Biography
Born in Regensburg, Christian Hübner first studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich before studying singing with Hans Sotin and Robert Schunk at the Musikhochschule Köln and Aachen. He earned a scholarship at the Richard-Wagner-Foundation Cologne. In addition to his vocal studies, he also studied business administration and graduated with diploma. After graduating with his opera diploma in 2007, he was a member of the ensemble at Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and then at Theater Bremen, where he could develop a wide range of main-opera-roles. Since then he has appeared as a guest at numerous international opera houses such as the Tokyo New National Theater, the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, the Teatro Massimo Palermo, the Teatro di San Carlo in Napoli, Opéra de Rennes, Opéra de Dijon, Oper Leipzig, the Vienna Volksoper and others. His repertoire includes Baron Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier), Hagen (Götterdämmerung), Fafner (Das Rheingold and Siegfried), Hunding (Die Walküre), Gurnemanz (Parsifal), Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Timur (Turandot), Rocco (Fidelio) and others. In April 2019, he will create Hans Schwarz (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) under the baton of Christian Thielemann at the Osterfestspiele Salzburg.