About
The german bass Thorsten GRÜMBEL studied at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and at the Musikhochschule Lübeck.
After engagements in Duesseldorf (Deutsche Oper am Rhein) and Frankfurt Opera House he returned 2012 to the ensemble of Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Duesseldorf.
Guest performances led him to Dortmund, Essen, Freiburg, Kiel, Leipzig, Cologne, Frankurt, to Prague National Opera, National Theater Taipeh, to the State Opera Houses of Wiesbaden, Nuremberg, Hanover and Munich, Semperoper Dresden, Komische Oper Berlin, to the National Opera Prag, the National Theater Taipeh, to the Opéra National Paris (Bastille), Opernhaus Zurich, Theater Basel and to the opera festivals like Mézières, Montreux, Strasbourg, Savonlinna.
His repertoire includes Antinoo (Monterverdi: Ulisse), Osmin (Entführung aus dem Serail), Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Komtur (Don Giovanni), Sarastro (Magic Flute), Narbal (LesTroyens), Banco (Macbeth), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Graf Walter (Luisa Miller), Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Philipp II (Don Carlos), Il re (Aida), Daland (Flying dutchman), Landgraf Hermann (Tannhäuser), König Heinrich (Lohengrin) Fasolt (Rheingold), Hunding (Walkure), König Marke (Tristan), Gurnemanz (Parsifal), Gremin (Eugen Onegin), Wassermann (Rusalka), Colline (La Bohème), Peneios (Daphne). La Roche (Capriccio), Pommersfelden (Hindemith: Mathis der Maler) and Hagen (Loriot Ring).
2015/16 he will expand his repertoire with Graf Waldner (Arabella) and Ochs (Rosenkavalier) in Duesseldorf.
As guest he is invited to sing Gurnemanz (Parsifal) in the Royal Opera of Stockholm.
He will perform Sarastro (Magic Flute) in guest performances of the Komische Oper Berlin in Barcelona.
Concerts he had with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutschen Symphonie-Orchester Berlin,the WDR Radio Orchester Cologne, in the section of Ancient Music with “Concerto Köln” and the “Neuen Düsseldorfer Hofmusik”.
His repertoire in concert includes Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Christmas Oratory, Haydn’s Creation, Mozart’s Requiem and Missas, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Eliah and Verdi’s Requiem.
Concerts with him took place in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, USA, France, Italy, Poland and South Corea including Radio and CD productions.