The Austrian baritone, George Nigl, as the former soprano soloist of the Wiener Sängerknaben, has been familiar with music, and especially the Viennese Classic, from his boyhood. When his voice changed it was evident that he would develop into a baritone; he became a student of Hilde Zadek. Quite early on his career Nigl started to expand the range of music in his repertoire, and today he is internationally renowned both as a specialist for Old Music and as a highly proficient interpreter of New Music; nevertheless he also regularly performs works of the late 18th and the 19th century as well as Classic Modernism. His extraordinary talent as an actor already became apparent during his schooldays and led to early performances at the Vienna Burgtheater.