Tareq Nazmi is a German bass, born in 1983 in Kuwait and raised in Munich. He studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Edith Wiens and Christian Gerhaher and took private lessons with Hartmut Elbert. He began his career in the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera and remained a member of its ensemble until 2016, singing roles such as the Speaker in Die Zauberflöte, Publio in La clemenza di Tito and Colline in La bohème. His international breakthrough came in 2021 as the Speaker in Die Zauberflöte, followed by Sarastro at the Salzburg Festival in 2022, King Heinrich in Lohengrin for his Vienna State Opera debut, Alvise in La Gioconda at the 2024 Salzburg Easter Festival, and Gurnemanz in Parsifal at the Bavarian State Opera and the Tokyo Spring Festival in 2025. He has also appeared at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In concert he has worked with conductors including Antonio Pappano, Franz Welser-Möst, Marek Janowski, Joana Mallwitz and Manfred Honeck, and with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Source: Rondo DB

Usual Name Tareq Nazmi
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte

2019-08-02

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