Tenor Rainer Trost has appeared at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the State Operas in Munich, Dresden and Vienna, the Opéra Bastille, the Metropolitan Opera, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Cologne Opera, the Theater an der Wien, and the Salzburg Festival. Concert appearances have taken the singer to concert halls in Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Zurich and Lisbon, as well as to the Musikverein in Vienna.
He has sung under conductors such as C. Abbado, N. Harnoncourt, R. Muti, H. Rilling, S. Ozawa and T. Pinnock, and has participated in numerous CD recordings, including with J. E. Gardiner in Mozart's "Così fan tutte" and Lehár's The Merry Widow, Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's Paulus, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Fidelio, as well as recorded lied CDs such as Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, and the CD Schubert's Friends.
Other highlights include his engagement as Moses at the Welsh National Opera with a guest appearance at Covent Garden, Elias under D. Gatti in Paris, and his engagement as Tamino at the Semperoper.
In concert, Rainer Trost is one of the most sought-after soloists of his generation. Highlights of his activity as a concert singer were engagements with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, in the Musikhalle Hamburg, Tonhalle Zurich, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, in the Musikverein Vienna, Gasteig Munich, Prinzregententheater Munich and Gulbenkian Lisbon.
As a regular guest at the Theater an der Wien, he has appeared in many roles including Ulisse (Gluck Telemaco Rene Jacobs/Torsten Fischer); Pylades (Gluck Iphigenie en Tauride), Alfred (Die Fledermaus) and Oronte ( Handel Alcina with Concentus Musicus Wien conducted by Stefan Gottfried).
In recent years, he sang Jesus (Christus am Ölberge Beethoven) at the Theater an der Wien, as well as the Painter in Berg's Lulu conducted by Alain Altinoglu in Brussels in 2021. The highlight of 2022 was his interpretation of Gustav von Aschenbach (Britten Death in Venice) in a production by David McVicar and the Volksoper in Vienna. The artist has been performing the role of Ferrando in Così fan tutte in 2023 in Aix and in 2024 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
Rainer Trost also works as a vocal coach at the MDW in Vienna.
