Marcel Beekman

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Biography
Described by Süddeutsche Zeitung as “the master singer who achieves miracles,” Dutch tenor Marcel Beekman is internationally acclaimed for his interpretations of operatic character roles and his versatility across early, contemporary, and avant-garde repertoire. For his portrayal of Platée in Rameau’s Platée at States Opera Prague, he is nominated as Best Men’s Performance for the Cenie Thálie 2025.

In the 2025/26 season, Marcel Beekman opens with the role of Atrea in Cavalli’s Pompeo Magno at the Bayreuth Baroque Festival, followed by semi-staged concert performances with Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón in Geneva, Paris, and Vienna. He will create the roles of Mouse, Pat, Cook, Dormouse, Invisible Man and Juror: Mole in a new production of Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland at Theater an der Wien, sing in the world premiere of a new opera by Calliope Tsoupaki at the Opera Forward Festival in Amsterdam, and concludes the season returning to Opéra national de Paris as Licco in Antonia Bembo’s Ercole Amante.

Recent highlights include Falsacappa (Les Brigands, Opéra national de Paris), Don Curzio (Le Nozze di Figaro, Staatsoper Berlin), the title role in Platée (Opera Prague, Staatsoper Stuttgart), Iro/Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence), Comte Hauk-Sendorf/Věc Makropulos (Opéra de Lyon), and roles in world premieres such as Teufel in David Lang’s Dora (Oper Stuttgart) and Mr. Jones in Alexander Raskatov’s Animal Farm (Dutch National Opera). Beekman is also celebrated for his portrayals in Monteverdi’s Poppea (Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, Nederlands Reisopera), Offenbach’s Barkouf (Oper Zürich) and Hoffmann’s fantastical alter egos in Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Palau de les Arts Valencia).

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