Tomislav Mužek, George Petean, Munich Radio Orchestra and Bavarian Radio Chorus & Ivan Repušić
Biography Tomislav Mužek, George Petean, Munich Radio Orchestra and Bavarian Radio Chorus & Ivan Repušić
Tomislav Mužek
is in demand worldwide for a wide-ranging repertoire of the lyric-dramatic tenor repertoire, which includes Russian, French and Czech roles in addition to a focus on German and Italian works.
With his role debut as Lohengrin at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo in 2015, he consolidated his transition into this repertoire, having previously celebrated success as a lyric tenor. Since then, he has sung roles such as Erik, Stolzing, Max, Rodolfo, Don Carlo, Don José and the Prince in Rusalka, as well as Cavaradossi, Pinkerton and Edgardo.
In the 2024/25 season, he will sing Erik in Der fliegende Holländer, Rodolfo in La bohème and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Semperoper Dresden. He will be heard as Pinkerton also at the Zurich Opera House and as the Prince in Rusalka at the Croatian National Opera in Zagreb. Together with the Spanish National Orchestra under Simone Young, he will perform Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 3 “Song of the Night”, and with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra under Ivan Repušić Boris Papandopulo’s Croatian Mass.
After appearing as Erik at the Bayreuth Festival in the summer of 2023, he sang Max (Der Freischütz) and the title role in Verdi’s Don Carlo at the Semperoper Dresden, the Prince (Rusalka) at the Opéra national de Bordeaux and Stolzing (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) at the Teatro Real in Madrid in the 2023/24 season. On the concert stage, he performed Verdi’s Requiem in Zurich and Puccini’s Missa di Gloria in Munich.
Tomislav Mužek has been closely associated with the Semperoper Dresden since 2005, where he has thrilled audiences in roles such as Rodolfo (La bohème), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), the king’s son (Die Königskinder), Lenski (Eugene Onegin), Florestan (Fidelio), the Prince (Rusalka), Stolzing (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) and Max (Der Freischütz). In September 2023, Tomislav Mužek was awarded the “Rudi Häussler Prize” by the Semperoper Foundation.
As a guest artist, Tomislav Mužek has appeared on almost all major European stages, such as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Opéra national de Paris, Hamburg State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Vienna State Opera, Volksoper Vienna, Teatro Comunale Florence, Teatro Comunale Bologna, Teatro Regio Turin, Teatro San Carlo Naples, Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa, New National Theatre Tokyo, Zurich Opera House, Grand Theatre de Genève, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse and at the Bayreuth Festival.
He has worked with renowned conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Myung Wun Chung, Gianandrea Noseda, Gustavo Dudamel, Ottavio Dantone, Pierre Boulez, Christian Thielemann, Peter Schneider, Jonathan Darlington, Zubin Mehta, Sebastian Weigle, Ivor Bolton, Omer Meir Welber, Christopher Hogwood, Christoph v. Eschenbach, Manfred Honeck and many others.
Tomislav Mužek is also a sought-after concert singer and recitalist. For example, he sang Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis under Bernard Haitink with the Berlin Philharmonic at the 2007 Salzburg Easter Festival, as well as Dvorak’s Stabat Mater under Christoph von Eschenbach with the Staatskapelle Dresden in 2019.
In April 1999, he won first prize at the international “Ferruccio Tagliavini” singing competition in Austria. Following this, he was engaged as a lyric tenor at the Vienna State Opera in the 1999/2000 season and subsequently at the Theater Bremen until 2002. There he sang roles such as Don Ottavio, Ferrando, Alfredo, Rodolfo and Tamino.
Tomislav Mužek was born in Siegen and studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where he studied lied and oratorio in the class of KS Robert Holl.
