Heiko Börner was already heard in the current 2023/2024 season as Tannhäuser at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari/Italy, which he also sang in the spring of 2024 in a revival at the Mecklenburg State Theatre in Schwerin. After a jump in as Erik in the Flying Dutchman at the Erfurt Theatre in autumn 2023, he gave his role debut as Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss in February 2024 at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste/Italy, followed by the revival of Lohengrin at the Estonian National Theatre in Tallinn. 

In the 2024/25 season, Heiko will sing a new production of Tannhäuser at the National Opera of South Korea in Seoul and again the revival of Lohengrin in Tallinn. 

In the 2022/23 season, Heiko Börner was Tannhäuser at the Mecklenburg State Theatre in Schwerin and was once again engaged at the Landestheatre in Linz, this time with the role of Stolzing in Wagner’s Meistersinger in spring 2023. He made his debut in Linz as Parsifal in spring 2022 and has already sang Wagner’s Tristan here in recent years and the Emperor in Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss. 

Heiko has already sung the role of Tristan at the Hanover State Opera, the Cologne Opera, the Bern City Theatre, the Halle Opera and the Saarland State Theatre in Saarbrücken. Heiko made his debut as Florestan in Fidelio in the 2019/20 season at the Staatsthea-theatre in Darmstadt, a role that subsequently took him to Chemnitz. 

Heiko Börner began his singing career after studying economics and private singing studies at the Nordharzer Städtetheatre in Halberstadt as a lyric tenor and was then engaged from 2004 to 2008 at the Mainfrankentheater in Würzburg. Here he sang in the Italian, French and German repertoire. Since embarking on his freelance career in 2008, he has increasingly focussed on roles in the dramatic tenor repertoire. His current repertoire includes the title roles in Wagners Tristan, Tannhäuser, Parsifal and Lohengrin, Walther von Stolzing from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer, Beethovens Florestan in Fidelio, Webers Max in Freischütz, Puccinis Cavaradossi in Tosca, Janácek’s Laca in Jenufa and the title role in Verdis Otello.