THEATER MAGDEBURG
Offenbach / Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Kimbo Ishii-Eto, conductor
Premiere: March 31, 2012
April 9/15/22, 2012
May 4, 2012

KOMISCHE OPER BERLIN
Weill / Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Martin Hoff, conductor
Premiere: June 2, 2012
 June 7/11/23/30, 2012



Kor-Jan Dusseljee, tenor

Kor-Jan Dusseljee opens the season 2011/12 season with concerts with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under the baton of Riccardo Chailly in Vienna, Paris and London with Beethoven´s symphony no. 9. Then he sings Florestan in a new production of Fidelio at the Teatro Regio Torino, the title role of Offenbachs The tales of Hofmann at the Theater Magdeburg, the revival of Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Komische Oper Berlin as well as the tenor title role in the world premiere of Detlef Glanert´s Solaris at the Bregenz Festival 2012.

His major successes include Hermann in Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame sung at the Komische Oper Berlin and at the Teatro Regio Torino, Verdi's Otello at the Sächsischen Staatsoper Dresden and Lohengrin at the Staatstheater Braunschweig.

In July 2009 Kor-Jan Dusseljee sang Beethoven’s Symphony N° 9 with the NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg under the baton of Christoph von Dohnanyi at the TV-broadcasted opening-concert of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. 

At the beginning of 2010, the singer returned with Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Queen of Spades to Komische Oper Berlin. Afterwards, he can be heard with Janacek’s Glagolitical Mass with the Orchestra Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. At the end of this season, he will sing Florestan in Braunschweig. Riccardo Chailly invited Kor-Jan Dusseljee for four TV New-Years Concerts 2011 (Beethoven’s Symphony N° 9) with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.

In past seasons, Kor-Jan Dusseljee debuted successfully among other things as Lohengrin, Don Alvaro (La Forza del Destino), Prince (Rusalka) and Hoffmann in Braunschweig, as Radames in Aachen, as Tambourmajor in Essen and as Max (Freischütz) at Komische Oper Berlin. The successful Dutch tenor collaborated with several renowned conductors such as Arnold Östman, Hartmut Haenchen, Kenneth Montgomery, Kirill Petrenko, Silvio Varviso and Valery Gergiev, and sang with important orchestras such as Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden and Bamberger Symphoniker.

Kor-Jan Dusseljee studied in the Netherlands at the Academy of Utrecht in the class of German baritone Udo Reinemann, where he graduated in 1988 "cum laude". He attended masterclasses of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Hartmut Höll and Mitsuko Shirai. In 1987 he was laureate of the 3rd International Singers’ Competition in Clermont-Ferrand, which led him to several concert-invitations in France (Festival de Besançon), the Netherlands (Radio and Television), Finland (Savonlinna Festival), Switzerland and Germany.