Arno Raunig

Born in Klagenfurt, Austria, he started his career with the „Vienna Boys Choir“. He became soloist and had contact to famous conductors like Herbert von Karajan, Josef Krips or Karl Böhm early in his life. After the “Abitur” he started studying with various famous teachers such as KS Ruthilde Boesch, Erika Mechera, KS Kurt Equiluz (song and oratory), KS Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Hans Peter Blochwitz.   After his operadebut in the Stadttheater Klagenfurt in 1990 where he sang in Henry Purcell´s “The Fairy Queen”, productions in the Operahouse in Prague (Smetanova divadlo) and  the Operahouse Amsterdam, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Operahouse Zürich, the Operahouses in Rome, Paris, in Bonn, in Warschau (Wielki) and the Hamburger Staatsoper the towntheater of Wiesbaden and Darmstadt, the theatre Basel, the Prinzregententheater Munich the Hebbeltheater Berlin  the Tiroler Landestheater, the Wiener Jugendstiltheater, the Schönbrunner Schlosstheater, the Wiener Kammeroper followed. He looks back on cooperation with many famous artists like Gerd Albrecht, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Hartmut Hänchen, Ralf Weikert, Frieder Bernius, Max Pommer, Peter Eötvös, Jürgen Flimm, John Dew, Harry Kupfer, Claus Guth, Paul Angerer and others and has sung the parts of Sextus, Idamante, Hyazinth and Ascanio (W.A.Mozart); of Dardanus (J.A.Hasse); of Apollo (Britten, Cesti); of Amor and Orfeo (Chr.W.Gluck); of Orfeo (Cl.Monteverdi); of Mephostophiles (Alfred Schnittke - first night “Historia of Dr. Johann Faustus”); of Xerxes, Radamisto, Ruggiero, Cyrus, Heracles, Ariodante and Hamor (G.F.Händel); of Osmida (N.Jommelli);of Ruggiero (A.Vivaldi); of Polidor (J.M.Haydn); of Orlofsky ( “The Bat” Johann Strauß); of the “Fabelsohn” (Hans Gefors - after Botho Strauss “Der Park”- first night); of the “Death” (in Jahn Müller-Wielands “Das Märchen der 672. Nacht” after Hugo v. Hofmannsthal); of Prinz GoGo (in “Le grand macabre” by György Ligeti); of Creonte (in Midea 2 by Oskar Strasnoy – first night, or “Shakespeare-Sonetti” by Pavel Mykietyn, Alexander Wagendristl “Der Narr” and Sir Harrison Birtwistle – “The last supper”), of the “Cadence Macbeth” (in C.Macbeth by Norbert Zehm – first night). He took part in many first nights of Helmut Öhring such as “Dokumentation”, “Polaroids”(with the Ensemble Modern), “Effi Briest”, “Requiem”, “Bernarda Albas Haus”(after F.G. Lorca), “Sieben”, “Der Ort ist nicht der Ort” , “Blaumeer”,and” Unsichtbarland”. He also appeared in the Berlin Philharmonie, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Hamburg Concerthall(Laeiszhall) and CCH, El Auditorio National de Madrid, Paula de la Musica Catalana de Barcelona, the “Glocke” in Bremen, the Tonhalle Zürich, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Wiener Musikverein and Wiener Konzerthaus, the Hadynsaal Schloss Esterhazy, Joseph Keilberthhall Bamberg, Béla Bartók-Hall in Budapest. He has sung with many festivals as the Wiener Festwochen and the Wiener Musiksommer, with Wien Modern, the Maifestspiele in Dresden and Wiesbaden, the Händelfestspiele in Halle and Karlsruhe, the festival in Spoleto, Flandern Festival, the Kammermusikfest in Witten, the festival in Donaueschingen, Ludwigsburg, Luzern, Wroclaw, in the Rheingaufestival, the Ruhrtriennale, the Farinelli-festival Andria, Festival del Arte in Poland and many others. He also worked with famous Ensemble like Klangforum Vienna, Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, Ictus from Belgium, Les Menestrels Vienna.   5 Solo-CD´s and one Pop-CD (with Jose Feliciano, the Vienna Boys Choir, Supermax and Tim Pierce on it).   Carrier of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Sience and Culture and the Big Decoration of Carinthia.