Biography

Internationally renowned, Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester has established himself as one of the most distinguished Bass-Baritones of his generation.Following  his Bayreuth debut in 2001 as Konrad Nachtigall/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, he has been regularly invited to the Wagner Festival and has also sung Fritz Kothner in Die Meistersinger and Amfortas in Parsifal in the much-discussed Schlingensief/Boulez production. In 2006, he made his Bayreuth debut as Gunter in Götterdämmerung. He sang the role again in 2013 and 2014.

In addition to his Wagnerian engagements, which have taken him to the opera houses of Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, Cologne, and the Ruhrtriennale, among others, he devotes himself to the Italian and French repertoire. At the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, he has repeatedly performed Germont in La traviata, appeared as the Barbier in Il barbiere di Siviglia and the Count di Luna in Il trovatore, and enjoyed success as Nabucco and Posa/Don Carlo. The villains in Les contes d'Hoffmann are also part of his repertoire. He made his North American debut in 2007 as Miller/Luisa Miller and as Germont/La traviata in Toronto.

Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester has worked with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Valery Gergiev, Kirill Petrenko, Semion Bychkov, Paolo Carignani, Eliahu Inbal, Fabio Luisi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Stefan Soltesz, and Pierre Boulez.
Highlights of past seasons include Peter/Hansel and Gretel at the Frankfurt Opera, Escamillo/Carmen at the Komische Oper Berlin, King Overall in Ullmann's The Emperor of Atlantis at the Teatro Real Madrid, Kaspar/Der Freischütz, Wladislaw in the new production of Smetana's Dalibor, Klingsor/Parsifal at the Opéra de Lyon, Orest/Elektra at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, as Germont/La traviata in Wiesbaden as well as the title role of Rigoletto at the Komische Oper Berlin, the title role in David T. Little's JFK and a staged version of “The Creation” at the Augsburg State Theatre, La Forza del Destino in Tampere, Kurwenal at the Opéra de Lyon and at the Ruhrttriennale, a Japan tour with the Semperoper Dresden as Donner/Das Rheingold. Additionally Peter/Hansel and Gretel at the Frankfurt Opera, Gunter/Götterdämmerung at the Opera Stuttgart, in Amsterdam under Hartmut Haenchen, and at the Seoul Arts Center, Amfortas/Parsifal at the Goetheanum and Don Giovanni in Bregenz.
Further engagements have taken him to Barcelona, ​​Genoa, Riga, Essen, Dortmund, Mannheim, and Saarbrücken, among others. He has performed at the Opéra national de Paris, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Tokyo, Cologne, the Bayreuth Festival under Kirill Petrenko, and the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.

In addition to his extensive operatic career, Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester also cultivates a strong concert repertoire. He has frequently performed Bach's Passions, Alexander Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Mahler's Eighth Symphony, and also  Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem in Bonn, Haydn's The Creation with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Pisa, and Christ on the Mount of Olives with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. He was invited to the Bergen Festival and the Lucerne International Festival and toured in autumn 2006 in the main role of the oratorio Elias with the German Symphony Orchestra and the Windsbacher Boys' Choir.

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Mendelssohn-Barholdy: Elias, op. 70
Es ist genug
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