Thomas Blondelle

Thomas Blondelle (born October 3, 1982 in Bruges ) is a Belgian opera and operetta singer with a tenor voice who sings mainly on German stages.

life and work

Thomas Blondelle studied singing, piano and chamber music at the Stedelijk Conservatorium in his hometown. He also studied musicology at the KU Leuven. He is the winner of the Viñas Singing Competition in Barcelona, the Queen Elisabeth Competition and the International Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna. At the 2011 Brussels singing competition Concours Musical Reine Elisabeth , he took second place.

During his studies he made his debut in the role of Hans Scholl in a production of the White Rose by Udo Zimmermann at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. His first engagements took him to Luxembourg, Antwerp, Toulon and for three years as an ensemble member at the Staatstheater Braunschweig , where he was able to develop a broad repertoire of operas and operettas. Blondelle has been a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ensemble since 2009, but makes regular guest appearances at home and abroad. In addition to the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden and the State Operas of Dresden , Munich and Stuttgart , he has also received invitations from the Amsterdam Opera , the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, the Volksoper Vienna and the Cincinnati Opera .

He also regularly sings the great tenor roles in classical operettas. At the Lehár Festival Bad Ischl in 2018 he took over Prince Sou-Chong in the Land of Smiles , Eisenstein in Berlin and Count Tassilo in Wiesbaden. He is one of the few contemporary tenors whose spectrum ranges from Kálmán, Lehár and Strauss to the hero tenor roles in Wagner and Strauss. 2019 and 2020 are years of numerous role debuts, especially in Wiesbaden, where he has become the darling of the audience since the beginning of Uwe Eric Laufenberg's directorship . In Wiesbaden he sang Belmonte, Lenski, the Counts of Luxemburg, Stolzing, Herodes, Idomeneo, Titus and Candide, among others.

Thomas Blondelle is also a sought-after concert singer . He was invited to the BBC Proms in London and the Lucerne Festival . He made music with the Concertgebouw Orkest , the New York Philharmonic and the Orchester de Paris , the Vlaams Symfonieorkest , the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra, with the ensembles from Brussels, Monte Carlo and Stuttgart, with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin , the RIAS Chamber Choir and the WDR Radio Orchestra . He also gave recitals . In May 2018 he took over the role of narrator in Massenet's oratorio Ève in the Reinoldikirche in Dortmund .