Thomas Gazheli

Thomas Gazheli is a well known bass-baritone on the international

opera and concert stages. Recent operatic highlights include: Klingsor

and Wanderer at Teatro Massimo Palermo, Wotan at Teatro Petruzzelli

Bari, Alberich in Ring der Nibelungen at the New National Theatre

Tokyo, Nationatheatre Prag and Staatstheater Kassel, Don Pizarro at

Teatro Maestranza Sevilla, Flying Dutchman at Semperoper Dresden, at

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, at Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen, at the

Nationalopera Budapest, at the Opera de Montreal, at Staatstheater

Wiesbaden, at Greek National Opera Athens, at Michigan Opera

Theatre and at NCPA Beijing, Barnaba and Kurwenal at NCPA Beijing,

Telramund at Opera de Marseille, Don Estoban (Der Zwerg) at Teatro

San Carlo Napoli, Il Prigioniero at Beethoven Festival Bonn and

Jochanaan at Oper Graz. Further invitation led him as Don Pizarro at

Opera Royal de Wallonie Liege, Prometheus (Die Vögel) in Erl, Orest in

Detroit, Alberich at Opera de Oviedo, Alberich, Amfortas, Telramund,

Wanderer and Nabucco at Tyrolean Festival Erl, Rigoletto at

Saarlaendisches Staatstheater Saarbruecken, Gusmano (Alzira by

Verdi) at South Tyrol Festival, Alberich (Das Rheingold) at Oper Leipzig

and at the international Festival of Santander, as well at Aalto Theatre

Essen, as Don Pizarro at Teatro Regio di Torino, as Telramund at

Teatro Massimo Palermo, as Wanderer, Alberich, and Gunther at Teatro

Petruzzelli Bari, as Jochanaan at Teatro Verdi Trieste, as Ebn-Chakia at

Theater an der Wien, as the 4 Villians (Les Contes d'Hoffman) at Oper

Essen and Volksoper Wien, as Gunther at Oper Essen, as Amfortas,

Wanderer and all three Alberichs with Mo Gustav Kuhn in Erl, as

Papageno at Teatro alla Scala and in Rom, as Guntram at Teatro

Massimo Bellini Catania, as Don Giovanni, Guglielmo Tell, Kunrad

(Feuersnot by R.Strauss) and Friedrich (Liebesverbot by R.Wagner) at

Prinzregententheater Munich, as Lescaut at Oper Frankfurt, as Ford at

Oper Bonn, as Monterone at Bavarian State Opera Munich and Oper

Frankfurt, as Gianni Schicchi, Peter Besenbinder (Father) in Hänsel und

Gretel, Kaspar, Michele, Don Alfonso at Gaertnerplatz Theater Munich,

as

Amfortas in Breslau, Jochanaan and Amfortas at Oper Wuppertal,

Escamillo at Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, Barbiere di Siviglia,

Papageno and Lescaut (Boulevard Solitude by Henze) at Oper Basel,

Wozzeck at Lucerne Festival, as Orest at Teatro Politeama Palermo, as

Dr.Panglos/Martin (Candide by L.Bernstein) at Philharmonie Berlin.

Thomas Gazheli was born in Karlsruhe , where he began his musical

education as trumpet- and violinplayer. He studied singing at the 

Hochschule Frankfurt am Main with Prof. Maclane-Lanier and completed

his studies with Prof.Josef Metternich in Munich. During his studies in

Frankfurt Donald Runnicles engaged him as a soloist at the Städtische

Bühnen Freiburg, followed by engagements at Theater Basel and

Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich,where he sang a wide and varied

repertoire as a principal baritone.

A live recording as Flying Dutchman at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

under the baton of Fabio Luisi was released with great succes in 2020.

In Summer 2020 he took part as Beckmesser in a Selcuk Cara Arthouse

Film Production of The Meistersinger by Richard Wagner, which is

officialy selected for the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 2021.

Thomas Gazheli is also known as concert singer with a broad concert

repertoire - he sang at the Philharmonie Berlin, Musikvereinssaal

Vienna, Philharmonie Köln, Musikhalle Hamburg, Brucknerhaus Linz,

Liederhalle Stuttgart, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Philharmonie Munich,

Herkulessaal and was invited for several seasons to performe with

Haydn Orchestra Bolzano.

In the course of his career, he has worked with such notable conductors

as Paolo Arrivabeni, Constantinos Carydis, Paolo Carignani, Daniel

Harding, Gustav Kuhn, Fabio Luisi Oksana Lyniv, Riccardo Muti, Günter

Neuhold, Gianandrea Noseda, Stefan Anton Reck, Donald Runnicles,

Ulf Schirmer, Stefan Soltesz, Marcello Viotti, Omer Meir Wellber, KeriLynn Wilson, and colabourated with stage directors as Peer Boysen, Luc

Bondy, Robert Carsen, Paul Curran, Hugo de Ana, Giancarlo del

Monaco, Claus Guth, Christoph Loy ,Vera Nemirova,Graham Vick and

Herbert Wernicke.