Rainer Trost was born in Stuttgart and studied voice in Munich with Adalbert Kraus. He has appeared at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the state operas in Munich, Hamburg, Dresden and Vienna, the Opéra Bastille, the Metropolitan Opera, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Cologne Opera and the Theater an der Wien, as well the Bayreuth, Salzburg, Bregenz and Munich Opera Festivals.

He has performed in the concert halls of Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Zurich and Lisbon, and at the Musikverein in Vienna. Trost has sung under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Riccardo Muti, Helmuth Rilling, Seiji Ozawa, and Trevor Pinnock.

Trost has appeared on numerous albums, including Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Lehár’s The Merry Widow, Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, Mendelssohn’s Saint Paul, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and Fidelio, as well as on recordings such as Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin and Schubert’s Friends.