Through his expressive role portrayals, Nazmi has become a sought-after performer on
international opera stages. Highlights of recent seasons include his performance as
Sarastro at the Salzburg Festival in 2022, following his international breakthrough in 2021
with the role of the Speaker. In 2023, he impressed at the summer festivals with his first
Italian role as Banco in Verdi's Macbeth (directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski), before
returning to Salzburg in the 2023/24 season as Alvise in La Gioconda at the Easter Festival
under the direction of Antonio Pappano. Invited by Franz Welser-Möst, he shone in
Cleveland as Sarastro in Mozart's The Magic Flute and later at the Munich Opera Festival as
Ferrando in Verdi's Il Trovatore and as Gurnemanz in Wagner's Parsifal. He made his debut
at the Vienna State Opera as King Heinrich in Wagner's Lohengrin. Other important roles in
his extensive repertoire include Filippo II in Verdi's Don Carlo, Zaccaria in Nabucco, and
Hunding in Die Walküre.
In the 2024/25 season, Tareq Nazmi will continue his successful career with several
significant debuts. He will perform the role of King Marke in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde for
the first time at both the Grand Théâtre de Genève and with the Philadelphia Orchestra
under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Additionally, he will be seen at the Theater an der Wien as
Oroveso in a new production of Bellini's Norma and will make a house and role debut as
Gremin at the Dresden Semperoper. Another outstanding engagement this season is his
return as Gurnemanz in Wagner's Parsifal at the Tokyo Spring Festival. He will also perform
the bass part in Verdi's Messa da Requiem with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di
Santa Cecilia under the direction of Daniel Harding, and will once again appear as Pater
Profundus in Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Philippe
Jordan at the Vienna Konzerthaus.
As a sought-after concert soloist, Tareq Nazmi has a versatile repertoire that spans works
from Bach to Beethoven, from Haydn to Brahms, and from Mozart to Dvořák and Mahler. He
has already collaborated with renowned orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris under
Daniel Harding, the Orquestra Gulbenkian under Alain Altinoglu, the WDR Symphony
Orchestra under Jukka-Pekka Saraste, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the Leipzig
Gewandhaus Orchestra under Manfred Honeck, as well as the Balthasar Neumann Choir and
Ensemble under Thomas Hengelbrock. As an ensemble bass, he has been heard in Verdi's
Messa da Requiem with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra under John Eliot Gardiner, on tour
with Teodor Currentzis, and with the Berlin Philharmonic under Daniel Barenboim. Other
notable performances include Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in Munich under Kirill Petrenko,
as well as concerts with the Munich Philharmonic under Philippe Herreweghe and the Berlin
Radio Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski.
As a lieder singer, Tareq Nazmi recently performed with Gerold Huber at the Schubertiade
Hohenems, in Munich, Cologne, and at London's Wigmore Hall. In spring 2023, he
performed Schubert's Winterreise at the Tokyo Spring Festival.