Daniel Gutmann
The Lower Austrian baritone Daniel Gutmann has been a member of the ensemble at Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich since 2019, where he has performed roles such as Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Il Conte (Le nozze di Figaro), Escamillo (Carmen), Javert (Les Misérables), and Albert (Werther).
Gutmann received his musical training in Herzogenburg, St. Pölten, and Vienna. He studied voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna under Julia Bauer-Huppmann and classical guitar under Melitta Heinzmann. While still a student, he performed roles such as Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Leporello (Don Giovanni), and Toante (Oreste) at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn in Vienna, as well as Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and the title role in Don Giovanni at various studio and off-theater venues.
Further engagements have taken him to the Salzburg Festival (Der Prozess), Staatstheater Nürnberg (Dandini in La Cenerentola), Theater St. Gallen (Javert in Les Misérables), the Wiener Konzerthaus (Mass), Kurtheater Baden near Zurich (Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus), Theater Rigiblick in Zurich (Dromio E. in Gli Equivoci), and Stadttheater Baden near Vienna (Die Kaiserin). In the field of children's opera, he portrayed Buonafede (Il mondo della luna) at the jOPERA festival in Burgenland and was a member of Animato, a music theater company offering opera workshops for children in Austria and Germany (Don Giovanni and Die Kluge).
In addition to his operatic career, Daniel Gutmann is highly dedicated to concert and art song performance. Growing up with choral music, he began his solo career at an early age. His recitals and concert tours have taken him to New York, Singapore, Washington D.C., Texas, as well as throughout Austria and Germany. A regular highlight in his calendar is the classical music festival Kulturfest Traisental at Schloss Walpersdorf in Lower Austria. Since 2021, he has also been a frequent guest on Bavarian television, performing operetta and Wienerlieder.
In 2021, he appeared as Don Giovanni in the Austrian film comedy Die Unschuldsvermutung, broadcast on ORF and ARD, and in 2023, he was featured as a soloist in the ORF musical documentary Amadeus, Amadeus – Winterklang Salzburg. That same year, his solo album Tränenflut, featuring Schumann songs based on Heinrich Heine’s poetry and recorded with pianist Maximilian Kromer, was released by Gramola.
He is a prizewinner of several national and international vocal competitions, including Elīna Garanča’s ZukunftsStimmen, the Petyrek-Lang Song Competition, and Iuventus Canti. Additionally, he holds a degree in sports science from the University of Vienna and competed in decathlon as athlete for the Viennese athletics club DSG.
Beyond his classical career, he is also the frontman and songwriter of the country band The Groovecake Factory, with which he has won numerous awards in Austria and abroad and recorded two albums.