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Johannes Wieners, countertenor, studied double bass, voice, and contemporary music in Rostock and Graz. In March 2023, he portrayed the role of Youth in the world premiere of Oscar Strasnoy's "Robinson" at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin. Strasnoy's "Geschichte" was performed with him in the lead role of Witold in April 2023 at the Opera Graz, followed by an engagement at the Staatstheater Braunschweig as Di in "To Fall Safely" by Diana Syrse. As Circe, he was part of the collage "Penelope", based on an opera by Reinhard Keiser, with the Ensemble Wunderkammer at the Telemann Festtage Magdeburg 2024. In June 2025, he will make his debut at Semper Zwei in Dresden as Child in Leonard Evers' "humanoid" and will be heard with the lautten compagney Berlin at the Neuköllner Oper in winter 2024/25.
He has long been dedicated to contemporary music and is a founding member of the young ensemble for experimental music theater, Workers Union. From 2021 to 2022, he was the first scholarship holder of the Maria Husmann Stiftung e.V., which specializes in supporting young singers in the field of contemporary music. Masterclasses in contemporary music and singing have taken him to Sarah Maria Sun, Neil Semer, Daniel Gloger, Sarah Wegener, among others.
In August 2021, he sang Salvatore Sciarrino's "Studi per l'intonazione del mare" as part of Ostrava Days 2021, and in June 2022, he performed Bernhard Lang's "Songbook II.2 - Retextured" with the Klangforum Wien.
Johannes Wieners' strong interest in early music led him to participate in masterclasses and concerts in Berlin, Bremen, Parma, and Venice. He has collaborated with artists like Gemma Bertagnolli, Björn Colell, Sam Chapman, and Joachim Held. Since 2016, he has been a founding member of the ensemble for early music, Due sopra il Basso.
Besides his singing career, Johannes Wieners is also a composer. In 2019, he won the first federal prize for youth composition for his setting of a scene from Frank Wedekind's "Spring Awakening." In March 2022, another scene from this piece was premiered at the resonanzraum in Hamburg, followed by performances at the Oper Graz.
