Philipp Kapeller

Born in

Innsbruck/Austria

Education

• Tyrolean State Conservatory
• University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

Engagements

• Staatstheater Braunschweig
• Staatsoper Hannover
• Staatstheater Oldenburg
• Theater Bremen
• Seefestspiele Mörbisch
• Schlosstheater Schönbrunn

Important Roles

• La fille du régimentTonio
• The Abduction from the SeraglioBelmonte
• The Magic FluteMonostatos
• La CenerentolaDon Ramiro
• The BatAlfred
• The Merry WidowCamille de Rosillon

The Austrian tenor Philipp Kapeller will join the ensemble of the Staatstheater Braunschweig in the 2025/26 season, where he will sing roles such as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Alfred (The Bat), Horace Adams (Peter Grimes) and Tebaldo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi). In the same season, he will make his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Peter Ivanov in the new production of Zar und Zimmermann.

From 2019 – 2025, Philipp Kapeller was a member of the ensemble at the Hanover State Opera, where he appeared as Peppe (I Pagliacci), Monostatos (The Magic Flute) and Prince Andreas Stephan in Paul Abraham’s operetta Märchen im Grand Hotel, among others. In 2025, he took on the tenor role in a staged production of Carl Orff’s Carmina burana at the Braunschweig State Theatre.

In recent years, he has appeared as Rosillon (The Merry Widow) at the Austrian festival at Tabor Castle, as Belmonte in Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio in Zwickau and Chemnitz, as well as in the tenor roles in Udo Zimmermann’s Der Schuhu and Die fliegende Prinzessin, also at Chemnitz Opera (released on CD by Rondeau).

From 2014-2019 he was a member of the ensemble of the Oldenburg State Theatre, where he performed roles such as Belmonte (The Abduction from the Seraglio), Ramiro (La Cenerentola), Lord Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor) Tito Vespasiano (La clemenza di Tito), Fenton (Falstaff), Tonio (La fille du régiment), Camille de Rosillon (The Merry Widow), Lysander in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Johan in Cristina, Regina Di Svezia by Jacopo Foroni; Hyllus in Haendel’s opera Hercules and the Prince in Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne by Philippe Boesmans.

The young tenor enjoyed great success at the 2017 Mörbisch Lake Festival as Stanislaus in Carl Zeller’s The Bird Seller and in 2018 with a 3-tenor gala concert at the Peter Dvorsky Festival in the Czech Republic.

During his studies, Philipp Kapeller sang Basilio in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, 1st Elder in a staged version of Handel’s oratorio Susanna, Alfred in J. Strauss’ The Bat and Ferrando in Mozart’s Cosí fan tutte at Schönbrunn Palace Theatre between 2012 and 2014. In 2013, he gained valuable experience as Spoletta in Puccini’s Tosca in a semi-staged production at the Royal Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool under the direction of Vasily Petrenko alongside Bryn Terfel.

He made his opera debut in 2010 in Alicante/Spain in a Yewoon Opera Group production as Monostatos in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. In 2011, he sang a staged performance of the Bach cantata Hercules at the Crossroads with the Bach Collegium Zurich as part of the International Bach Festival in Zurich. In the same year, he sang in the children’s opera Aladdin and the Magic Lamp by Nino Rota at the Vienna State Opera.

Philipp Kapeller is a prizewinner of the national music competition Gradus ad Parnassum, received a special prize for the best interpretation of baroque music and was a finalist at the First International Otto Edelmann Competition in Vienna in 2013. As a participant in the 2016 Académie Mozart at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, he was awarded the Friends of the Festival Prize.

The young Tyrolean received his first vocal training at the age of ten with the Wilten Boys’ Choir, where he gained experience as a boy soloist at concerts and masses. He also had piano lessons and learnt the trombone.

After preparatory studies at the Tyrolean State Conservatory, he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Prof Karlheinz Hanser and Charles Spencer-Smith.

06/2025

Abraham, Paul

• Märchen im Grand-Hotel Prinz Andreas Stephan

Beethoven, Ludwig van

• Fidelio Jaquino

Boesmans, Philippe

• Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne Prinz

Boieldieu, François-Adrien

• La dame blanche John Dikson

Britten, Benjamin

• A Midsummer Night's Dream Lysander

Donizetti, Gaetano

• La fille du régiment Tonio
• Lucia di Lammermoor Lord Arturo Bucklaw

Dove, Jonathan

• The Adventures of Pinocchio Lampwick

Foroni, Jacopo

• Cristina, Regina di Svezia Johann

Haydn, Joseph

• L'isola disabitata  Gernando

Haendel, Georg Friedrich

• Hercules Hylus

Hasse, Johann Adolph

• Siroe Cosroe

Kander, John

• Chicago Amos Hart

Künneke, Eduard

• Der Vetter aus Dingsda August Kuhbrot

Lehár, Franz

• The Merry Widow Camille de Rosillon

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

• La finta giardiniera Belfiore, Basilio
• Le nozze di Figaro Don Curzio
• The Magic Flute Monostatos
• Cosi fan tutte Ferrando
• The Abduction from the Seraglio Belmonte, Pedrillo 
• La clemenza di Tito Tito Vespasiano
• Don Giovanni Don Ottavio

Puccini, Giacomo

• Tosca Spoletta
• Manon Lescaut Edmondo, Lampionaio

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

• Les Paladins Atis, Manto

Ravel, Maurice

• L'heure espagnole Torquemada

Rossini, Gioachino

• Il barbiere di Siviglia Il Conte Almaviva
• La Cenerentola Don Ramiro 

Sondheim, Steven

• Sweeney Todd Tobias Ragg

Strauss, Johann

• The Bat Alfred

Strauss, Richard

• Salome First Jew

Verdi, Giuseppe

• Falstaff Fenton
• Macbeth Malcolm
• Rigoletto Borsa

Wagner, Richard

• Das Rheingold Froh

Zeller, Carl

• The Bird Seller Adam, Stanislaus

Comedien Harmonists

• Comedian Harmonists Ari Leschnikoff

BACH, Johann Sebastian

• Weihnachtsoratorium
• Johannespassion
• Kantate BWV 214 Herkules auf dem Scheidewege
• Kantate BWV 106 Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit
• Kantate BWV 182 Himmelskönig sei Willkommen

BACH, Carl Philipp Emmanuel

• Magnificat

HÄNDEL, Georg Friedrich

• Dettinger Te Deum HWV 283
• Susanna First Elder
• The Messiah

ORFF, Carl

• Carmina Burana

MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, Felix

• Elias
• Lobgesang

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