Tijl Faveyts

A current member of the Komische Oper Berlin, he has performed leading roles such as Mozart's Sarastro and Hunding in Wagner's Die Walküre and Gurnemanz [1][2][3]Parsifal at major opera houses, concert halls and festivals, and made recordings.

Born in Belgium, Faveyts studied voice at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, with Ralf Döring and Robert Holl.

[4] Faveyts was engaged at the Theater St. Gallen from 2005 to 2012,[5] where he appeared in roles such as Don Basilio in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, Oroveso in Bellini's Norma, and the Doctor in Alban Berg's Wozzeck.

[7] In 2019 he joined the ensemble of the Komische Oper Berlin,[5] where he will be seen as Sarastro, Gremin in Tchaikovsky's Jewgeni Onegin, Commendatore in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Sparafucile in Verdi's Rigoletto.

[4] He has worked with conductors such as Antonino Fogliani, Kent Nagano,[28] Fabio Luisi, Kazushi Ōno, Giacomo Sagripanti, Konstantin Trinks, Marc Albrecht, Daniel Harding, Christophe Eschenbach, Antonello Manacorda and Carlo Rizzi.

Stage directors with whom he worked have included Stéphane Braunschweig, Barrie Kosky,[29][30] Vincent Broussard, Mariame Clément [de], Frank Castorf, Stefan Herheim, Kasper Holten and Guy Joosten [nl].