Biography
Since 2023, German tenor Maximilian Mayer has pursued a freelance career, making his Wagner debut in April 2023 as Froh at the Staatstheater Kassel. In the 2024/25 season, he made his debut at the Theater an der Wien as Cervantes in Johann Strauss’s operetta Das Spitzentuch der Königin.
In the same season, the tenor appeared in France as Tamino in a new production of The Magic Flute at the Opéra de Rennes as well as the Angers Nantes Opéra. He has also appeared in this signature role at Oper Leipzig, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Theater Dortmund, Staatstheater Kassel, and Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich.
Maximilian Mayer is also in demand as a concert soloist: In the summer of 2025, he performed Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust in Kassel and appeared at the renowned Grafenegg Festival, singing both Alfred and Eisenstein in a concert performance of Johann Strauss’ The Bat. In 2022, he took part in the New Year’s Concert with the Nürnberger Symphoniker at the Meistersingerhalle. Concerts with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Kiel followed in 2023 and 2024, performing Bernstein’s Candide and Mendelssohn’s Paulus.
In the 2023/24 season, Maximilian Mayer performed as Camille de Rosillon in The Merry Widow at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. He reprised this role in December 2023 at Oper Köln and in May 2024 at Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen.
Born in Regensburg, Maximilian Mayer completed his vocal studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna cum laude in 2016.
From 2016 to 2023, he was a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, where he appeared in roles including Tamino (The Magic Flute), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Eisenstein (The Bat) and the title role in Candide.
Guest engagements have additionally taken him to the Semperoper Dresden, Theater Heidelberg, Theater Koblenz, Lehár Festival in Bad Ischl, Operklosterneuburg Festival and Seefestspiele Mörbisch.
In September 2015 he won not only first prize in the musicals and operetta division but also the audience choice prize and the special prize for the best interpretation of a Viennese Lied at the Heinrich Strecker Cross-Over Competition.
