Franz Hawlata
Franz Hawlata, born in Eichstätt, Bavaria, is a great
comic singer actor who loves experimental stagings. His signature role
is Baron Ochs in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier. 
The Bayreuth Festival
debut came in 2007 as Hans Sachs in Katharina Wagner's new production of
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
In Eichstätt Hawlata studied musicology before entering the Musikhochschule München, where Ernst Haefliger, Hans Hotter and Erik Werba were his teachers.
Since 1994 Franz Hawlata is regularly appearing at the Vienna State Opera: in more than 200 performances he sang Baron Ochs, Orest, Morosus, Rocco, Caspar, Leporello, Papageno, Osmin, Figaro, Sarastro, Wozzeck, Daland and Pogner.
Hawlata sings at the major opera houses in the world: Metropolitan Opera, La Bastille in Paris, Royal Opera House in London, San Francisco, Chicago, München, Berlin, Brussels, Barcelona, San Diego – and, of course, at the Bayreuth Festival.
Franz Hawlata as The Water Spirit in Rusalka (Robert Carsen's Paris production).
Franz Hawlata's Wagner roles
- Veit Pogner
- Daland
- Wotan (debut in 2001)
- Hans Sachs (Bayreuth Festival debut in 2007)
- Gurnemanz in Basel (2010)
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