Tareq Nazmi
Bass Tareq Nazmi was born in Kuwait and grew up in Germany, where he studied singing with Edith Wiens and Christian Gerhaher at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich. His first experience was also in Munich, at the opera studio of the Bayerische Staatsoper, and he later joined the permanent ensemble.
His recent roles include Banco in Verdi’s Macbeth, Sarastro in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Ferrando in Verdi’s Il trovatore and Gurnemanz in Wagner’s Parsifal.
His Concertgebouw debut was in 2017 in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, conducted by Markus Stenz. As a concert singer he has appeared in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. He performed with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2019, singing Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethes Faust, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. Nazmi is also an enthusiastic er singer.