Rolf
Romei Tenor

Swiss tenor Rolf Romei studied in Winterthur and Karlsruhe and privately with Nicolai Gedda. He was a permanent member of the ensemble in St. Gallen and Augsburg as well as at the Oldenburg State Theater. Guest engagements took him to opera houses in Stuttgart, Darmstadt, Bern, Düsseldorf, and Graz, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Theater an der Wien, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Novaya Opera Moscow, the Edinburgh and Enescu Festivals in Bucharest, the Kampnagel Music Festival in Hamburg, the Ruhrtriennale, and most recently the English National Opera in London, as well as Max in Der Freischütz at the Bregenz Festival. In addition to his stage work, Rolf Romei regularly gives song and chamber music recitals and is in demand both as an interpreter of new music and as a soloist in the great oratorios of the Classical and Romantic periods. Rolf Romei has been a member of the ensemble at Theater Basel since 2006. Here he has performed the title roles in ‹Lohengrin›, ‹Parsifal›, ‹Hoffmanns Erzählungen›, ‹Faust›, ‹Idomeneo›, and ‹Pelléas et Mélisande›, as well as in ‹Rusalka›, ‹Elektra›, Stockhausen's ‹Donnerstag aus Licht›, Korngold's ‹Die tote Stadt›, Philip Glass' ‹Satyagraha›, the world premiere of ‹Diodati.Unendlich›, as well as Max in ‹Der Freischütz› and Don José in ‹Carmen›. In 2024/25, he enjoyed great success as Siegfried in ‹Ring des Nibelungen›, directed by Benedikt von Peter. In the 2025/26 season, he will appear as Jim Mahoney in ‹Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny›, among other roles.