Günes Gürle

Born in Izmir, the bass baritone Günes Gürle has been a member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein ensemble since the 2005/06 season. Before that he had caused a sensation at the Istanbul State Opera as Don Giovanni (Mozart). For his Pollux (Rameau ‘Castor et Pollux’) at Opernhaus Düsseldorf he was named “Best Male Opera Singer 2013”. His repertoire includes the Mozart parts Figaro and Bartolo (‘Le nozze di Figaro’), Giovanni and Leporello (‘Don Giovanni’), Don Alfonso (‘Così fan tutte’) and Osmin (‘Die Entführung aus dem Serail’), the Verdi roles Sparafucile (‘Rigoletto’) and Ferrando (‘Il trovatore’), Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Sulpice (‘La fille du Regiment’) and Dulcamara (‘L’elisir d’amore’), Rossini’s Don Basilio (‘Il barbiere di Siviglia’), Don Magnifico (‘La Cenerentola’), Prince Selim (‘Il turco in Italia’), Bellini’s Oroveso (‘Norma’) and Lord Gualtiero Valton (‘I puritani’), Puccini’s Colline (‘La Bohème’) and Timur (‘Turandot’), Massenet’s Sancho (‘Don Quichotte’), Swallow (Britten ‘Peter Grimes’), Giulio Cesare (Handel), Capulet (Blacher ‘Romeo und Julia’), Panthée and Narbal (Berlioz ‘Les Troyens’).
Guest engagements have taken him to Oslo, Treviso, Strasbourg, to the Vlaamse Opera, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Wiener Festwochen, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, to the Theater an der Wien, the Opera de Versailles and the Munich Radio Orchestra.

Homepage: www.gunesgurle.com