Erik van Heyningen
baritone
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Erik van Heyningen joined the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in the 2022/23 season, during which he sang Angelotti in Tosca, the Speaker, Guido and Jupiter's Priest in new productions of Die Zauberflöte, Mercadante’s Francesca da Rimini and Handel's Hercules, and the Forester in The Cunning Little Vixen. He sang Guido in Francesca da Rimini at the 2022 Tirol Festival in Erl. During the 2024/25 season he adds new roles to his repertoire, including Melisso an the Grandfather / Old Man / Aglovale in new productions of Handel's Alcina and Reimann's L'invisible, Capellio in Rossini's Bianca e Felliero and Monterone in Rigoletto. Last season he sang 1st Shepherd in our unforgettable production of Daphne, Plumkett in Flotow's Martha, Zuniga in Carmen, Biterolf in a new production of Tannhäuser and Elmiro Barberigo in Rossini's Otello. He was a member of the Vienna State Opera's Opera Studio from 2020 - 2022, where roles included Jochanaan (Salome), Donner (Das Rheingold) and 1st Gang Member (Henze's Verratene Meer). Roles at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis included the Gaoler (Dialogue of the Carmélites) and he sang Angelotti at Michigan Opera, where he was a member of the Opera Studio for the 2017/18 season. Whilst studying at the Juillard School in New York (2018-2020) his roles included Leporello (Don Giovanni), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and Aragante (Rinaldo) and he sang Jochanaan (Salome) at the Spoleto Festival. He has won many awards and the Barbara and Stanley Richman Memorial Award from the Theater of St. Louis, where he was a Richard Gaddes Festival Artist. He won Santa Fe Opera's Donald Gramm Memorial Award and 1st prize at the 2016 Gerda Lissner Lieder and Song Competition.