Soloist

Hans Gröning

Hans Gröning lives in Berlin and has been working as a freelance singer since 2004. He trained as a singer with Gisela Schröter and made his debut as a prize-winner of the international singing competition at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg.

In 2006, he appeared as a guest artist in a Belgian production of Wolfgang Rihm’s »Jakob Lenz« at the Copenhagen Opera House, in Brussels, Rotterdam, Luxembourg and at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. He is a frequent guest at the Komische Oper Berlin, where his roles have included Farfarello in »The Love for the Three Oranges« (directed by Andreas Homoki), the role of Albany in Reimann’s »Lear« (directed by Hans Neuenfels) and the Gypsy in Mussorgsky’s »The Fair at Sorochintsi« (directed by Barrie Kosky). Among the most important roles in his repertoire are Alban Berg’s Wozzeck, Paul Hindemith’s Cardillac, Telramund (»Lohengrin«) and Alberich (»Das Rheingold«). At the Staatstheater Nürnberg, he played the title role in the new production of »Jakob Lenz« (directed by Tilman Knabe). This was followed in 2020 by the role of the Pirate King in Sullivan’s »The Pirates of Penzance« (directed by Christian Brey) and, in 2023, General Bumm in »La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein« (directed by Andreas Kriegenburg). He also made a guest appearance at the National Theatre in Mannheim as Bartolo (»Il barbiere di Siviglia«) and made his role debut at the Osnabrück Theatre in the title role of Jaromír Weinberger’s »Wallenstein«. He made his debut at the Landestheater Linz in 2025 as Prince Ypsheim in »Wiener Blut«, and at the Lehár Festival in Bad Ischl in 2026 he sang the role of Lambertuccio in »Boccaccio« (directed by Thomas Enzinger).

Hans Gröning has had close ties with the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz since 2013. Following his debut as Colonel Ollendorf (»Der Bettelstudent«), he was cast as Prince Ypsheim (»Wiener Blut«) and, for the theatre’s reopening, as Baron Zeta in »Die lustige Witwe«. In Peter Konwitschny’s production of Oscar Straus’s operetta »Der tapfere Soldat«, he sang the role of Colonel Popoff. He also appeared in Munich as Bartolo in the new production of »Il barbiere di Siviglia« (directed by Josef E. Köpplinger).