Tomislav Mužek

Vita

After his studies in Vienna, the Croatian tenor won first prize at the 1999 Ferruccio Tagliavini Competition in Deutschlandsberg, Austria.

 

Tomislav Mužek was engaged at the Bremen opera house in 2000 (where he sang Don Ottavio, Alfredo, Ferrando, Tamino and Rodolfo) and remained a member of the ensemble till 2002.

 

Since then, the tenor has been a welcome guest at all the great opera houses, appearing at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Staatsoper in Berlin, the Hamburgische Staatsoper, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Volksoper in Vienna, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Malmö Opera, West Australia Opera, the Opera House in Daegu (Korea), the Teatro Communale in Florence, Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse and the Opéra National in Paris to sing parts such as Don Ottavio (DON GIOVANNI), Tamino (DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE), Lohengrin (LOHENGRIN), Florestan (FIDELIO), Erik (THE FLYING DUTCHMAN), Ferrando (COSI FAN TUTTE), Rodolfo (LA BOHEME), Alfredo (LA TRAVIATA), Don Carlos (DON CARLOS), Nemorino (L’ELISIR D’AMORE) and Edgardo (LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR).

 

In recent years, he has played roles such as Steersman and Erik (THE FLYING DUTCHMAN) at the Bayreuth Festival. Tomislav Mužek made a guest appearance with the Berlin Philharmonic under Bernhard Haitink performing the Missa Solemnis both at the Berlin Philharmonie and at the Salzburg Easter Festival.

 

Since the autumn of 2014 the singer has forged close links with the Semperoper in Dresden, where he has portrayed roles such Rodolfo (LA BOHÈME), Cavaradossi (TOSCA), Foresto (ATTILA), Lenski (EUGEN ONEGIN), Princ (RUSALKA), Tamino (DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE), Max (DER FREISCHÜTZ), Erik (DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER), Florestan (FIDELIO), Stolzing (DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG) and as The King’s Son in the new production of DIE KÖNIGSKINDER.

 

2022-08-30

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22.03.2020 - Tomislav Mužek: Zorko moja

The famous Croatian tenor Tomislav Mužek recorded the Porin aria from the 3rd act of the knightly opera “Porin” by Vatroslav Lisinski in the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall as part of the campaign in which we fight against the consequences of the earthquake and the coronavirus.

Wagner: Lohengrin - Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, 2015

Wagner: THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (Bayreuth 2013-2015)

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OPERA

Beethoven FIDELIO Florestan
Bizet CARMEN Don José
Donizetti LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT Tonio
  L’ELISIR D’AMORE Nemorino
Dvořák RUSALKA Der Prinz
Gotovac ERO S ONOGA SVIJETA (ERO DER SCHELM) MICÁ genannt ERO
Gounod FAUST (MARGARETHE) Faust
Humperdinck DIE KÖNIGSKINDER Königssohn
Mozart COSÌ FAN TUTTE Ferrando
  DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE Tamino
  DON GIOVANNI Don Ottavio
  IDOMENEO Idomeneo
  LA CLEMENZA DI TITO Tito
Puccini GIANNI SCHICCHI Rinuccio
  LA BOHÈME Rodolfo
  MADAMA BUTTERFLY Pinkerton
  TOSCA Cavaradossi
Strauss DER ROSENKAVALIER Ein Sänger
  SALOME Narraboth
Tschaikowski EUGEN ONEGIN Lenski
Verdi ATTILA Foresto
  DON CARLO Don Carlo (5 Atti – ital.)
  LA TRAVIATA Alfredo
  LUISA MILLER Rodolfo
  MACBETH Macduff
  SIMON BOCCANEGRA Gabriele Adorno
  UN BALLO IN MASCHERA Riccardo
Wagner DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER Erik
  DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG Walther von Stolzing
  LOHENGRIN Lohengrin
Weber DER FREISCHÜTZ Max

CONCERT

Ludwig van Beethoven Missa solemnis in D-Dur, op. 123
  9. Sinfonie in d-Moll op. 125
Gaetano Donizetti Messa da Requiem in d-Moll
Antonín Dvořák Stabat Mater, op. 58 (B 71)
  Requiem op. 89 (B 165)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem in d-Moll (KV 626)
  Krönungsmesse in C-Dur (KV 317)
Giacomo Puccini Messa di Gloria
Gioachino Rossini Stabat Mater
  Petite Messe solennelle
  div. Messa per Rossini
Franz von Suppé Requiem
Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem

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