bio

Countertenor Johannes Wieners has long been deeply engaged with contemporary music. He studied double bass, voice, and Contemporary Music in Rostock and Graz, beginning his stage career already during his studies. At the age of 25, he made his debut at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, singing Die Jugend in the world premiere of Oscar Strasnoy’s Robinson. This was followed by his performance as Witold in Strasnoy’s Geschichte at Oper Graz and as Di in Diana Syrse’s To Fall Safely at Staatstheater Braunschweig. Further engagements led him to the Telemann-Festtage Magdeburg, the Neuköllner Oper, Semperoper Dresden, and Theater an der Wien, including collaborations with the Berlin-based lautten compagney. In these productions, he worked with distinguished conductors, directors, and composers such as Chloé Dufresne, Bruno Ferrandis, Wolfgang Katschner, Bas Wiegers, Anna Bergmann, Lars Marcel Braun, Bernhard Lang, and Oscar Strasnoy.

Johannes Wieners is also a founding member of the Early Music ensemble Due sopra il Basso, as well as of the experimental music theater collective Äh-Musik, which explores the contextualization of stylistic differences and hierarchies in music. Alongside his performing career, he is active as a composer: in 2019, he won a first federal prize at the Jugend komponiert competition, his works have been performed at Oper Graz and at resonanzraum Hamburg.

In 2026, he will appear in a variety of projects at Theater Winterthur, Heidelberger Frühling, the Munich Biennale, the Handel Festival in Halle, the Styriarte Graz, and Neue Oper Wien, where he will once again take on the leading role of Witold in Strasnoy’s Geschichte.