Gordon Bintner

Gordon Bintner Bass baritone

Biography

Bass-baritone Gordon Bintner amassed a broad operatic repertoire across six seasons as a member of Oper Frankfurt’s ensemble. A former member of the Opera Studio of Canadian Opera Company (Toronto), he has since returned as a regular guest to that stage including in his role debut as Eugene Onegin and Belcore (L’Elisir d’amore) and, as Papageno (The Magic Flute) and as Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro). He has recently made debuts at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Albert (Werther) and Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), at San Francisco Opera in Eugene Onegin (title role) and at Opéra national de Lyon in the title role of Le Nozze di Figaro.

His concert repertoire includes Bach’s St Matthew Passion and Weihnachtsoratorium, Beethoven’s Symphony No.9, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Mahler’s Symphony No.8, Handel’s Messiah and Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ. Gordon Bintner made his debut at London’s Wigmore Hall last season with pianist Kirill Gerstein and recently sang a Brahms and Schumann’s programme at the Bourgie auditorium in Montreal, with Michael McMahon. His discography includes A Quiet Place recorded with Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Kent Nagano (Decca Classics, 2018) and the Count in Schreker’s Der ferne Klang (OehmsClassics, 2021). The 2023/24 season sees his debut at Teatro Regio in Turin as Ruggiero (La Juive) and his performance of Don Giovanni (title role) at Canadian Opera Company, Toronto.