Actor Franz Tscherne, born in Graz, Austria, has been on stage of major and renowned theaters in Switzerland, Germany and Austria such as Zurich, Basel, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich and Vienna since the age of 19. He has performed the important parts of his genre from Shakespeare, Goethe, Moliere and Goldoni to Horvath and Schnitzler under directors such as August Everding, Hans Hollmann, Hellmuth Matiasek, Rudolf Noelte, Robert Lepage und Leander Haussmann. Apart from his stage performances, Franz Tscherne has worked in numerous film and TV productions, and since recently he has devoted himself also increasingly to musical theater, inter alia, the part of Perchik in the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" directed by GMD Stefan Soltesz at the Aalto Theater in Essen. With the Munich Philharmonic he was the narrator in the concert performance of Lortzing’s opera "Tsar and Carpenter" conducted by Leopold Hager and under maestro Marcello Viotti he recited Dante in Wolf Ferrari’s "La vita nuova". For the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation he was the speaker in Honegger’s "The Dance of the Dead" under the musical direction of Ulf Schirmer. Under the same conductor he was assigned the role of Rilke’s "Cornet" as set to music by Viktor Ullmann at Munich’s Prince Regent Theater in December 2007. Franz Tscherne gave his debut on the opera stage in 2003 in Venice in a new production of "Ariadne on Naxos" at the Teatro la Fenice. Under the musical direction of maestro Viotti he played with great success the Major domo at Teatro Malibran. His most recent parts included the role of Orpheus in the melodrama "Orfey i Evridike" by J.I. Fomin directed by Klaus Peter Kehr at the Wuppertal Opera and the role of Niklas in Heinrich Marschner’s opera "Hans Heilig" at the Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg.
