder, and Mahler’s song cycles “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen” and “Kindertotenlieder.”
From 2016 to 2019, Christoph Filler was a permanent ensemble member of the Munich State Theater am Gärtnerplatz, where he appeared on stage as Guglielmo (“Cosi fan tutte”), Papageno (“The Magic Flute”), Dr. Malatesta (“Don Pasquale”), Count Eberbach (“The Poacher”), Sir Edgar’s Secretary (“The Young Lord”), and Danilo (“The Merry Widow”).
In 2013–14, he was a member of the International Opera Studio Zurich, where he prepared roles such as Guglielmo (“Cosi fan tutte”), Marullo (“Rigoletto”), and Ned Keene (“Peter Grimes”) and performed many other roles on stage.
Christoph Filler studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Peter Edelmann and earned a master’s degree in Lied & Oratorio under Florian Boesch.
03/2026
