MARKUS EICHE was born in St. Georgen im Schwarzwald,
he studied in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart and is a prizewinner of several national
and international competitions. He started his career at the National theater
Mannheim, and there played the roles of Marcello (La Bohème), Wolfram (Tannhäuser),
Papageno (Zauberflöte), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) as well as the
leading roles in Wozzeck and Don Giovanni. In the season 2007/2008, he became an
ensemble member of the Wiener Staatsoper and sang among others, Marcello,
Jeletzki, Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Albert (Werther), Lescaut (Manon),
Fritz/Frank, Valentin (Faust), Donner (Das Rheingold), Gunther (Götterdämmerung),
Eugen Onegin, Don Juan (Aus einem Totenhaus), and Dr. Falke (Die
Fledermaus). In addition, he has appeared as a guest at the Salzburger
Festspielen, the Milan Scala, the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, the Semperoper
Dresden, the Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin, the Finnish National Opera, the Gran
Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, the Münchner Staatsoper and at the Bayreuther
Festspielen. Since autumn 2012, Markus Eiche
teaches at the Zurich Hochschhule der Künste. http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/kuenstler/saengerinnen/Eiche.en.php
