The 2025/2026 season saw Elmar Hauser make his debuts with the Accademia Bizantina under Ottavio Dantone, the Wiener Symphoniker under Petr Popelka, and the Kammerakademie Potsdam under Johanna Soller. He was subsequently nominated for the fourth time in a row as «Young Artist of the Year» in the critics’ poll conducted by the magazine «Opernwelt». For the winner of the 2024 CLIP Competition, the current season begins with the world premiere of «Caligari» at the Landestheater Coburg and sees him return to Oper Frankfurt as Ruggiero in the revival of «Alcina». In concert, he can be heard as Angel 1 / The Boy in George Benjamin’s «Written on Skin» with the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie under the baton of the composer, as well as in «Hommage an Klaus Huber» with the Musikkollegium Winterthur and Roberto Gonzáles-Monjas.