Biography

The Croatian baritone has been part of the ensemble at Opera Cologne for a long period of time and remains connected with the house through regular cooperation.
Having achieved his singing degree with honors studying in Graz with Prof. Wolfgang Gamerith, he continued his studies in Lied and Oratorio. He completed them with Prof. Hans Sotin at Musikhochschule Cologne and in master classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, among others.

Miljenko Turk was awarded in several international singing competitions and has a wide-ranged concert repertoire. He was a guest several times with the Cologne Philharmonic, at Munich’s Gasteig, Bamberg, at Schlossfestspiele Ludwigsburg, and at the Düsseldorf Tonhalle.
At Opera Cologne he sang Papageno, Dandini, Silvio, Malatesta, Marcello, Guglielmo, Wildschütz-Graf, Sharpless, Donner, and with great success Billy Budd, Wolfram, Harlekin, and Jakob Lenz to name the latest.

He has been a guest at Festspiele Bayreuth, Salzburger Festspiele, Styriarte Festival Graz, Garsington Festival, and Ludwigsburger Festspiele as well as in Dresden, Stuttgart, and Vienna where he was celebrated for his Graf von Luxemburg, Papageno, Barber of Seville, and Dr. Falke.

His recent opera projects included Don Giovanni (Rostock), Guglielmo/Cosi fan tutte and Ottokar/Der Freischütz (Cologne), Freddy/My fair Lady (Muscat in Oman), Benvenuto Cellini and Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Dresden / Staatsoperette).
Recent concert engagements led him throughout Europe on a tour with the NDR-Orchestra under the baton of Thomas Hengelbrock (Paris, Hamburg), with the Radio Philharmonic Orkest under Markus Stenz (Amsterdam), a tour with the NWD Philharmonic under Andrew Grams, and Melot/Tristan and Isolde in concert with the Tonhalle Orchestra Düsseldorf. Recent projects at his parent house, Opera Cologne, included the new productions Carmen and Berlioz‘ Béatrice et Bénédict/Claudio under the baton of Francois-Xavier Roth, John/ La bête dans la jungle, Marcello/La Bohème, Dr Falke/Die Fledermaus, as well as Graf Gustav von Pottenstein in Das Land des Lächelns (concert version) under Stefan Soltesz.

At the beginning of 2016, Miljenko Turk made his debut at the Opéra national de Paris in the new production by Stefan Herheim of Wagners‘ Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Also, he debuted as
Fieramosca in Berlioz’ Benvenuto Cellini and sang in Rihm’s Die Eroberung von Mexiko at Opera Cologne, as well as in Rihm’s Deus Passus at the Tivoli in Utrecht under the baton of Markus Stenz.
Miljenko Turk celebrates frequent successes in the Liedfach and is also able to accompany himself at the piano.

In the 23/24 season, Turk remains loyal to the Cologne Opera, where he can be seen and heard as Valentin in Gounod’s Faust under F.-X. Roth, as Graf Danilo Danilowitsch in Die lustige Witwe, Peter in Hansel and Gretel, and in the world premiere “The Strangers” by Frank Pesci. In addition, he can be heard as Papageno/Magic Flute in Zagreb and in the semi-staged version of Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten with the Gürzenich-Orchester under F.-X. Roth (staging Calixto Bieito) in Cologne, Hamburg
and Paris.
Furthermore, Turk will perform the role of Melot/Tristan und Isolde at Palermo’s Teatro Massimo under the baton of Omer Meir Wellber.

Management

Worldwide non-exclusive

Artist Manager
 
 
 
 
Boris Orlob
Managing Director
boris@orlob.net 
Mobil: +49-172-8 51 55 14
 
 
 
 
Natascha van Randenborgh
Associate Director
natascha@orlob.net 
Mobil: +49-173-7 76 88 20

Repertoire

Repertoire Concert

Beethoven Symphony no. 9
Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem
Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Rasch, Torsten Orchesterlied (UA)
Rihm Deus Passus
  Symphony no. 3
 

Repertoire Opera

Beneš The Players Hamlet
Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini Fieramosca
Bernstein Candide Maximilian
Bizet Carmen Dancaïro
    Moralès
Britten Billy Budd 2nd mate
    Billy Budd
  The Rape of Lucretia Tarquinius
Cherubini Les deux journées Sémos
Donizetti Don Pasquale Dr. Malatesta
  L'elisir d'amore Belcore
Eötvös Love and Other Demons Father Cayetano Delaura
Glanert Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung Herr von Wernthal
Halevy La Juive Albert
Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel Father
Kálmán Die Csárdásfürstin Edwin
Korngold Die tote Stadt Fritz
Krenek Das geheime Königreich Narr
  Jonny spielt auf Daniello
Künneke Lady Hamilton Lord Percy Harwich
Lehár The Count of Luxembourg René
Leoncavallo Pagliacci Silvio
Loewe My Fair Lady Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Lortzing Der Wildschütz Graf von Eberbach
Martinu Ariane Thésée
Massenet Don Quichotte Juan
Méhul L'irato Scapin
Menotti The Telephone Ben
Monteverdi Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria Eumete
  L'Orfeo Apollon
Mozart Così fan tutte Guglielmo
  Die Zauberflöte Papageno
  Don Giovanni Don Giovanni
  La finta giardiniera Nardo
  La finta semplice Don Cassandro
    Simone
  L'oca del Cairo Don Pippo
Orff Carmina Burana Bariton
Prokofiev The Love for Three Oranges Pantalon
  War and Peace Napoleon
Poulenc Dialogues des Carmélites Zivilbeamter
  Les mamelles de Tirésias Der Gatte
Puccini La Bohème Marcello
    Schaunard
  Tosca Sciarrone
  Turandot Ping
Rihm Die Eroberung von Mexico Cortez
  Jakob Lenz Lenz
Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia Figaro
  La Cenerentola Dandini
  Le comte Ory Raimbaud
  L'italiana in Algeri Haly
Ruzicka Celan C 2
Schreker Die Gezeichneten Gonsalvo Fieschi
    Vater
Staud Die Antilope Victor
Strauss, J. Die Fledermaus Dr. Falke
Strauss, R. Ariadne auf Naxos Harlekin
  Capriccio Olivier
Verdi Attila Ezio
  Il trovatore Luna
  La battaglia di Legnano Rolando
  Rigoletto Marullo
Wagner Die Meistersinger v. Nürnberg Hermann Ortel
  Lohengrin 3. Edler
  Parsifal 4. Knappe
  Ring des Nibelungen Donner
Weber Der Freischütz Kilian
    Ottokar
Weill Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny Bill
Zeller Der Vogelhändler Baron Weps

News

Impressionistic dystopia in Cologne, Hamburg and Paris
The audience can expect an extremely interesting and extraordinary evening when the renowned Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and a large ensemble of soloists bring Bernd Alois Zimmermann's dystopian music theatre work "Die Soldaten" into the concert hall!
In co-operation with the Cologne Opera and the director Calixto Bieito, a concept was developed which, according to the director himself, is to be seen more as an "installation" than a staging in the conventional sense.

Under the musical direction of General Music Director François-Xavier Roth and with Tómas Tómasson (Wesener), Alexandra Ionis (Stolzius' mother) and Miljenko Turk (Haudy) as part of the ensemble, among others, the extraordinary production can first be experienced on 18 January 2024 in the Cologne Philharmonie, followed by performances in the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie (21 January) and the Philharmonie de Paris (28 January)
 
More information about the production:
www.guerzenich-orchester.de/... 

Press

 

Die Antilope / Oper Köln / 07.03.17 / deropernfreund.de


"hervorragend gemeistert" 

Die Antilope / Oper Köln / 05.03.17 / der-neue-merker.eu


"wieder einmal überragend" 

Die Antilope / Oper Köln / 30.10.16 / omm.de


"mit einer schönen Mischung Komik und Eleganz" 

Der Vogelhändler / Oper Köln / 17.12.16 / omm.de


"elegant von Stimme und Auftreten" 

Jakob Lenz / Oper Köln / 22.03.14 / concerti.de


"ein faszinierender Lenz" 

Jakob Lenz / Oper Köln / 22.03.14 / deropernfreund.de


"nichts weniger als ereignishaft" 
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