Bogdan Taloș

The bass Bogdan Talos comes from Cluj-Napoca in Romania. He trained at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy there, attended master courses and won prizes in a variety of competitions. His professional career began at the opera houses in Cluj-Napoca and Craiova and he was subsequently heard at the Komische Oper Berlin, before he became an ensemble member at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 2014/15. His repertoire includes the Mozart parts Figaro (‘Le nozze di Figaro’), Leporello (‘Don Giovanni’) and Sarastro (‘Die Zauberflöte’), Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Raimondo (‘Lucia di Lammermoor’) and Talbot (‘Maria Stuarda’), Alidoro (Rossini ‘La Cenerentola’), Verdi’s Ferrando (‘Il trovatore’), Banco (‘Macbeth’), Marquis d’Obigny (‘La traviata’), Il Re (‘Aida’) and Filippo II (‘Don Carlo’), Sir Giorgio (Bellini ‘I puritani’), Hermann / Schlemihl (Offenbach ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann’), Frère Laurent (Gounod ‘Roméo et Juliette’), Fasolt (Wagner ‘Das Rheingold’), Colline and Schaunard (Puccini ‘La Bohème’), Truffaldino (Strauss ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’), Herold (Prokofiev ‘The Love of Three Oranges’), Count Bojazovich (Kálmán ‘Die Herzogin von Chicago’), The Wanderer Barnabas (Vacek ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’) and the Monk (Schreier ‘Schade, dass sie eine Hure war’).