About
Bastiaan Everink is a typical dramatic baritone with its dark colored voice. Starting from the season 2011/12 he sings as a regular soloist at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. There he sang, among other things, Escamillo in Carmen, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor and Klingsor in Parsifal. On the occasion of the 100 anniversary of the Deutsche Oper, he sang the role of Pizarro in Fidelio together with the soprano Anja Kampe and bass Matti Salminen under the baton of Donald Runnicles.
Before he was discovered as a singer, he had a successful career in the Royal Dutch Marines Corps. As a special forces soldier, he was decorated for his participation in the first Gulf war in 1991. Then he decided to change the direction of his life. He studied classical singing the first seven years at the Conservatory in Enschede and Amsterdam, later in ‘ The Studio or Vocal Arts ‘ by James McCray.
In 2002 he made his debut in the opera house of Bonn and since then he has added more than 30 roles to his repertoire. He was featured in the National Opera Amsterdam, Frankfurter Oper, Innsbruck, Tiroler Country theater, Staatstheater Nurnberg and the State theater Wiesbaden, The Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Roles in his repertoire include Scarpia in Tosca. Nabucco in Nabucco, Jago in Otello, Amonasro in Aida, Gerard from Andrea Chenier, Tonio in Pagliacci, Michele in Tabarro, Jochanaan in Salome, Wolfram in Tannhauser and Eugen Onegin in Eugen Onegin. He made his debut in 2013 as “Der Fliegende Hollander” in Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. In 2015 he made his very succesful debut in Italy as Nabucco. In 2016 he published his book “Battlestage”. Future engagements will bring him to: Athens National Theatre, Deutsche Oper Berlin, The National Opera in Amsterdam.