Philipp Kranjc

The Austrian-Slovenian bass Philipp Kranjc studied vocal performance at the Frankfurt University of the Arts (HfMdK) under Thomas Heyer, and art song and oratorio at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg under Bernd Valentin and Wolfgang Holzmair. For his Master’s degree, during which he focused extensively on the Slovenian lieder repertoire, he was awarded the Lilli Lehmann Medal by the International Mozarteum Foundation. In the 2018/19 season, he joined the opera studio at the Landestheater Linz. There, his roles included Collatinus in Britten’s *The Rape of Lucretia *, Geronimo in Cimarosa’s *Il matrimonio segreto* (*The Secret Marriage*), Orest’s guardian in *Elektra* and the Steersman in *Tristan und Isolde*. He has also taken on numerous roles in Mozart operas, such as Sarastro in *The Magic Flute*, Figaro and Antonio in *The Marriage of Figaro*, Masetto in *Don Giovanni * and Don Cassandro in *La finta semplice*. In the 2015/16 season, he made guest appearances at Oper Frankfurt as a soloist in the children’s opera programme, where he sang, amongst other roles, the title role in *Le nozze di Figaro* (*The Marriage of Figaro*). Philipp Kranjc is also active as a lieder and oratorio singer. As part of the ‘Baroque Vocal Mainz’ programme of excellence, he worked and performed with Andreas Scholl, Konrad Junghänel, Alfredo Bernardini and the EUBO Orchestra. Numerous recitals and concerts have taken him to festivals in Ljubljana – where a radio recording was made for RTV Slovenija – as well as to the Valletta Baroque Festival, AMUZ in Antwerp, St John’s Smith Square in London, the Gasteig in Munich, Hugo Wolf’s birthplace in Slovenj Gradec and the C. Bechstein Haus in Frankfurt am Main. Philipp Kranjc has been a member of the NRW Opera Studio since the 2020/21 season. At Dortmund Opera, he can be seen as Landéric in *Frédégonde* , and at the Musiktheater im Revier as Achilla/Curio in *Giulio Cesare*. In Wuppertal, he will appear on stage as the Speaker/2nd Armoured Man/2nd Priest in *The Magic Flute *. From the 2021–22 season onwards, Philipp Kranjc will be a permanent member of the ensemble at the MiR.