A graduate of the Music Academy in Tallinn, Estonian Bass Ain Anger previously studied physics and Mathematics. After first experiences on stage at the Estonian National Opera and in Riga, he moved to Germany in 2001 where he sang in the ensemble of the Leipzig Opera until 2004. In 2002 he made his successful US debut with the title part of Rodion Schedrin’s The Enchanted Wanderer together with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 2004, he has been a company member of the Vienna State Opera.

Guest engagements have taken him to the opera houses of Paris (Bastille), Berlin (Deutsche Oper), Montpellier and others, to the Helsinki Festival, the Savonlinna Opera Festival, Bergen Festival and the Lucerne Festival. House debuts in 2009 are planned with the Munich Opera (Orest) and teh Bayreuth FEstival (Fafner). He performed with the Symphony orchestras of Cleveland, Saint Louis, Stockholm and Tokyo, under such conductors as Lorin Maazel, Christian Thielemann, Seiji Ozawa, Zubin Mehta, Ricardo Mutti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Franz Welser-Möst, to name but a few.

In the Vienna State Opera’s 2008/2009 season, Ain Anger will be performing such parts as Fafner (Siegfried), Hunding (Die Walküre), König Heinrich (Lohengrin), Zaccharia (Nabucco), Padre Guardiano (La forza del destino), Gremin (Eugen Onegin). Further main roles include Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Pogner (Meistersinger), Pimen (Boris Godunov), Balthasar (La Favorite), Filippo (Don Carlos, frz/it.), Banquo (Macbeth), Ramfis (Aida), Landgraf (Tannhäuser), Orest (Elektra) and Sparafucile (Rigoletto), among many others.