Rolf
Romei Tenor

The Swiss tenor Rolf Romei studied in Winterthur and Karlsruhe and privately with Nicolai Gedda. He was a permanent ensemble member in St. Gallen and Augsburg as well as at the Oldenburg State Theatre. Guest engagements have taken him to the opera houses of 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 Hamburg, the Ruhrtriennale and most recently to the English National Opera in London and as Max ('Der Freischütz') to the Bregenz Festival. Rolf Romei has been a member of the Theater Basel ensemble since summer 2006. Here he has appeared in the title roles in 'Lohengrin', 'Parsifal', 'The Tales of Hoffmann', '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 and Don José ('Carmen'). In addition to his stage activities, Rolf Romei regularly gives recitals and chamber music evenings and is in demand as an interpreter of new music as well as a soloist in the great oratorios of the classical and romantic periods.