The Austrian bass-baritone, Anton Scharinger, studied under Margarita Heppe in Vienna. He completed his studies in 1984 at the Conservatory in Vienna. Even during his studies he had begun to make a name for himself as a concert singer. In 1981, when he was a 20-year-old student at the Conservatory, he received an invitation to work with the Landestheater in Salzburg, where he made his operatic debut as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte.