BIOGRAPHY
"...the spacefilling singing of Tijl Faveyts as Fasolt was impressive, dressed as soldier, he provided excitement with his powerfull thrilling bass voice..." S. Barnstorf, Opernglas
Belgian bass Tijl Faveyts first gained international recognition at the age of 26, when he appeared as Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Since then, he has established himself on leading international stages, performing most recently as Gurnemanz (Parsifal) at the Wagner Days Budapest, Hunding (Die Walküre) at the Oper Köln and Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande) at the Oper Bergen.
Tijl Faveyts was a member of the ensembles at Theater St. Gallen, the Aalto-Theater Essen and the Komische Oper Berlin, where he built an extensive and diverse repertoire. His roles there included Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), König Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Landgraf Herman (Tannhäuser), Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Ramfis (Aida), Oroveso (Norma), Hunding (Die Walküre), the Doctor (Wozzeck), Ferrando (Il trovatore), Gremin (Eugene Onegin), and Comte des Grieux (Manon), among many others. In january 2027 he joins the ensemble of the Oper Köln.
Guest engagements have taken him to many of the world’s foremost opera houses and festivals, including the Bayerische Staatsoper München, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Semperoper Dresden, Oper Leipzig, Bayreuther Festspiele, Edinburgh Festival, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Oper Bonn, Vlaamse Opera, Théâtre de la Monnaie Brussels, Opéra de Lille, Gärtnerplatztheater München, Wiener Festwochen, Theater an der Wien, ABAO Bilbao, Teatro Cervantes Málaga, Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Teatro Comunale di Modena and Reggio Emilia, Lincoln Center New York, NCPA Beijing, and the Israeli Opera Tel Aviv.
Faveyts has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Giacomo Sagripanti, Kazushi Ono, Fabio Luisi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Christian Thielemann, Carlo Rizzi, Kent Nagano, Daniel Harding, Antonino Fogliani, Frank Beermann, Marc Albrecht, Daniele Gatti, Axel Kober, Alain Altinoglu and Pablo Heras-Casado, and with leading stage directors including Mariame Clément, Barrie Kosky, Frank Castorf, Tatjana Gürbaca, Vincent Boussard, and Stefan Herheim.
As a concert artist, he appears regularly at major venues including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, Philharmonie Cologne and Berlin, Concertgebouw Bruges, and Concertgebouw Amsterdam. His concert repertoire spans from the great oratorios of Bach through Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn, to works of the 20th century.
Upcoming engagements include Commendatore (Don Giovanni) at the Aalto-Theater in Essen, Kezal (Die Verkaufte Braut) and Vodnik (Rusalka) at the Oper Köln, and his return to the Bayreuther Festspiele.
