Hubert
Wild Baritone

Hubert Wild was born in Karlsruhe. He studied violin and piano as well as singing with Rudolf Bautz in Aachen and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Berlin. His first engagements took him to the theatres in Aachen, Stralsund/Greifswald and Heidelberg, among others, before he became a permanent ensemble member of the Salzburg State Theatre in 2009. He has worked at numerous European theatres and opera houses, including the Berlin State Opera, Bern Theatre and Zurich Opera House, and has performed at renowned festivals and concert halls throughout Europe. For example, he interpreted Orfeo in Susanne Kennedy's Monteverdi adaptation at the Ruhrtriennale and at the Berlin Festival. He has won prizes at the Toti dal Monte International Singing Competition in Treviso/Italy, the International Singing Competition of the Rheinsberg Castle Chamber Opera and the 13th International Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau, among others. He is in demand as a baritone and countertenor, in modern and classical music theatre works as well as a soloist in oratorios and as a Lied interpreter. Since his first collaboration with Herbert Fritsch at the Bremen Theatre as Falsacappa in Offenbach's 'Die Banditen', he has appeared regularly in theatre productions, including at the Volksbühne and Schaubühne in Berlin, the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Burgtheater Vienna, the Schauspiel Leipzig and the Staatstheater Braunschweig. At Theater Basel, he has already appeared in 'Intermezzo', 'Die Nase', 'Vergeigt' and 'Pferd frisst Hut', among others.