Sami Luttinen

Soloist
Born in Finland, bass Sami Luttinen studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Before becoming an ensemble member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 1997, he was employed at the Theater Kiel from 1995. In 2000 he made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and in 2006 at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Throughout Europe he has worked with conductors such as Roger Norrington, Jirí Kout and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. He has appeared at various festivals and is a regular guest at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the Finnish National Opera. His extensive repertoire includes roles such as Raimondo (Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor"), Banco (Verdi's "Macbeth"), Philip II and Grand Inquisitor (Verdi's "Don Carlo"), Ramfis (Verdi's "Aida") as well as the Mozart roles of the Commendatore ("Don Giovanni"), Sarastro ("The Magic Flute") and Bartolo ("Le nozze di Figaro"). The Wagner roles of Daland ("Der fliegende Holländer"), Fasolt and Fafner ("Das Rheingold"), Hunding ("Die Walküre"), Hagen ("Götterdämmerung") and Gurnemanz ("Parsifal") are also part of his repertoire, as well as Gremin (Tchaikovsky "Eugene Onegin"), John Claggart (Britten "Billy Budd"), General Polkan (Rimsky-Korsakov "The Golden Cockerel"), Count Waldner (R. Strauss "Arabella"), Faust (Prokofiev "The Fiery Angel"), Sawjol Prokofievich Dikoj (Janáček "Katja Kabanova") and Kadmos (Henze "The Bassarids"), among others.
At Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Sami Luttinen was also recently heard as Timur (Puccini "Turandot") and Thibaut d'Arc (Tchaikovsky "Die Jungfrau von Orléans"), as Robert in Wittenbrink's "Comedian Harmonists - Best of"), Gremin, Dorfrichter in Janáček's "Jenůfa" and Basilio in Rossini's "Il barbiere di Siviglia". In the 2024/25 season, he will also be back as Fafner in "Das Rheingold" and in Peter Maxwell Davis' opera "The Lighthouse" as Arthur/ 3rd officer.

www.samiluttinenbass.com
Tue 02.06.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf – Foyer
18:00 - 18:45
Opera Workshop Opera
Free entry
Sun 07.06.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
18:30 - 20:15
Revival Opera
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Sonntags-Abo
Sat 13.06.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 21:15
Opera
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Samstags-Abo 1
Sun 21.06.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
15:00 - 16:45
Opera
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Sonntagnachmittags-Abo 2
Wed 01.07.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 21:15
For the last time this season Opera
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Mittwochs-Abo
Sun 01.03.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
18:30 - 22:00
Revival Opera
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Wechselnde Wochentage-Abo 1
Sat 21.03.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:00 - 22:30
Opera
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Sun 24.05.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
18:30 - 22:00
For the last time this season Opera
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Wed 14.01.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 22:00
Opera
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Mittwochs-Abo
Sun 01.02.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
18:30 - 21:00
Opera
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Sun 15.02.2026
Theater Duisburg
18:30 - 21:00
Revival Opera
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Klassik Abo, Wechselnde Wochentage-Abo E
Fri 23.05.2025
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 22:15
Opera
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Sat 31.05.2025
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 22:15
Summer in the City Opera
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Sun 21.12.2025
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
18:30 - 21:15
Opera
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Sat 03.01.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 22:15
Opera
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Thu 22.01.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 22:15
Opera
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Wechselnde Wochentage-Abo 4
Tue 02.12.2025
Opernhaus Düsseldorf – Foyer
18:00 - 18:45
Opera Workshop Opera
Free entry
Sun 07.12.2025
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
18:30 - 20:10
Premiere Opera
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Premieren-Abo Düsseldorf, Premieren-Abo Plus
Fri 12.12.2025
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 21:10
Opera
Afterwards: Nachgefragt
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Neuproduktionen-Abo
Sun 28.12.2025
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
18:30 - 20:10
Opera
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Wechselnde Wochentage-Abo 4
Wed 07.01.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 21:10
Opera
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Wechselnde Wochentage-Abo 1
Sun 25.01.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
15:00 - 16:40
Opera
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Sonntagnachmittags-Abo 2
Sun 08.02.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
18:30 - 20:10
For the last time this season Opera
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Sonntags-Abo
Fri 28.11.2025
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 20:45
Revival Opera, Concert
Fri 20.03.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 20:45
Opera, Concert
Fri 17.04.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 20:45
Opera, Concert
Thu 21.05.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 20:45
For the last time this season Opera, Concert

Festliche Operngala

on the farewell of Christoph Meyer
Sat 05.07.2025
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 22:30
Gala, Concert
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Fri 19.06.2026
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:00 - 21:30
Gala, Concert