Biography
Born in Chicago, Robert Bork began his studies in the US and completed them with honours in Germany. He started his career as a member of the ensemble at the opera in Cologne.Since then, guest engagements led him to renowned houses, including the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Palau de les Arts Valencia, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Hamburg State Opera, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Teatro la Fenice,Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, Royal Flemish Opera in Antwerp, Dutch National Opera, as well as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
There he worked with conductors such as Kent Nagano, Valery Gergiev, Marc Minkowski, Pinchas Steinberg, James Conlon, Axel Kober, Simone Young, Oksana Lyniv, Sebastian Weigle, Hartmut Haenchen, Ivan Fischer, Juraj Valčuha and Ingo Metzmacher.
His wide ranging repertoire covers i.a. Jochanaan/Salome, Holländer/Der fliegende Holländer, Fritz Kothner/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Klingsor/Parsifal, Faninal/Der Rosenkavalier, Music Master/Ariadne auf Naxos, Kaspar/Der Freischütz, Masetto/Don Giovanni, Balstrode/Peter Grimes, Don Carlo/La Forza del Destino, Animal Tamer, Rodrigo, and Athlete/Lulu, Simon/Violanta, and Mephisto/Faust.
Recent highlights on the opera stage include Faninal/Der Rosenkavalier under the baton of Kent Nagano in Los Angeles, Albert/Werther und Turnage‘s Greek at Opernfestspielen Munich, Balstrode/Peter Grimes at Palau de les Arts Valencia and at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Wotan/Die Walküre in Bari and Kassel, Klingsor/Parsifal in Turku, Widmann’s Babylon/Priest King at Concertgebouw Amsterdam under Markus Stenz, as well as Gunter in Wagner’s Ring in Amsterdam and Antwerp. Furthermore, he sang the lead role, Ben Ata, in the world premiere of Philip Glass' Marriage of zones three, four and five.
Robert Bork is also very sought after as a concert singer. His repertoire is as versatile as his opera repertoire and ranges from the baroque to the contemporary, inclduing works such as J.S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion and Mass in b-minor, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem and Mahler’s 8th Symphony, as well as Henze’s Das Floß der Medusa.
Engagements of these past seasons included among others, Kurwenal/Tristan und Isolde in Bari, as well as concerts with the Orchestre du Capitole in Toulouse, Dortmund and Flensburg Philharmonic Orchestras.
He opened 22/23 season with Bernstein`s "Candide" in concert version with Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Management
General ManagementArtist Manager
Boris Orlob
Managing Director
boris@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-172-8 51 55 14
Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
| Bach, J.S. | Mass in B minor |
| St. Matthew Passion | |
| Beethoven | Symphony no. 9 |
| Brahms | Ein deutsches Requiem |
| Henze | Das Floß der Medusa |
| Mahler | Symphony no. 8 |
| Vaughan Williams | Fantasia on Christmas Carols |
| Hodie |
Repertoire Opera
| Adams | Doctor Atomic | Edward Teller |
| Bartók | Bluebeard's Castle | Bluebeard |
| Beethoven | Fidelio | Don Pizarro |
| Berg | Lulu | an Animal Tamer |
| an Athlete | ||
| Professor | ||
| Britten | Billy Budd | Mr. Redburn |
| Peter Grimes | Balstrode | |
| Enescu | Oedipe | Créon |
| Fénelon | Faust | Méphistophélès |
| Glass | The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (UA) | Ben Ata |
| Händel | Serse | Elviro |
| Henze | Die Bassariden | Kadmos |
| Korngold | Violanta | Simon |
| Massenet | Manon | Comte des Grieux |
| Werther | Albert | |
| Mozart | Don Giovanni | Masetto |
| Puccini | Tosca | Scarpia |
| Turandot | Mandarin | |
| Saint-Saëns | Henry VIII | Henry VIII |
| Schubert | Fierrabras | Boland |
| Strauss, R. | Ariadne auf Naxos | Musiklehrer |
| Der Rosenkavalier | Faninal | |
| Salomé | Jochanaan | |
| Verdi | La forza del destino | Don Carlo di Vargas |
| Simon Boccanegra | Paolo Albiani | |
| Wagner | Das Liebesverbot | Friedrich |
| Das Rheingold | Donner | |
| Der fliegende Holländer | Der Holländer | |
| Die Meistersinger v. Nürnberg | Fritz Kothner | |
| Die Walküre | Wotan | |
| Götterdämmerung | Gunther | |
| Parsifal | Klingsor | |
| Rienzi | Kardinal Orvieto | |
| Tannhäuser | Biterolf | |
| Tristan und Isolde | Kurwenal | |
| Weber | Der Freischütz | Kaspar |
| Widmann | Babylon | Priesterkönig/Der Tod |
| Zimmermann | Die Soldaten | Mary |
News
A new Ring is being forged!
Beijing is getting a new Ring, and several BOM artists are helping to forge it! The new staging by Italian stage director Stefano Poda features Bettina Ranch as Fricka, Tómas Tómasson as Alberich and Robert Bork as Donner, alongside colleagues such as Egils Siliņš (Wotan), Arnold Bezuyen (Mime) and Christian Franz (Loge).The production is conducted by Lü Jia and can be experienced at Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts on the following nights:
August 28/30 & September 01/03, 2024
Further information:
www.chncpa.org/...
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Presse
William Walton Belshazzar's Feast/ Flensburg und Sønderborg / 27.05.22 / fla.de
" ...den formidable solist, bass-barytonen Robert Bork .... "
William Walton Belshazzar's Feast/ Flensburg und Sønderborg / 26.05.22 / onlinemerker.com
"Robert Bork gestaltet das Solo mit schöner, reifer Baritonstimme [...] und weiß sich stets klug und ohne angestrengt zu wirken, gegen die Klangemassen der Chöre und des Orchesters zu behaupten. "
Peter Grimes/ Palau de les Arts Valencia / 11.02.18 / operatraveller.com
"Robert Bork was a warm and generous Balstrode"
Elektra/ Teatro di San Carlo Neapel / 12.04.17 / bachtrack.com
"Robert Bork was an authoritative Orestes"