German-American bass-baritone Gabriel Rollinson studied at the Manhattan School of Music, the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts and the August Everding Theatre Academy. Since the start of the 2020/21 season he has been a member of the Opera Studio of the Frankfurt Opera. For the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam he created the role of Arturo Cidre in the world premiere of Micha Hamel’s Caruso a Cuba. He has also been heard as Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte) and as Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at Munich’s Prinzregententheater. In 2019 he sang Leone in a concert performance of Verdi’s Attila with the Munich Radio Orchestra under Ivan Repušić. Concerts and song recitals have taken him to the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest, to the Eppan Summer of Song in South Tyrol and to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. In 2019 Gabriel Rollinson was awarded bursaries by the Munich Wagner Society and the Lieder Academy of the Heidelberg Spring Festival. In 2020/21 he appeared in several livestreamed concerts from the Frankfurt Opera, including many in the series ‘Opera to go’. He also appeared in a concert with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana under Diego Fasolis and in a song recital with the pianist Hartmut Höll.
