Austrian tenor David Kerber has earned attention as a rising young star in lyric repertoire. Kerber has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Volksoper Wien since the 22/23 and debuted recently as Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Reisopera in Holland under Marcus Merkel. This season 23/24, Kerber will perform the role of Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Alfredo in La traviata at Volksoper Wien, and Froh in Das Rheingold at Staatsoper Stuttgart. 

David Kerber made his operatic debut in 2019 at the Bregenzer Festspiele. In the Kornmarkt Opera Studio, Kerber performed as Triquet in Eugene Onegin under Valentin Uryupin and as Paggio on the lake stage in Rigoletto under Enrique Mazzola. In 2021, Kerber sang in Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Tyrolean Festival Erl and in the Tyrolean State Theater in Peter Eötvös’s Der goldene Dragon.

Operetta is important to the young artist’s repertoire and Kerber performed alongside Angelika Kirchschlager in their portrait concert at the Vienna Kaffeesiederball, and on the stage of the Vienna Volksoper as Alfred in Johann Stauss’s Die Fledermaus. The role of Alfred, which is David Kerber’s operetta debut, also leads him to the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp in 2023 under the direction of Alexander Joel.

David Kerber began his classical singing training at the young age of five with the Wilten Boys’ Choir and studied there with Professor Johannes Stecher. An artist since childhood,the young tenor David Kerber is gifted in the interpretation of Baroque music for which he has devoted particular attention. In fact, Kerber recorded the role of the Evangelist in the St Matthew Passion together with the Academia Jacobus Stainer and the Wilten Boys’ Choir.

Kerber has also collaborated extensively with many internationally respected artists such as KS Angelika Kirchschlager, KS Brigitte Fassbaender and Linda Watson. The young tenor is a prize winner of many international competitions and foundations, such as the sponsorship prize of the Professor Armin Weltner Foundation in Zurich at the Scala in Milan and numerous awarded prizes at the International Haydn Singing Competition 2021 in Rohrau, the 36th Concorso Internationale di Canto “Maria Caniglia” in Sulmona as well as at the Future Voices competition by Elina Granča. The young artist has also performed in a recording for the film music in “Zwei Herren im Anzug” by Josef Bierbichler, which was released in cinemas in 2018. 

In addition to his collaborations with highly acclaimed artists like Maresa Hörbiger and more, Kerber has performed in a series of special events including several song recitals “Die Dichterliebe – ein lichter Traum” at the Semmering cultural summer and at Jeunesse. 

With the project “Der Dichter Liebe”, Leah Maria Huber, David Kerber and Miriam Reinstadler wrote and staged an independent piece about the core of poet’s love by Robert Schumann. This melodrama, which was brilliantly received by the audience, led the trio to the artistic direction of the of their newly founded festival “Alles Lied.” in Breitenwang in Tyrol.