The tenor, originally from Hall in Tyrol, received his training from Professor Karlheinz Hanser at the Tyrolean Regional Conservatoire and from KS Brigitte Fassbaender in Innsbruck. He gained his first stage experience at the age of ten, performing as the First Boy in Mozart’s The Magic Flute under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Under the guidance of KS Brigitte Fassbaender, Martin Mitterrutzner began his career as a member of the ensemble at the Tiroler Landestheater, before joining the ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera, where he was able to build a broad repertoire (Andres/Wozzeck, Giannetto/La gazza ladra, Iopas/Les Troyens, Fenton/Falstaff, as well as major Mozart roles such as Belmonte, Tamino, Don Ottavio, and Ferrando). Since then, he has returned regularly as a guest to his former home company, performing roles such as Camille de Rosillon in Claus Guth’s new production of The Merry Widow and Grimoaldo in Handel’s Rodelinda, also directed by Claus Guth. In 2023, he made his role debut at the Frankfurt Opera as Flamand in Richard Strauss’s Capriccio.

He has appeared at the Theater an der Wien (Narraboth/Salome, Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni, Uriel/The Creation), the Aix-en-Provence Festival (Requiem), Zurich Opera (Tamino), Salzburg Festival (Brighella/Ariadne auf Naxos and Ferrando/Così fan tutte), Bayerische Staatsoper (Pane/La Calisto, Arbace/Idomeneo, and Iopas/Les Troyens), and regularly at the Semperoper Dresden, where he performs Mozartian roles such as Ferrando, Tamino, and Belmonte.

During the 2023/24 season, Martin Mitterrutzner is once again performing at the Semperoper Dresden and the Vienna Volksoper, both in the role of Tamino. Other highlights include his appearance in a concert version of Salome to mark the reopening of the concert hall in Valencia, and new productions of Die Frau ohne Schatten under Christian Thielemann, and Katja Kabanova at the Semperoper Dresden, where he explores the Czech repertoire for the first time in the role of Váňa Kudrjaš.

In addition to opera, Martin Mitterrutzner possesses a wide-ranging concert repertoire as a soloist, spanning from Liederto major symphonic works. For many years, he has been invited to perform with some of the most prestigious ensembles in Europe and America, including the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Concentus Musicus, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

He works regularly with conductors such as Franz Welser-Möst, Daniel Harding, Kent Nagano, Manfred Honeck, Ivor Bolton, Christoph Poppen, and Sebastian Weigle.