Repertoire:

HIGHLIGHTS

Brighella (ARIADNE AUF NAXOS) - Duca (RIGOLETTO) - Jenik (DIE VERKAUFTE BRAUT) - Pang (TURANDOT) - Sänger (DER ROSENKAVALIER) - Steuermann (DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER) - Tamino, 1.Geharnischter (DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE)

Engagements at:

Bregenzer Festspiele | Deutsche Oper am Rhein | Oper im Steinbruch | Staatsoper Unter den Linden | Theater Magdeburg | Theater Regensburg | Wuppertaler Bühnen |

Jonathan Winell

Vita

Beginning with the 2025/2026 season, New York-born tenor Jonathan Winell will join the ensemble of the Niedersächsische Staatsoper Hannover. His scheduled roles include the Singer (Der Rosenkavalier), Adam Smith (Homo Oeconomicus), Pang (Turandot), Cassio (Otello), Don Curzio (Le nozze di Figaro), among others.

 

He has previously been a member of the International Opera Studio at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, and a company member at Theater Regensburg and Theater Magdeburg.

 

Career highlights include Rodolfo (La Bohème), Pang (Turandot), Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Cassio (Otello) and Narraboth (Salome) at Theater Magdeburg; Pang (Turandot) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf; the Steersman (Der fliegende Holländer) at Landestheater Detmold; Brighella (Ariadne auf Naxos) and First Armed Man (Die Zauberflöte) at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden; Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) at Oper Wuppertal; Un Araldo and Il Re Gonzaga in Franco Faccio’s Amleto at the Bregenz Festival; Baroncelli (Rienzi) in his Lincoln Center debut in New York; and Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) in Regensburg. He has also appeared at the Savonlinna Opera Festival as Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and at the St. Margarethen Quarry Opera once again as Pang (Turandot).

 

Jonathan Winell has collaborated with conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Sebastian Weigle, Leo Hussain, Wayne Marshall, Christopher Moulds, Eve Queler, John Nelson and John Baril, and has participated in masterclasses with Jane Klaviter, Bob Morrison and Margaret Singer.

 

He is the recipient and finalist of numerous competitions, among them second prize at the Leyla Gencer Voice Competition in Istanbul, semi-finalist at the International Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in Helsinki, and finalist for the Eastern Region at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

 

Jonathan Winell studied at the Hartt School and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Academy of Vocal Arts. He also pursued Italian studies at the Scuola Leonardo da Vinci in Florence and attended the Florence Voice Seminar and the Bel Canto Institute.

 

2025-08-11

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Repertoire

Opera / Operetta

Bellini I PURITANI Arturo
  LA SONNAMBULA Elvino
Bizet LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES Nadir
Donizetti ANNA BOLENA Lord Percy
  DON PASQUALE Ernesto
  LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT Tonio
  L’ELISIR D’AMORE Nemorino
  LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Sir Edgardo
Faccio AMLETO (HAMLET) Ein Herold | Der König Gonzaga
Gounod ROMÉO ET JULIETTE Romé
Kálmán DIE CSÁRDÁSFÜRSTIN Edwin
Lehár THE MERRY WIDOW Camille de Rosillon
Mozart DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL Pedrillo
  THE MAGIC FLUTE Tamino
  DON GIOVANNI Don Ottavio
Offenbach LA BELLE HÉLÈNE König Ajax I.
  PARISER LEBEN Bobinet | Frick
Puccini GIANNI SCHICCHI Rinuccio
  LA BOHÈME Rodolfo
  MADAMA BUTTERFLY Yamadori
Rossini IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA Graf Almaviva
Smetana THE BARTERED BRIDE Hans (Jeník)
Strauß DIE FLEDERMAUS Alfred
Strauss ARIADNE AUF NAXOS Brighella
  DER ROSENKAVALIER An Italian singer, An innkeeper, Major-Domo
  SALOME Narraboth
Verdi LA TRAVIATA Alfredo
  OTELLO Cassio
  RIGOLETTO Herzog von Mantua
Wagner THE FLYING DUTCHMAN Steuermann
  DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG David

 

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