The Australian-born tenor, Adrian Strooper, began his career as a soloist after winning numerous singing competitions in Australia, which took him to America and Europe. He joined the Opernstudio at the Cologne Opera and was a member of the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festspiel. In 2006 he began his permanent contract at the Komische Oper Berlin, where he was resident tenor and performed the roles of Lenski, Don Ottavio, and Tamino, which he toured extensively, performing in theatres such as Liceu Barcelona, Opéra Comique Paris, Grand Theatre Shanghai and Bolshoi Theatre Moscow. In the 2017 Adelaide Festival, he debuted the role of Jonathan in Barrie Kosky’s Glyndebourne production of Handel's SAUL. Other roles in Strooper’s repertoire include Belmonte, Ernesto, Ferrando, Lysander, Rinuccio, Jupiter, Brighella and der junge Graf in Die Soldaten. He has performed at the Semperoper Dresden, Oper Leipzig, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Theater Bremen, Toulon Opera, New Zealand Opera and with Opera Australia. His concert repertoire includes the works of Haydn, Handel, Beethoven and Mendelssohn and he has sung with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Noord Nederlandse Orchestra and Latvijas Concerti in Riga. He has also performed at Innsbruck Festspiel der Alte Musik, Salzburg Festspiel and Festival d’Aix en Provence. We hear him here as Rinuccio in Puccini's GIANNI SCHICCHI at the Komische Oper in Berlin on March 15th 2015. The conductor is Henrik Nanasi.
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