The Austrian baritone Thomas Zisterer studied at the Music-Academies of Tirol and Vienna  and was winner of the Brigitte Fassbaender-Award. 

His first engagements included  apperancaes at the Donaufestival, Römersteinbruch St. Margarethen, the Opera Graz, Stadttheater Meran and at the Vienna State Opera in the children´s opera The 35th May.    

From 2000 until 2004 he was member of the ensemble of the Tiroler Landestheater, where he sang among others Gustl Das Land des Lächelns, Bill Cahoun Kiss me Kate, Demetrius A Midsummer Night´s Dream, Belcore L´Elisir d´amore as well as Count Boni Csárdásfürstin. Later he returned as guest in roles like Magaldi Evita, in Under Milk Wood, Kilian Der Freischütz, Dr. Falke Die Fledermaus, Harlekin Ariadne auf Naxos and Zsupan Gräfin Mariza. 

He could be heard at the Lehár Festival in Bad Ischl in the roles of Count Montschi in Walzertraum, Vicomte Cascada in Die lustige Witwe, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, Prunelles in Eva (also recorded for CD), Ivan in Der Zarewitsch and Gustl in Das Land des Lächelns. 

In concerts he could be heard in Vaughan Williams´ Dona Nobis Pacem at the Musikverein, Mahler´s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra at the Konzerthaus in Vienna and with irish, scottish and welsh folk-songs in arrangements by Joseph Haydn und Ludwig von Beethoven with the Villaume Piano Trio in Munich. At the Landestheater Tirol he sang in a concert with tangos by Carlos Gardel and he gave a recital with pieces by Korngold, Schubert and Mozart at the American Colony Concert Series in Jerusalem.

Recent engagements include the role of Papageno in Die Zauberflöte under Gerard Korsten at the Landestheater Bregenz. He is a regular guest at the Volksoper Vienna where his roles include Cascada Die Lustige Witwe, Morales and Dancairo Carmen, Urbain Pariser Leben, Envy Antonia und der Reissteufel) and Dr. Hoggings in the children´s opera Erwin das Naturtalent.

He also performed the baritone parts of a new production of the Wiener Taschenoper of the Intermezzi Serpilla e Bacocco by Giuseppe M. Orlandini and Filetta e Spago by Benedetto Marcello at Schönbrunn Castle as well as Falke in Die Fledermaus at the Tschaikovsky Hall in Moscow.

In the season 2017/18 he can be seen as Toni Haberl in Eine Saison in Salzburg at the Lehár Festival Bad Ischl as well as in the roles Ottokar and Killian in Der Freischütz and as Cascada in Die Lustige Witwe at the Bühne Baden.

Solo Recital - American Colony Concert Series - January 2016

Much at home in this genre, Zisterer, freely expressive on stage and light of foot, entertained the audience with his jaunty and rakish performance. His true, fresh lyric baritone voice, stable in all registers and unforced, sounded especially well in the intimate Pasha Room of the American Colony Hotel.
Pamela Hickman, Concert Critique

Intermezzi - Taschenoper - Oktober 2012

Toll Luciana Mancini und Thomas Zisterer, welche die vier Protagonisten darstellerisch versiert und (...) gesanglich freudebringend zum Leben erweckten.
Stefan Ender, Der Standard, 17. Oktober 2012 

OPER

Banlaky – Under Milkwood – Willy Nilly, Zweiter Ertrunkener, Mr. Pugh

Bizet – Carmen - Morales, Dancairo

Britten – A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Demetrius

Dinescu – Der 35.Mai – Onkel Ringelhut

Donizetti – L’elisir d’amore - Belcore

Grétry – Die beiden Geizigen - Martin

Hiller – Peter Pan – Bill Jux

Marcello - Filetta e Spago - Spago

Menotti – Das Medium – Mr. Gobinet

Mozart – Die Zauberflöte – Papageno
Mozart – Cosi fan tutte – Guglielmo

Offenbach – Hoffmanns Erzählungen – Spalanzani, Schlemil

Orff – Die Kluge – Mauleselmann, Zweiter Strolch

Orlandini - Serpilla e Bacocco - 

Puccini – Gianni Schicchi – Arzt, Notar
Puccini – Turandot - Ping

Rossini – Der Barbier von Sevilla – Figaro

R.Strauss – Ariadne auf Naxos – Harlekin

Wagner – Tristan und Isolde – Melot
Wagner – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Nachtigall

von Weber – Der Freischütz - Killian

OPERETTE/MUSICAL

Bedenik – Moses - Joshua

Benatzky – Herzen im Schnee – Seppl Huber

Dostal - Die ungarische Hochzeit - Arpád Erdödy

Herman - Hello, Dolly – Cornelius Hackl

Kálmán – Gräfin Mariza – Koloman Zsupán
Kálmán – Die Csárdásfürstin – Boni

Kern – Show Boat – Frank

Lehár – Das Land des Lächelns – Gustl
Lehár - Der Graf von Luxemburg - Armand Brissard
Lehár – Die lustige Witwe – Cascada
Lehár – Eva – Prunelles
Lehár – Der Zarewitsch – Iwan

Leigh – Der Mann von La Mancha – Dr. Carrasco

Offenbach - Pariser Leben - Urbain

Porter – Kiss me, Kate – Hortensio, Lucentio

Schmidt – The Fantasticks - Matt

Strauß – Die Fledermaus – Dr. Falke
Strauß – Der Zigeunerbaron – Homonay
Strauß – Die lustige Nibelungen – König Gunther

Webber – Joseph – Joseph
Webber – Evita - Magaldi

LIEDER

Cornelius - Weihnachtslieder

Haydn/Beethoven - Irische, Schottische und Walisische Volkslieder

Mahler - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

Williams - Dona Nobis Pacem

Gardel - Diverse Tangos