Rainer Trost

Education
Zang in München

Debut
Ferrando/Cosi fan tutte (Paris Opera), led by John Elliott Gardiner

Career
Specialized in Mozart roles: Tamino/Die Zauberflöte, Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni, Ferrando/Cosi fan tutte, Belmonte/Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Idomeneo, La clemenza di Tito

Highlights
Falstaff(München, Vienna); Flamand/Capriccio (Richard Strauss) (Paris); Leukippos/Daphne (Strauss) (Amsterdam); Matteo/Arabella (Vienna); Jaquino/Fidelio (Valencia); Dionysus/Die Bassariden (Henze) (Munich); Orpheus/Orpheus (Telemann) (Paris), David/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Kavalier/Cardillac (Hindemith) (Dresden)

Recordings
Ferrando/Cosi fan tutte (Paris Opera), led by John Elliott Gardiner; Tito/La Clemenza di Tito led by Charles Mackerras; The Merry Widow led by Gardiner; Paulus (Mendelssohn); Missa Solemnis (Beethoven); Fidelio led by Sir Simon Rattle; Die schöne Müllerin (Schubert)

Worked with
Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Carlo Maria Giulini, Frans Bruggen, Ton Koopman, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Osawa, Trevor Pinnock

Recent and future productions
Tamino/Die Zauberflöte (Vlaamse Opera)