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Arcangelo are delighted to be appearing in concert with Linard Vrielink in 2025/26.
Dutch tenor Linard Vrielink, praised for his “enchanting vocal elegance” (Das Opernglas) and his “velvety tenor” (Onlinemerker), studied at Universität der Künste (UdK) in Berlin with Prof. Elisabeth Werres. While still at the UdK, he made his debut at Staatsoper Berlin as Scaramuccio/Ariadne auf Naxos and was subsequently invited to join the opera studio.
The past few seasons saw house and role debuts such as Tamino/Die Zauberflöte at Bergen National Opera, Le Berger/Oedipus Rex at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam followed by Jaquino/Fidelio, and Ferrando/Cosi fan tutte with the Orchestra of the 18th Century and Manoj Kamps. At Staatsoper Berlin he gave his role debut as Leukippos in a new production by Romeo Castellucci of Strauss’ Daphne. In concert he debuted with the Berliner Philharmoniker in Mozart’s Krönungsmesse, conducted by Kirill Petrenko, in Berlin, Barcelona and Madrid, with the London Symphony Orchestra in Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri at the BBC PROMS and he sang Arbace with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, both conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.
Previous opera engagements include Arbace (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence), Fenton/Die Lustige Weiber von Windsor (Staatsoper Berlin), Asle/Sleepless in the world premiere of Peter Eötvös’ new opera (Staatsoper Berlin, Theatre de Geneve, Müpa Budapest), Jaquino/Fidelio (Opéra Comique Paris), Almaviva/Il barbiere di Siviglia (Bregenzer Festspiele), Don Basilio/Le nozze di Figaro (Staatsoper Hamburg), and Hirt, Seemann/Tristan und Isolde (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence). As part of the opera studio of Staatsoper Berlin he performed roles such as Steuermann/Der fliegende Holländer, Belfiore/La Finta Giardinera, Remendado/Carmen, Seemann in a new production of Tristan und Isolde and Junker Spärlich/Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, both conducted by Daniel Barenboim, and Don Basilio/Le nozze di Figaro under the baton of Marc Minkowski.
In concert, he has performed with the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensembles throughout Europe in several programmes: Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël, Schubert’s Stabat Mater and Beethoven’s C-Dur Messe with Thomas Hengelbrock and Bach’s Messe in h-moll with Ivor Bolton. With the Nederlands Radio Filharmonisch Orkest he has performed Janek/Vec Makropulos, Federico/L’Amico Fritz, works by Haydn and Honegger, the role of Désiré in Giordano’s Fedora and Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël, conducted by Ed Spanjaard. Other concert engagements include Schubert’s Mass in a flat with Choeur Accentus at Opéra de Rouen, Beethoven’s Symphony no 9 with the orchestra of Theater Kassel and Noord Nederlands Orkest for Dutch Television, the European premiere of Mohammed Fairouz’ oratorio Zabur with the Bochumer Symphoniker, Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Kasseler Musiktage and Orff’s Carmina Burana at Konzerthaus Berlin.
Linard Vrielink has recorded works by Mozart with Ensemble Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon for Harmonia Mundi, as well as an album with his own compositions, titled Moments of Vison, released by Decurio.