Anton Scharinger was born in Wartberg, Austria, in 1961. He studied at the conservatory in Vienna and with Margarita Heppe. During his studies, he appeared in concerts and made his debut at the Salzburg State Theatre as Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. He soon gained a foothold on international opera stages, where he often shone in Mozart operas.
Renowned opera houses such as La Scala in Milan, the Vienna State Opera, the Zurich Opera, as well as the operas of Amsterdam, Hamburg, Paris, Rome, Chicago, Venice, San Francisco and Buenos Aires are among the venues he has performed in, as well as the festivals in Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence and Glyndebourne. He has also sung in lesser-known works such as Manfred Gurlitt’s Wozzeck and Domenico Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto.
A further focus is the secular and sacred concert literature – in this area he has often worked with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and participated in numerous concerts, stage productions and audio or video recordings. Other conductors with whom he has performed include Christoph von Dohnanyi, Antal Dorati, Dennis Russell Davies, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Krzysztof Penderecki and Georges Pretre. Anton Scharinger also frequently appears on stage as a Lieder singer.
He holds a professorship at the Institute for Singing and Music Theatre at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.