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He has performed the great German, French and Italian baroque repertoire all over Europe, the United States, Middle East, South Africa and Japan in major concert venues and festivals with conductors such as William Christie, Frans Brüggen, Leonardo Garcia Alarcón, Christophe Rousset, Richard Egarr and Reinhard Goebel. He has appeared in repertoire of later centuries with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Daniele Gatti, Sir Mark Elder, Iván Fischer, Claus Peter Flor, Steven Sloane and Ed Spanjaard and with orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, ASKO|Schönberg and Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi.
Mr. Beekman is also known for his outstanding ability in avant-garde repertoire. He has worked extensively with conductors such as Reinbert de Leeuw, Sylvain Cambreling, John Adams, Marc Albrecht, Avner Biron and Jonathan Stockhammer in works by Igor Stravinsky, Alban Berg, Benjamin Britten, Nicolas Obouchov, Pascal Dusapin, Mauricio Kagel, Witold Lutoslawski, Gottfried von Einem and György Kurtág. He has premiered numerous works that have been specially composed for him: Calliope Tsoupaki, Martijn Padding, Roderik de Man, Micha Hamel, Elmer Schönberger, Jacques Bank, António Chagas Rosa and Jeff Hamburg as well as Reza Namavar, Joost Kleppe, Anke Brouwer, Bart Visman and Matthias Kadar.
His operatic repertoire includes the title roles in Orfeo by Monteverdi and Rameau’s Platée and Pygmalion, Andrès/Cochenille/Frantz/Pittichinaccio in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Aristée and Pluto/Orphée aux enfers, Berenice/L’Ipermestra, Valère, Damon, Don Carlos/Les Indes Galantes, Maître de Musique and Maître de Chant/Les Fêtes , Arnalta and Nutrice/L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Eumete/Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Lope/Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena, Basilio and Don Curzio/Le Nozze di Figaro, Tanzmeister/Ariadne auf Naxos, Prince Nilski/Igrok by Prokofiev, Adrian/Der Sturm by Martin, Mime/Das Rheingold and Siegfried, Hauptmann and Narr/Wozzeck, Pégase, Sénéchal and Prêtre/L’écume des jours by Denisov (International Diaghilev Award 2013), the title role in Jonah the Naysayer, Arthur Rimbaud/Nuit de l’enfer, Zamar/Legende and Pope Innocenzo XI in Theatre of the World by Louis Andriessen.
Marcel Beekman has appeared at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Salzburger Osterfestspiele and Salzburger Festspiele, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Theater an der Wien, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Opéra Comique in Paris, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Opéra de Dijon, Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Bregenzer Festspiele, Holland Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall New York in productions by directors such as Robert Carsen, Pierre Audi, Barrie Kosky, Ivo van Hove, Claus Guth, Stefan Herheim, Tatjana Gürbaca, Hal Hartley, Nicola Raab, Katie Mitchell and Krzysztof Warlikowski.
His extensive discography includes Theatre of the World with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (Nonesuch), nominated at the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2018 and De Nationale Opera‘s 2017 production of Wozzeck, staged by Krzysztof Warlikowski (Naxos). His widely celebrated performance of Platée in Robert Carsen’s acclaimed production for Theater an der Wien, conducted by William Christie, will be released on DVD by Unitel in August 2021.
Highlights in the season 2022/23 include house debuts in the lead role of Bababeck in Offenbach’s Barkouf at Operhaus Zurich and as Nutrice/L’incoronazione di Poppea at Gran Teatro del Liceu, returns to De Nationale Opera Amsterdam as Mr Jones in the world premiere of Alexander Raskatov’s Animal Farm, to Oper Stuttgart in the title role of Platée and to Versailles for the revival of La Finta Pazza together with Capella Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón. He will also sing Goro in Schumann’s Genoveva with Helsinki Baroque in Helskini, Düsseldorf and Dresden.
Opera
Composer | Work | Role |
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Andriessen | La commedia (2008) | Casella |
Andriessen | Theatre of the World | Pope Innocenzo XI |
Berg | Wozzek | Hauptmann, Narr |
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz von | Arminio [Chi la dura la vince] | Germanico |
Breuker | Jonah the Naysayer | Jonah |
Campra | Les Fêtes Vénitiennes | Maître de Musique, Maître de Chant |
Cavalli | L’Ipermestra | Berenice |
Conti | Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena | Lope |
Dallapiccola | Il Prigioniero | Primo Sacerdote |
de Man | Nuit de l’enfer | Arthur Rimbaud |
Denisov | L’écume des jours | Pégase, Sénéchal, Prêtre |
Gagliano | La Dafne | |
Händel | Acis und Galathea | |
Henze | Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1981), new orchestration after C. Monteverdi | Eurimaco, Eumete |
Janacek | Kat'a Kabanova | Tichon Ivanyc Kabanov |
Martin | Der Sturm (1952/1955) | Adrian |
Martin | Le vin herbé | Tristan |
Monteverdi | Orfeo | Orfeo |
Monteverdi | L'Incoronazione di Poppea | Arnalta, Nutrice |
Monteverdi | Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria | Eumete |
Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Pedrillo |
Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | Basilio, Don Curzio |
Mozart | Bastien und Bastienne | Bastien |
Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Pedrillo |
Mozart | Jener Donnerworte Kraft, from "Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots" KV 35 | |
Mozart | Zaide | Sultan Soliman |
Neuwirth | Bählamms Fest | Robert |
Offenbach | Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Andrès, Frantz, Cochenille, Pittichinaccio |
Offenbach | Barkouf | Bababeck |
Offenbach | Orphée aux enfers | Aristée, Pluto |
Pashkevich, Vasiliy | Skupoy | Skrjagin |
Prokoffief | Igrok | Prince Nilski |
Rameau | Platée | Platée |
Rameau | Pygmalion | Pygmalion |
Rameau | Les Indes Galantes | Valère, Damon, Don Carlos |
Raskatov | Animal Farm | Mr Jones |
Sacrati | La Finta Pazza | Nutrice |
Schumann | Genoveva | Golo |
Strauss | Ariadne auf Naxos | Tanzmeister |
Tchaikovsky | Eugen Onegin | Triquet |
Wagemans | Legende | Zamar |
Wagner | Das Rheingold | Mime |
Wagner | Siegfried | Mime |
Concert
Composer | Work | |
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Abazis, Theo | Rainbow for Rimbaud | |
Almeida | Te Deum | |
Altena, Marten | Up and Up/ Down and Out (2010) | |
Andriessen | De laatste daag | |
Andriessen | De materie | |
Arends, André | Voices | |
Bach, C.Ph.E. | Motetten | |
Bach, C.Ph.E. | Alte und Neue Litanei | |
Bach, Georg Christoph | Siehe, wie fein und lieblich ist's | |
Bach, Heinrich | Ach, dass ich Wassers genug hätte | |
Bach, Johann Christian | Magnificat | |
Bach, Johann Nicolaus | Der jenaische Wein - und Bierrufer | |
Bach, Johann Sebastian | Cantatas | |
Bach, Johann Sebastian | Hohe Messe | |
Bach, Johann Sebastian | Johannes Passion | |
Bach, Johann Sebastian | Lutheran Masses | |
Bach, Johann Sebastian | Magnificat | |
Bach, Johann Sebastian | Matthäus Passion | |
Bach, Johann Sebastian | Weihnachtsoratorium | |
Bank, Jacques | Blind boy fuller | |
Bank, Jacques | Een taaie winter | |
Bank, Jacques | Eindelijk aangekommen | |
Bank, Jacques | John Clare | |
Bank, Jacques | Uiteindelijke dingen | |
Bank, Jacques | Van de dichter en de griffier | |
Barbarino | O sacrum convivum | |
Barbe, Helmut | Canticum Simeonis | |
Beethoven | Fantasie, op.80 | |
Beethoven | Symphony no 9, op 125 | |
Beurden, Bernard van | Boulevard des misères | |
Britten | Cantata Misericordium, op. 69 | |
Britten | Nocturne, op. 60 | |
Britten | Saint Nicholas, op. 42 | |
Britten | Serenade, op. 31 | |
Britten | Spring Symphony, op. 44 | |
Brouwer, Anke | Wakker (2008) | |
Bruckner | Requiem d-Moll | |
Bruinen, Paul | Kwaad bloed | |
Buxtehude | Cantatas | |
Buxtehude | Membra Jesu Nostri | |
Carissimi | Jephte | |
Cavalieri | Lamentationes del S. Emilio de Cavalieri | |
Charpentier | Antiennes à la Vierge | |
Charpentier | Magnificat | |
Charpentier | Méditations pour le Carême | |
Charpentier | Messe de minuit | |
Charpentier | Salve Regina | |
Charpentier | Te Deum | |
Danielis | Caeleste Convivium | |
d'Astorga, Emanuele | Stabat Mater | |
Davies, Peter Maxwell | Job | |
Delius | To be sung of a summer night on the water | |
Distler | Choralpassion | |
Distler | Die Weihnachtsgeschichte | |
Doorn, Frans van | Cantico de la creature | |
Dusapin | La Melancholia | |
Erlebach | Mein Herz ist bereit | |
Escher, Rudolf | Nostalgies | |
Escher, Rudolf | Univers de Rimbaud | |
Fairuz | Zabur | |
Fesch, Willem de | Missa Paschalis | |
Fesch, Willem de | Missa Paschalis | |
Finzi | Dies Natalis | |
Fischer, Johann | Himmlische Seelenlust | |
Fux | Santa Dimpna, Infantana'Irlanda | Gerberno |
Gebel | Johannes Passion: Der leidende, sterbende und begrabene Jesus | |
Gounod | Messe Sollenelle | |
Graaf, Christian Ernst | Der Tod Jesu | |
Graun | Der Tod Jesu | |
Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la | L'Isle de Déloa | |
Hamburg, Jeff | Hebräische Melodien | |
Hamburg, Jeff | Hooglied | |
Hamburg, Jeff | Kumi Ori | |
Hamel, Micha | Requiem, op 36 (2011) | |
Händel | Dettinger Te Deum | |
Händel | Dixit Dominus | |
Händel | Israel in Egypt | |
Händel | Judas Maccabaeus | |
Händel | La Resurrezione HW 47 | |
Händel | Messiah | |
Händel | Ode on St. Cecilia's Day | |
Händel | Saul | |
Händel | Utrecht Te Deum | |
Haydn | Folksongs | |
Haydn | Die Jahreszeiten | |
Haydn | Missa in Angustiis | |
Haydn | Missa in honorem St. Nicolai | |
Haydn | Die Schöpfung | |
Haydn | Stabat Mater | |
Haydn | Theresienmesse | |
Henze | Drei Fragmente nach Hölderlin | |
Henze | Orpheus behind the wire | |
Honegger | Le Roi David | |
Kagel | Mitternachtsstück | |
Kagel | In der Matratzengruft (2007-2008) | |
Keuris, Tristan | L'Infinito | |
Kleppe, Joost | Canções Portuguesas (2010) | |
Kleppe, Joost | Prometeu (2011) | |
Kurtág | What is the word | |
Leoncavallo | Mattinata | |
Lima, Cândido | Começa a haver meia-noite | |
Lima, Cândido | Desfraldando | |
Lima, Cândido | Impressões do Crepúsculo | |
Lima, Cândido | Magnificat | |
Lima, Cândido | Paúis | |
Lima, Cândido | Poemas impressionistas | |
Mahler | Das Lied von der Erde | |
Man, Roderik de | Czar Peter's Creation | |
Man, Roderik de | Nuit de l'Enfer | |
Martinaitis, Algirdas | Musikalisches Opfer | |
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | Die Erste Walpurgisnacht, op. 60 | |
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | Elias | |
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | Psalm 95 | |
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | Symphony no. 2 "Lobgesang" | |
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | Te Deum | |
Mozart | Litaniae de venerabili altaris Sacramento, KV 243 | |
Mozart | Missa in C, KV 257 | |
Mozart | Missa in C "Krönungsmesse", KV 317 | |
Mozart | Missa in C minor, KV 427 | |
Mozart | Missa brevis in B, KV 275 | |
Mozart | Requiem, KV 626 | |
Mozart | Vesprea solennes de confessore, KV 339 | |
Mozart | Vespera solennes de Dominica, KV 321 | |
Namavar, Reza | Heaviness of Heart (2011) | |
Nicolai, Willem | Bonifacius, op. 7 | |
Obouchow | Le Troisième et Dernier Testament | |
Orff | Carmina Burana | |
Pachelbel | Verzag doch nicht, du armer Sünder | |
Puccini | Messa di Gloria |
Lieder
Composer | Work | Role |
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Bach, C.Ph.E. | Geistliche Lieder | |
Bela Bartok | Songs |
J.P. Rameau: Platée (DVD)
Theater an der Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, cond
Robert Carsen, dir
w Jeanine de Bique, Cyril Auvity, Marc Mauillon, Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Emmanuelle de Negri, Emilie Renard et al
Unitel Edition (10655900)More
J.P. Rameau: Platée
Les Arts Florissants, Arnold Schoenberg Chor
William Christie, cond
w Marcel Beekman, Cyril Auvity, Marc Mauillon, Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Emmanuelle de Negri, Emilie Renard et al
harmonia mundi (10710616)More
F. Sacrati : La Finta Pazza
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, cond
w Paul-Antoine Benos-Dijan, Carlo Vistoli, Fiona McGown, Anna Piroli et al
Chateau de Versailles Spectacles (10928152)More
J. Offenbach: Orphee aux Enfers (DVD)
Salzburger Festspiele, Wiener Philharmoniker
Enrique Mazzola, cond
Barrie Kosky, dir
w Joel Prieto, Kathryn Lewek, Max Hopp, Anne Sofie von Otter, Marcel Beekman, Martin Winkler et al
Unitel Edition (9883769)More
C. Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea
William Christie, cond
with Sonya Yoncheva, Kate Lindsey,Tamara Banjesevic, Lea Desandre, Dominique Visse, Alessandro Fisher et al
Les Arts Florissants (9267727)More
F. Cavalli: I'Ipermestra
La Sfera Armoniosa
Mike Fentross, cond
with Elena Monti, Emanuela Galli, Gaele Le Roi, Sergio Foresti, Mark Tucker et al
Challenge (9201701)More
A. Berg: Wozzeck (DVD)
De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Marc Albrecht, cond
Krzysztof Warlikowski, director
with Christopher Maltman, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Frank van Aken et al
Naxos (8750409)More
Calliope Tsoupaki: Lukas-Passion
Nieuw Ensemble
Ed Spanjaard, cond
with Ioannis Arvanitis, Raneen Hanna et al
Etcetera (8576957)More
Beethoven: The Symphonies
Laurens Collegium & Contorij, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Frans Brüggen, cond
with Rebecca Nash, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Michael Tews et al
Glossa (3107492)More
L. Andriessen: La Commedia
Dutch National Opera, Asko|Schönberg
Reinbert de Leeuw, cond
with Claron McFadden, Cristina Zavalloni, Jeroen Willems et al
Nonesuch (7559795900)More
L. Andriessen: Theatre of the World
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Reinbert de Leeuw, cond
with Mattijs van de Woerd, Lindsay Kesselman, Leigh Melrose, Cristina Zavalloni et al
Nonesuch (7559793618)More
J.S.Bach: St John Passion
Cappella Amsterdam & Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen, cond
Markus Schäfer, Thomas Oliemans, Carolyn Sampson, Michael Chance, Peter Kooij et al
Glossa (GCD921113)More
J.S. Bach: Matthäus Passion
Matthäus Passion BWV 244
Netherlands Bach Collegium
Amsterdam Classics 20004

F. Martin: Der Sturm
Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Thierry Fischer, cond
with Robert Holl, Simon O´Neill, Christine Buffle et al
recorded live 2008 at Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam
Hyperion Records (B004S7ZYV6)More
C. Monteverdi: Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
live recording
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale, cond
AYROS/Ayros Live AY-L01
J.Röntgen: Symphony No. 5 in A minor, "Der Schnitter Tod"
Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
David Porcelijn, cond
CPO (7773102)
F. Schubert: Zomerreis
Die schöne Müllerin in het Nederlands hertaald door Jan Rot
Ernst Munneke, piano
Deutsche Grammophon (00289 4428465)

R. Strauss: Salome (CD/DVD)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniele Gatti, cond
Ivo van Hove, director
with Malin Byström, Doris Soffel, Lance Ryan, Evgeny Nikitin, Peter Sonn et al
RCO live (1433701947)More
J.P. Wagemans: Legende
De Nederlandse Opera, the Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera, the Netherlands & Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Reinbert de Leeuw, cond
with Marieke Steenhoek, Caroline Cartens, Corinne Romijn, Helena Rasker, Yves Saelens, Thomas Oliemans, Elzbieta Szmytka, André Morsch, Martijn Cornet, Huub Claessens
Etcetera ( KTC1443)More
"[...] the perfect and versatile Dutch tenor Marcel Beekman, so linked to the Baroque repertoire and all the others, whose direct, transparent and tuned voice like a tuning fork was another of the certain virtues of the long afternoon, by giving life to Andrés, Cochenille, Frantz and Pitichinaccio."