Biography

The Croatian baritone has been part of the ensemble at Opera Cologne for a long period of time and remains connected with the house through regular cooperation.
Having achieved his singing degree with honors studying in Graz with Prof. Wolfgang Gamerith, he continued his studies in Lied and Oratorio. He completed them with Prof. Hans Sotin at Musikhochschule Cologne and in master classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, among others.

Miljenko Turk was awarded in several international singing competitions and has a wide-ranged concert repertoire. He was a guest several times with the Cologne Philharmonic, at Munich’s Gasteig, Bamberg, at Schlossfestspiele Ludwigsburg, and at the Düsseldorf Tonhalle.
At Opera Cologne he sang Papageno, Dandini, Silvio, Malatesta, Marcello, Guglielmo, Wildschütz-Graf, Sharpless, Donner, and with great success Billy Budd, Wolfram, Harlekin, and Jakob Lenz to name the latest.

He has been a guest at Festspiele Bayreuth, Salzburger Festspiele, Styriarte Festival Graz, Garsington Festival, and Ludwigsburger Festspiele as well as in Dresden, Stuttgart, and Vienna where he was celebrated for his Graf von Luxemburg, Papageno, Barber of Seville, and Dr. Falke.

His recent opera projects included Don Giovanni (Rostock), Guglielmo/Cosi fan tutte and Ottokar/Der Freischütz (Cologne), Freddy/My fair Lady (Muscat in Oman), Benvenuto Cellini and Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Dresden / Staatsoperette).
Recent concert engagements led him throughout Europe on a tour with the NDR-Orchestra under the baton of Thomas Hengelbrock (Paris, Hamburg), with the Radio Philharmonic Orkest under Markus Stenz (Amsterdam), a tour with the NWD Philharmonic under Andrew Grams, and Melot/Tristan and Isolde in concert with the Tonhalle Orchestra Düsseldorf. Recent projects at his parent house, Opera Cologne, included the new productions Carmen and Berlioz‘ Béatrice et Bénédict/Claudio under the baton of Francois-Xavier Roth, John/ La bête dans la jungle, Marcello/La Bohème, Dr Falke/Die Fledermaus, as well as Graf Gustav von Pottenstein in Das Land des Lächelns (concert version) under Stefan Soltesz.

At the beginning of 2016, Miljenko Turk made his debut at the Opéra national de Paris in the new production by Stefan Herheim of Wagners‘ Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Also, he debuted as
Fieramosca in Berlioz’ Benvenuto Cellini and sang in Rihm’s Die Eroberung von Mexiko at Opera Cologne, as well as in Rihm’s Deus Passus at the Tivoli in Utrecht under the baton of Markus Stenz.
Miljenko Turk celebrates frequent successes in the Liedfach and is also able to accompany himself at the piano.

In the 23/24 season, Turk remains loyal to the Cologne Opera, where he can be seen and heard as Valentin in Gounod’s Faust under F.-X. Roth, as Graf Danilo Danilowitsch in Die lustige Witwe, Peter in Hansel and Gretel, and in the world premiere “The Strangers” by Frank Pesci. In addition, he can be heard as Papageno/Magic Flute in Zagreb and in the semi-staged version of Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten with the Gürzenich-Orchester under F.-X. Roth (staging Calixto Bieito) in Cologne, Hamburg
and Paris.
Furthermore, Turk will perform the role of Melot/Tristan und Isolde at Palermo’s Teatro Massimo under the baton of Omer Meir Wellber.

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