The Austrian bass Oliver Sailer has been an ensemble member at the Tyrolean Landestheater Innsbruck since 2021 and can be seen there this season as Pistola (G. Verdi: ‘Falstaff’) and Gremin (P.I. Tschaikovsky: ‘Eugene Onegin’) among others. In recent years, he has already attracted attention as the Cook in Prokofiev’s ‘The Love for Three Oranges’ and as Colline in Puccini’s ‘La bohème’, as Angelotti and Sagrestano (‘Tosca’), as Sarastro (‘The Magic Flute’), as Don Alfonso (‘Cosi fan tutte’) and as Orest’s nurse (‘Elektra’).
The recording of the St Matthew Passion with the Wilten Boys’ Choir, in which Oliver Sailer can be heard as Jesus, was released in 2022. In summer 2021, he made his debut at the Tyrolean Festival Erl as the 3rd Brabant Noble in Wagner’s Lohengrin.
In 2021, Oliver Sailer completed his vocal studies at the Tyrolean State Conservatory under Prof. Johannes Stecher with distinction. He also completed his teacher training in mathematics at the Leopold Franzens University in 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.
He already sang many concerts during his training, 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 Boys’ Choir. 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.
09/2024
