Alexander Kaimbacher was born in Villach and now lives with his family in Vienna. He studied voice, acting, Waldorf education, and theatre, film, and media studies. Since 1998, Alexander Kaimbacher has worked as a freelance opera and concert singer and was a member of the ensembles of the Vienna State Opera and the Bavarian State Opera. He is Professor of Voice at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz and teaches singing at the Opera School of the Vienna State Opera.
His particular strength lies in the intense interpretation of text and music in character roles such as Loge, Candide, Eisenstein, Celebrant, and Aschenbach. In 2019, he made his role debut at the Zurich Opera House as Piet vom Fass, the Holy Drinker, in György Ligeti’s "Le Grand Macabre". In 2021 he appeared as the Painter in Berg’s "Lulu" at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, in "Eiger" by Fabian Müller in Biel/Solothurn, in "Toteis" by Manuela Kerer in Bolzano, and in "Egmont" by Christian Jost in Bielefeld. There he also made his role debut as Parsifal in 2023, staged in the new format of a “cinema opera”.
Most recently, he sang at the Bregenz Festival in a co-production with Neue Oper Wien in the world premiere of "Die Judith von Shimoda" by Fabian Panisello, at the Komische Oper Berlin in Offenbach’s "Die Banditen", as well as in the philharmonic halls of Hamburg, Cologne, and Paris in "Die Soldaten" by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, in a semi-staged concert performance by Calixto Bieito under the musical direction of François-Xavier Roth.
In 2023, he also took on the role of Job at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt in the new opera of the same name by Bernhard Lang and Michael Sturminger, based on the novel by Joseph Roth, which was awarded the Austrian Theatre Prize in September 2024. The year 2025 was dedicated to Johann Strauss, including "Die Fledermaus" at the Theater an der Wien directed by Stefan Herheim, as well as "Indigo" and "Die 23 Räuber*innen" in all 23 districts of Vienna as part of the Johann Strauss Festival Vienna 2025.
Most recently, he performed in Biel/Solothurn in "Im weißen Rössl" by Ralph Benatzky and in spring at the Salzburg State Theatre in the Austrian premiere of Alfred Döblin’s "Berlin Alexanderplatz" in the setting by Vivan & Ketan Bhatti.
Since January 2026, he has been co-director, together with Anna Sushon, of Neue Oper Wien, an opera company specializing in contemporary music theatre.
