Äneas Humm
baritone
baritone
brief information
Swiss baritone Äneas Humm, awarded the OPUS KLASSIK in 2022, made his debut at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven at the age of 18 and completed his vocal studies at the Juilliard School New York with Edith Wiens in 2019. Previously, studies took him to the Hochschule für Künste Bremen.
Following permanent engagements at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and the Theater St. Gallen, in which he appeared in key roles such as Ophémon in Joseph Bologne’s L’AMANT ANONYME, Doktor Falke in Johann Strauss’ DIE FLEDERMAUS, Papageno in Mozart’s DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE and Roucher in Giordano’s ANDREA CHÉNIER, Äneas Humm has been on a new path to musical freedom since the 2023/2024 season and is not bound to a permanent house ensemble.
Highlight-engagements in the 2024/2025 season include Äneas Humm’s return to the St. Gallen Theatre for his role debut as Pantalon in DIE LIEBE ZU DEN DREI ORANGEN and once again the role of Doktor Falke in DIE FLEDERMAUS, this time alongside Rolando Villazón.
Äneas Humm is also in great demand as a concert singer and is a regular guest with renowned European orchestras, including the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, the Nederlands Noordorkest and the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. In December 2023, he performed again with Bach’s CHRISTMAS ORATORIUM in John Neumeier’s choreography at the Hamburg State Opera.
Äneas Humm devotes himself intensively to lieder singing: recitals have taken him to the Weill Recital Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, the Heidelberger Frühling, the Bremen Music Festival, the Beethoven House in Bonn and the major Swiss festivals in Davos and Lucerne. A particular highlight was his recital at the Schumannfest in Düsseldorf in June 2024, where he performed works by Clara and Robert Schumann, Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Franz Liszt.
His album EMBRACE (Rondeau Productions) with works by Grieg, Liszt, Ullmann and Hensel, which he recorded with his long-time Lied accompanist Renate Rohlfing in the Sendesaal Bremen, was chosen by BR-Klassik as CD of the Year 2021 and nominated by the German Record Critics’ List. He also received the OPUS KLASSIK and was previously also awarded the Förderpreis of the Deutschlandfunk.
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