The Austrian bass Oliver Sailer has been an ensemble member at the Tyrolean Landestheater Innsbruck since 2021. In the current season, he sings the Cook in Prokofjef’s “The Love for 3 Oranges” and Colline in Puccini’s “La bohème”, among others. He already attracted attention last year as Angelotti and Sagrestano (“Tosca”), as Sarastro (“The Magic Flute”), as Don Alfonso (“Cosi fan tutte”) and as Orest’s nurse (“Elektra”).
2022 saw the release of the recording of the St Matthew Passion with the Wiltener Boys’ Choir, featuring Oliver Sailer as Jesus. In the summer of 2021 he made his debut at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl as the 3rd Brabant nobleman in Wagner’s Lohengrin.
In 2021 Oliver Sailer completed his vocal studies at the Tyrolean State Conservatory with Prof. Johannes Stecher with distinciton. In addition, he completed his studies to be a mathematics teacher at the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck and in music education at the Mozarteum Salzburg, with singing as his main artistic subject under Prof. Peter Ullrich.
He is currently also studying singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (in cooperation with the Tyrolean State Conservatory).
At various master classes he had the opportunity to work with KS Peter Schreier, Univ. Prof. Karlheinz Hanser, KS Vesselina Kasarova, KS Prof. Olaf Bär and Prof. Michelle Breedt. He is a scholarship holder of the Academia Vocalis, the Eva Lind Music Academy Tyrol and the Richard Wagner Association.
In 2018 he was 1st prize winner at the “Musica Juventutis” competition and received an invitation for a song recital at the Vienna Konzerthaus. Due to his performance at this concert in March 2020, “Musica Juventutis” awarded him a special prize, whereupon he was invited to perform a song recital at the Blaibach Concert Hall.
During his training he already sang many concerts, such as Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and St Matthew Passion, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and Haydn’s Seasons. Concert tours have taken him to Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Romania and China, among other places.
Born in Hall in Tyrol in 1994, Oliver Sailer began his vocal training at the age of six with the renowned Wiltener Sängerknaben. He was soon engaged as a soprano soloist for masses and concerts. Through the participation of the Boys’ Choir in various opera performances, he was able to gain his first impressions of the theatre at an early age.
10/2023
