Biography

Finnish bass-baritone, Tuomas Pursio, studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki before continuing his studies at the International Opera Studio in Zurich. His teachers include Jukka Rasilainen, Laszlo Polgar, Tom Krause, and Elisabeth Werres.

Following permanent engagements in Düsseldorf and Erfurt, Pursio remains a member of ensemble at the Opera Leipzig since 2002/03. At this house he performed as, among others, Wotan/Das Rheingold, Alberich/Siegfried and Gunther/Götterdämmerung, Amfortas/Parsifal, Scarpia/Tosca, Jochanaan/Salome, Orest/Elektra, Kaspar/Der Freischütz, Mephisto/Faust, and Vodník/Rusalka. Furthermore, he made his role debut in the title role of Bluebeard’s Castle. 

Tuomas Pursio worked with conductors such as Christian Thielemann, Riccardo Chailly, Philippe Jordan, Marek Janowski, Juraj Valčuha,  Riccardo Frizza, John Fiore, Nello Santi, Adam Fischer, Ralf Weikert, Ulf Schirmer, Axel Kober, Osmo Vänskä, Sebastian Weigle, Marc Albrecht and Marcello Viotti.

Guest performances led him, among others, to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, the State Operas in Stuttgart, Hannover, Wiesbaden and Nürnberg, Zurich Opera, Hungarian State Opera Budapest, Teatro Communale di Bologna, Antwerp’s Opera, Finnish National Opera Helsinki, Opéra de Lausanne, Opéra de Nice as well as to the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the Festival Auvers-sur-Oise. There he took on the roles of Escamillo/Carmen, Musiklehrer/Ariadne auf Naxos, Don Giovanni/Don Giovanni, Kaspar/Der Freischütz, Orest/Elektra, Amfortas/Parsifal, Förster/Das schlaue Füchslein, Don Alfonso/Cosi fan tutte, Nick Shadow/The Rake’s Progress, Scarpia/Tosca, Wotan/Das Rheingold, Telramund/Lohengrin, as well as the Villains in Les Contes d‘Hoffmann.

Recent highlights include Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber/The King at Deutsche Oper Berlin (Loy/Albrecht), Donner/Das Rheingold under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gunther/Götterdämmerung, Scarpia/Tosca and the title role of Don Giovanni at the Finnish National Opera Helsinki, Mephisto/Faust on the occasion of the Savonlinna Opera Festival, Jochanaan/Salome at Landestheater Linz and at Teatro Communale di Bologna, as well as Friedrich/Das Liebesverbot and Raimondo/Rienzi as part of the guest performances of the Oper Leipzig in Bayreuth.
Most recently he could be seen and heard as Henrik/Father in law in the much acclaimed world premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s opera Innocence at the Festival Aix-en-Provence and in the revival at the Finnish National Opera.

His concert repertoire ranges from Haydn and Beethoven over Verdi and Mahler up to contemporary Finnish composers. Furthermore, he sang Verdi’s Requiem in Leipzig and a highly acclaimed concert series together with Marek Janowski and the Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin.

In season 2024/25, in addition to prominent roles at his parent house in Leipzig, Tuomas Pursio will return to the Finnish National Opera for the new productions Salome/Jochanaan and “Pohjalaisia”(Leevi Madetoja).
Furthermore he can be seen and heard as Father-in-law in Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence at the Adelaide Festival, as well as Créon in Enescu’s Oedipe at the Bregenz Festival.

His CD-recordings include Schumann’s Manfred with Mario Venzago, Un Ballo in Maschera with Riccardo Chailly, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with Marek Janowski.

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Don Giovanni (Stream) / Finnish National Opera Helsinki / 10.06.20 / forumopera
 

"Tuomas Pursio réussit l’exploit de le chanter avec aisance, avec la fébrilité attendue, impatiente." 

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