Biography

The Croatian baritone has long been a member of the Kölner Oper ensemble and maintains a regular collaborating relationship with the house.
After receiving his singing diploma with distinction in Graz under Prof. Wolfgang Gamerith, he continued his studies in song and oratorio, completing his studies with Prof. Hans Sotin at the Cologne University of Music and in master classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, among others.

Miljenko Turk has won awards at several international singing competitions and has a broad concert repertoire. He has performed numerous times with the Cologne Philharmonic, at the Munich Gasteig, in Bamberg, at the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival, and at the Düsseldorf Tonhalle.

He has performed at the Bayreuth Festival, the Salzburg Festival, the Styriarte Festival Graz, the Garsington Festival, the Ludwigsburg Festival and the Aix-en-Provence Festival, as well as in Dresden, Stuttgart and Vienna, where he was celebrated for his works “Count of Luxembourg”, “Papageno”, “The Barber of Seville”, “Dr. Falke” and d'Artisan / Collector in Picture a day like this.

At the Oper Köln, his roles have included Papageno, Dandini, Silvio, Malatesta, Marcello, Guglielmo, Wildschütz-Graf, Sharpless, Donner, Rihm's The Conquest of Mexico, Billy Budd, Wolfram, Harlequin and Jakob Lenz, Valentin in Gounod's Faust under F.-X. Roth, Count Danilo Danilowitsch in The Merry Widow, Peter in Hansel and Gretel, and the world premiere of "The Strangers" by Frank Pesci, including the new productions "Béatrice et Bénédict/Claudio von Carmen und Berlioz" under the direction of Francois-Xavier Roth, John/La bête dans la Jungle, Marcello/La Bohème, Dr. Falke/Die Fledermaus, and Count Gustav von Pottenstein in "The Land of Smiles" (concert version) under Stefan Soltesz.

Opera projects from recent seasons include 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), with which he also made his debut alongside Fieramosca in Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini at the Opéra national de Paris. Additionally, Papageno/Magic Flute in Zagreb and the semi-staged version of Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten with the Gürzenich Orchestra under F.-X. Roth (directed by Calixto Bieito) in Cologne, Hamburg and Paris, Melot/Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo under the direction of Omer Meir Wellber and Ottokar/Der Freischütz at the Leipzig Opera.
Most recently, concerts have taken him across Europe on a tour with the NDR Orchestra under the direction of Thomas Hengelbrock (Paris, Hamburg), with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra to Amsterdam and the Tivoli in Utrecht under Markus Stenz, and with the NWD Philharmonic Orchestra under Andrew Grams, performing Melot/Tristan und Isolde, and with the Tonhalle Orchestra Düsseldorf.

Miljenko Turk enjoys regular success in the lieder repertoire and is also adept at accompanying himself on the piano.

In the 2025/26 season, Miljenko Turk will perform the roles of Donner/Das Rheingold and Artisan and Collector in Benjamin and Crimp's Picture a Day Like This at the Oper Köln.

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