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The Austrian bass Groissböck studied under bass-baritone José van Dam. His career has taken him to numerous opera houses, including those of New York, Milan, Munich, Vienna, Paris and Berlin, and to the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals. In addition to Heinrich, he frequently sings other Wagner roles such as Hunding (Die Walküre), Hermann (Tannhäuser), Veit Pogner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Gurnemanz (Parsifal), Heinrich (Lohengrin) and Daland (Der fliegende Holländer).

(photo: Gerhard Ringhofer)