Tijl Faveyts

Tijl Faveyts is a Belgian operatic bass who made an international career. He has performed leading roles such as Mozart's Sarastro and Hunding in Wagner's Die Walküre and Gurnemanz in Parsifal at major opera houses, concert halls and festivals, and made recordings.

Life and career Born in Belgium, Faveyts studied voice at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, with Ralf Döring and Robert Holl.

From 2015, Faveyts appeared as Fasolt and Hunding in Der Ring in Minden, Wagner's Ring cycle at the Stadttheater Minden conducted by Frank Beermann, which was completed in 2019. In January 2022 he made his house debut in the Bayerische Staatsoper München as Vanuzzi in Die schweigsame Frau. In March 2022, he performed as the King in Aida at the Semperoper in Dresden conducted by Christian Thielemann. In November 2022 he made his Italian operatic debut at the Teatro Pavarotti-Freni Modena and the Teatro Communale Reggio Emilia as Landgraf Hermann in Tannhäuser, conducted by Marcus Bosch. In September 2023 he made his role debut as Gurnemanz in Parsifal at the Theater Minden conducted by Beermann and directed by Eric Vigié. In June 2024 he made his Hungarian debut as Fasolt in Das Rheingold at the Müpa conducted by Ádám Fischer. In 2025 he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Hans Schwarz in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Second Knight in Parsifal. In 2026 he made his Norwegian debut as Arkel in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande , returned to La Monnaie as Balducci in Benvenuto Cellini by Berlioz, and to the Oper Köln as Hunding. and Fasolt Das Rheingold and Gurnemanz Parsifal at the Müpa Budapest .

Faveyts appeared as a guest at the Vlaamse Opera in Ghent and Antwerp, Oper Leipzig, the opera of Bilbao, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, Teatro Cervantes Malaga, Theater Bonn, Opera de Lille, Oper Köln, Grand Théâtre de Genève, St. Galler Festspiele, Macao cultural center, NCPA Kaoshiung, National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv. Fabio Luisi, Kazushi Ōno, Giacomo Sagripanti, Konstantin Trinks, Marc Albrecht, Daniel Harding, Christophe Eschenbach, Antonello Manacorda, Daniele Gatti, Pablo Heras-Casado and Carlo Rizzi. Stage directors with whom he worked have included Stéphane Braunschweig, Barrie Kosky, Vincent Broussard, Mariame Clément, Frank Castorf, Stefan Herheim, Kasper Holten and . Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Berlin and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, among others. in 2012 and the role of the Pfleger des Orest in Strauss' Elektra with the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Marc Albrecht. In 2018 he performed the role of Arkel in the studiorecording of Impressions de Pélleas from Marius Constant. In 2010 he recorded a DVD of Puccini's La fanciulla del West and in 2011 Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila with the Vlaamse Opera.