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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. He frequented masterclasses of Ernst Haefliger, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson and Richard Trimborn. Since 1996 he has been a soloist of the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, where he sings a large repertoire.

In the 2022/23 season Reuter will take on the role of Orest from Elektra at the Royal Theatre Copenhagen, Barak from Die Frau ohne Schatten at San Francisco Opera and Friedrich von Telramund from Lohengrin at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, among others.

In season 21/22 he made his much anticipated return to the Opéra National de Paris, after almost two decades absence, collaborating once again with stage director William Kentridge - this time in Wozzeck. He starred in the new production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg as Hans Sachs at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Johan was part of the exciting line-up to celebrate the Centennial of San Francisco Opera, making his first appearance on the West Coast with Die Frau ohne Schatten.

Highlights from the past seasons include Dead Man Walking, Un ballo in maschera, Cavalleria rusticana/I pagliacci, Scarpia in Tosca [all marking his debut in the roles] in Copenhagen, Barak in Die Frau ohne Schatten in London, New York, Berlin, Zürich and Amsterdam, the title role of Nabucco at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Braunfels' Jeanne d'Arc at the Salzburg Festival, Vec Makropulos at the Met and the Salzburg Festival, Wotan in Das Rheingold in Munich and Budapest. He created the role of Theseus in the world première of Harrison Birthwistle's The Minotaur at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden where he has also appeared in Elektra, Salome, Wozzeck and The Tsar's Bride. Der fliegende Holländer in Madrid, Berlin and Copenhagen, Le nozze di Figaro at Theater an der Wien and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Macbeth in Lisbon, From the House of the Dead in Paris and Madrid and Così fan tutte in Hamburg.

Recent concert appearances include Haydn's Schöpfung and Die Jahreszeiten, Mahler's 8th Symphony, Rückert lieder and Das klagende Lied, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Brahm's Vier ernste Gesänge, Ein deutsches Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette, Peer Gynt and Michelangelo sonnets by Shostakovich.
He has given song recitals in Copenhagen, Hannover, Frankfurt, Bergen and Madrid.

Johan Reuter 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
boris@orlob.net
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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

Debut at the Ruhrtriennale

Johan faces an exciting season with many different challenges. It begins at the Ruhrtriennale, where he takes on the role of Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov in Janacek’s masterpiece “From the House of the Dead” under the musical direction of Dennis Russell Davies. Performances of this eagerly awaited new production by Dmitri Tcherniakov are on August 31st and on September 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th and 9th, all taking place at the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum.

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