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= Thomas Ebenstein = Thomas Ebenstein (born 1979 in Carinthia) is an Austrian operatic tenor. He is known for his performances in the tenor buffo and character tenor repertoire.

Career
Ebenstein studied singing with Helena Łazarska and Lied with KS Robert Holl at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

The tenor started his career in 2003 as a member of the ensemble of the Komische Oper Berlin, where he stayed until 2012. Since the 2012/2013 season, he has been a member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera where he appeared in 314 performances in 37 productions (of which 15 were new).

He has made guest appearances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Staatsoper Hamburg, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Theater an der Wien, and festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Salzburg Easter Festival, the Wiener Festwochen, the Ruhrtriennale, the Bergen International Festival, and the Hong Kong Arts Festival.

Focusing on tenor buffo and character tenor repertoire, his first roles included Pedrillo in Mozart' s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Basilio in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Monostatos in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, and Jaquino in Beethoven's Fidelio. He expanded his repertoire to the operas of Richard Strauss with such roles as First Jew in Salome, Young Servant and Aegisth in Elektra, Valzacchi in Der Rosenkavalier, Dancing Master in Ariadne auf Naxos, Hunchback in Die Frau ohne Schatten and Monsieur Taupe in Capriccio. His Wagner repertoire includes the Steuermann in Der Fliegende Holländer, David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Mime in Das Rheingold and Siegfried. In general, his broad list of operatic roles spans from the Scrivener in Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina, Shujsky in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Marquis in Prokofiev's The Gambler, Truffaldino in Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges, to the four tenor roles of Andrès, Cochenille, Frantz and Pitichinaccio in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, also encompassing operas of the 20th century (Kudrjaš in Janáček's Káťa Kabanová, Vítek in The Makropulos Affair, Andres in Berg's Wozzeck, Jack O'Brien and Fatty in Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Bob Boles in Britten's Peter Grimes and Count Kent in Reimann's Lear) and the 21st century (Caliban in Adès' The Tempest, Menelaos in Trojahn's Orest, and Edgar in the world premiere of Staud's Die Weiden).

In addition to opera, the tenor is also a frequent performer in concerts at prestigious venues such as the Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Dortmund Konzerthaus, the Hamburg Laeiszhalle, the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Auditorium di Milano, and festivals such as the Verbier Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.

He has worked with a number of prestigious conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Christoph Eschenbach, Philippe Jordan, Zubin Metha, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle, Christian Thielemann and Franz Welser-Möst.

Also, he collaborates frequently with the pianists David Lutz and Charles Spencer and is passionate about German Lied. In 2018, his debut solo recording with Lieder from Richard Strauss, Korngold, Zemlinsky and Schönberg was released on Capriccio (Première Portraits).

Overall, Ebenstein has established himself as a versatile and accomplished tenor in the international opera scene.

Awards
Thomas Ebenstein received several awards:


 * in 2001 at the International Dvořak Competition in Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
 * in 2003 the Musica Juventutis Competition at the Vienna Konzerthaus
 * in 2007 the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation granted him a scholarship for the Bayreuth Festival