Biography

After studying political science and communication, Dutch tenor Marcel Reijans began studying singing at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam in 1990, before completing his master's degree in opera singing at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia from 1994 to 1996.
 
His wide-ranging repertoire includes works from the 17th to the 21st century in the fields of opera, song and oratorio. His worldwide engagements have brought him together with conductors such as Yves Abel, Daniel Barenboim, Bertrand de Billy, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Hartmut Haenchen, Thomas Hengelbrock, Philippe Jordan, Sir Simon Rattle, Marc Albrecht, Edo de Waart and Jaap van Zweden.
 
He has enjoyed particular success with Mozart roles such as Ferrando/Così fan tutte, Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni, Basilio/Le Nozze di Figaro, Tamino/Die Zauberflöte and the title role in Mitridate, rè di Ponto.
However, his repertoire also includes roles such as Tom Rakewell/The Rake's Progress, Fenton/Falstaff, Narraboth/Salomé, Chevalier de la Force/Dialogues des Carmélites, Walther von der Vogelweide/Tannhäuser, Andres/Wozzeck, Kudrjáš/Katja Kabanova, Nando/Tiefland, Aeneas/Dido and Aeneas, Candide/Candide, Hippolyte/Hippolyte et Aricie, Ernesto/Don Pasquale, Janek/Vêc Makropulos, A Young Sailor/Tristan and Isolde, Camille/The Merry Widow, Faust/La Damnation de Faust, Froh/Das Rheingold and Le Berger/Oedipus Rex. 

Highlights of recent seasons include his role debut as Don José in Bizet's Carmen in Dessau, the role of Erik/The Flying Dutchman in Luxembourg, Caen, Bonn and Düsseldorf, Gérald/Lakmé in Dessau, Tristan/La vin herbé in Brussels and Berlin, 1st Priest and 1st Armoured Man/The Magic Flute and Horace Adams/Peter Grimes at the Dutch National Opera,  L'Imperatore/Turandot and Valzacchi/Der Rosenkavalier at the Nationale Opera in Amsterdam, the world premiere of Theo Loevendie's “The Rise of Spinoza” at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Schmidt/Werner on a major tour of the Netherlands. Reijans' other past projects include the Dutch opera “Thijl” by Jan van Gilse, a concert performance of Le vin herbé with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm, Klas Torstensson's contemporary opera “The Expedition” and appearances at the Orlando Festival in Holland.  

His most recent concert appearances include Das Lied von der Erde in St. Gallen, the St Matthew Passion and Mozart's Requiem in The Hague, Mendelssohn's Lobgesang on tour in the Netherlands, Lucifer in Antwerp, Verdi's Requiem with the Noord Nederlands Orkest, Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orkest van Gelderland, and in Tokyo with the Vienna Academy under the baton of Martin Haselböck, and in Handel's Messiah at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. 

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