After Florian Sempey at Covent Garden, another baritone will have two productions of La Bohème and Die Zauberflöte. This time, the Turkish baritone Levent Bakirci will be Marcello (from 29 to 31 october 2017) and Papageno (from 1 december to 23 january 2018) at Staatstheater Nürnberg.
Levent Bakirci is scheduled to make his debuts at the Teatro Municipal Santiago as Don Giovanni this season.
He is a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater Nürnberg where he made his debut in 2016/2017 as Taddeo in L'Italiana in Algeri, Donner in Das Rheingold and Andrey Shchelkalov in Boris Godunov. Other roles in Nürnberg for the season 2015/2016 included Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles, the title role of Don Giovanni , Marcello in La Bohème, Il conte d'Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Escamillo in Carmen, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus.
Recently Levent Bakirci made his debut at Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa as Captain Ahap in Moby Dick and with Münchner Rundfunk Orchester as Mercutio in Romeo et Juliette under the baton of Keri Lynn Wilson and at the Theatre du Capitole Toulouse for the title-role of Luigi Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero .
Staatstheater Nürnberg
La Bohème (Marcello) - from 29 to 31 october 2017
Die Zauberflöte (Papageno) - from 1 décember au 23 january 2018
