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Biography

Johan Reuter studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the Academy of the Royal Theatre in his hometown of Copenhagen and attended master classes with Ernst Haefliger, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson and Richard Trimborn. Since 1996, he has been a soloist at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, where he sings a wide repertoire.

Highlights of recent seasons include Dead Man Walking, Un ballo in maschera, Cavalleria rusticana/I pagliacci, Scarpia/Tosca in Copenhagen, Barak/Die Frau ohne Schatten in London, New York, Berlin, Zurich, Amsterdam and at the San Francisco Opera to celebrate its centenary, which marked his first appearance on the American West Coast. He also sang the title role in Nabucco and Hans Sachs in a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Braunfels' Jeanne d'Arc at the Salzburg Festival, Vec Makropulos at the Met and the Salzburg Festival, Wotan/Das Rheingold in Munich and Budapest, the role of Theseus in the world premiere of Harrison Birthwistles' The Minotaur at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where he also appeared in Elektra, Salome, The Tsar's Bride and Wozzeck – an opera in which he collaborated with director William Kentridge at the Opéra National de Paris.
In addition, Der fliegende Holländer in Madrid, Berlin, Copenhagen and at the International May Festival, also, Le nozze di Figaro at the Theater an der Wien and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Macbeth in Lisbon, From the House of the Dead in Paris, Madrid and the Ruhrtriennale, Così fan tutte in Hamburg, Orest/Elektra at the Royal Theatre Copenhagen, Friedrich von Telramund/Lohengrin at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and Oedipe at the Bregenz Festival.

His most recent concert appearances include Haydn's The Creation and The Seasons, Mahler's Symphony No. 8, Rückert-Lieder and Das klagende Lied, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Ein deutsches Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette, Peer Gynt and Michelangelo's Sonnets by Shostakovich.
In addition, he has given concert performances as Jochanaan/Salome at the Edinburgh International Festival, Kurwenal in concert performances of Tristan und Isolde in Auckland, the Jedermann monologues in Lausanne, Geneva and at the Finnish National Opera, together with Brahms' Vier ernste Gesänge, which he also performed with the Sonderjyllands Symfoniorkester.
He has given recitals in Copenhagen, Hanover, Frankfurt, Bergen and Madrid.

In the 2025/26 season, Johan Reuter will take on the role of Baron Scarpia/Tosca at the Royal Danish Opera, Jaroslav Prus in Janáček's The Makropulos Case at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Jostein in the world premiere of Fagerlund's Morgonstjärnan at the Finnish National Opera under the baton of Hannu Lintu, before appearing at the Hamburger Staatsoper as Simone/Florentine Tragedy and Bluebeard/Duke Bluebeard's Castle.

Johan Reuter has recorded Tristan und Isolde under Janowski, Kunzen's Holger Danske, Nielsen's Maskarade under Ulf Schirmer (Gramophone Award), Schubert's Winterreise in Danish, as well as solo albums with arias by the young Giuseppe Verdi and songs by Richard Strauss, Carl Nielsen and Hakon Børresen.

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Artist Website

www.johanreuter.com

Management

General Management

Artist Manager

Boris Orlob
Managing Director
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Repertoire

Repertoire Opera

Adams	Nixon in China	Nixon
Berg	Lulu	Dr. Schön
	Wozzeck	Wozzeck
Enescu	Oedipe	Oedipe
Henze	Elegie für junge Liebende	Mittenhofer
Janáček	The Makropulos Case	Prus
	From the house of the dead	Shishkov
Leoncavallo	Pagliacci	Tonio
Mozart	Così fan tutte	Don Alfonso
Mussorgski	Boris Godunow	Boris Godunow
Puccini	Gianni Schicchi	Gianni Schicchi
	Il tabarro	Michele
	La fanciulla del West	Jack Rance
	Tosca	Scarpia
Rimsi-Korsakow	The Tsar's Bride	Gryaznoy
Strauss	Arabella	Mandryka
	Die Frau ohne Schatten	Barak
	Elektra	Orest
	Salome	Jochanaan
Stravinsky	The Rake's Progress	Nick Shadow
Tchaikovsky	The Queen of Spades	Tomsky
Verdi	I Vespri siciliani	Alfino
	Macbeth	Macbeth
	Simon Boccanegra	Boccanegra
	Un ballo in maschera	Anckarström
Wagner	Der fliegende Holländer	Holländer
	Lohengrin	Teralmund
	Meistersinger von Nürnberg	Hans Sachs
	Parsifal	Amfortas
		Klingsor
	Das Rheingold	Wotan
	Siegfried	Wanderer
	Tristan und Isolde	Kurvenal
	Walküre	Wotan

Repertoire Concert

Bach	Mass in b minor
	St. John Passion
	St. Matthew Passion
	The Christmas Oratorio
Beethoven	Mass in c major
	9. Symphony
Brahms	A German Requiem
	Four serious songs
Duruflé	Requiem
Fauré	Requiem
Handel	Messiah (in german)
	Saul
Haydn	Creation Mass
Mahler	8. Symphony (both deep voices)
	Kindertotenlieder
	Rückert-Lieder
	Songs of "Des Knabens Wunderhorn"
Mendelssohn	Elias (english and german version)
Mozart	Krönungsmesse
	Mass in C major
Schönberg	Gurre-Lieder
Schubert	Mass in E flat major
	Mass in A flat major
Shostakovich	Michelangelo songs (in german)

News

Budapest or Bayreuth

Off to Budapest, because as the New York Times reported back in 2013: "No Tickets for Bayreuth? Budapest has a Wagner Festival, Too." And Wagner fans shouldn't miss it, especially this year! From the 20th June 2024, visitors can look forward to a complete performance Ring des Nibelungen, with Danish bass-baritone Johan Reuter portraying Wotan/Wanderer in the first three parts. He will be joined by Irene Theorin /Brünnhilde, Magnus Vigilius /Siegmund and Stefan Vinke/Siegfried. Under the musical direction of Ádám Fischer, highly esteemed for his interpretation of Wagner's works, and directed by Hartmut Schörghofer, the audience is sure to fall under the spell of the Nibelungen-Ring.

Further performance dates and information can be found here:

www.mupa.hu