Caspar Singh

Described as a voice “worthy of the greatest virtuosos” British-Indian tenor Caspar Singh is currently in his second season as Principal Mozart Tenor at the Komische Oper Berlin. He was previously an ensemble member of the Bayerische Staatsoper. Caspar completed his studies at the Staatsoper’s Opernstudio at the end of the 2019-20 season, having received a first-class degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied under Adrian Thompson and Susan Waters. In the 2023-24 season at the Komische Oper, Caspar sings the roles of Tamino Die Zaubeflöte, Ferrando Cosi fan tutte, Hyllus Hercules and Dalands Der fliegende Holländer. He also makes a return to Glyndebourne Festival Opera as Ein junger Seeman/Ein Hirt Tristan und Isolde. In concert, he performs Raminta Šerkšnytė’s Te Deum and Gloria with the Duisburger Philharmoniker conducted by Giedrė Šlekytė, Handel’s Messiah with the Nederlands Reisopera in Amsterdam, Mendelssohn’s Elijah at the Berlin Philharmonie with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Simon Halsey and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Vienna Konzerthaus with the ORF Radio-Sinfonieorchester Wien conducted by Tobias Wögerer. Future plans include company debuts at Malmö Opera, the Gran Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona, Grange Park Opera, Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, BBC Proms and returns to Bayerischestaatsoper and Garsington Opera.

Other recent opera appearances include Fenton Falstaff and Laerte Hamlet for the Komische Oper, Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream in his debut at the 2023 Glyndebourne Festival, and Male Chorus The Rape of Lucretia with the Kammerakademie Potsdam. Roles during his time as an ensemble member of the Bayerische Staatsoper include Gherardo Gianni Schicchi, Pásek Cunning Little Vixen, Arturo Lucia di Lammermoor, Dritter Knappe Parsifal, Hirte Tristan und Isolde and Dominik in Haas’s Thomas, Wilhelm Meister Mignon, Edmondo Manon Lescaut, Borsa Rigoletto, Der Haushofmeister bei Faninal Der Rosenkavalier, Dritter Knappe Parsifal, Scaramuccio Ariadne auf Naxos, the Prince in Hans Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen, Oberpriester Poseidons Idomeneo and Augustin Moser Die Meistersinger.

On the concert platform, Caspar’s recent appearances include performances of Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero (First Priest) and Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Berliner Philharmoniker cond. Kirill Petrenko, Handel’s Messiah with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Clemens Schuldt, a Mozart Gala concert with Sumi Jo and Warsaw Chamber Opera at Warsaw’s Philharmonic Hall and the role of Septimus Theodora at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow with the Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra and Alexander Rudin.

In 2017 Caspar was a finalist in the Franz Schubert Institut Lieder prize competition. A keen recitalist, Caspar has since performed Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin on a UK recital tour with Sholto Kynoch for Oxford Lieder and appeared in recital at the Munich Opera Festival, where performances include Britten Winter Words and Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Die Schöne Mullerin, and In the Great Dawn, Thomas Bove’s setting of Rupert Brooke’s poem ‘Second Best’.

Caspar was an Alvarez Young Artist for Garsington Opera. He has sung in masterclasses with Helmut Deutsch, Brigitte Fassbaender, Graham Johnson and Margreet Honig, and has worked with conductors including Douglas Boyd, Asher Fisch, Kirill Petrenko and Joana Mallwitz.