The baritone Gabriel Rollinson was a member of the opera studios of the Frankfurt Opera and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Since then, he has performed at venues and festivals including the Bregenz and Salzburg Festivals, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, the Berlin State Opera, the International George Enescu Festival and the Schubertíada in Vilabertran.
He has worked with conductors including Vladimir Jurowski and Sebastian Weigle and participated in a European tour of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with the Balthasar Neumann Choir and Orchestra under Thomas Hengelbrock.
Since 2023 he has been a member of the ensemble of the Mainz State Theatre, where he has appeared in roles such as Silvio (Pagliacci), Metternich in Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert’s L’Aiglon, Hans in Udo Zimmermann’s Weiße Rose and Ping (Turandot). In the 2025/26 season he performed Frank/Fritz (Die tote Stadt), Dandini (La Cenerentola) and Papageno (Die Zauberflöte). He also made his debut at the Semperoper Dresden as Hannah Younger in Laura Kaminsky’s As One.
During the 2026/27 season, he will make role debuts in Mainz as Ford (Falstaff), Don Giovanni and Robert Oppenheimer in John Adams’s Doctor Atomic. He will also perform the bass solo in performances of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with the MDR Symphony Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davis and with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg under Paavo Järvi, and at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
Gabriel Rollinson studied at the Manhattan School of Music, the University of Music and Theatre and the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding in Munich and the University of Music in Karlsruhe. He has also received mentoring from Brigitte Fassbaender, Rudolf Piernay, Thomas Hampson and Renée Fleming.
A passionate recitalist, he performs regularly with the pianist Hartmut Höll. In 2024 they released their first joint album, featuring works by William Grant Still. Gabriel Rollinson also appears on recordings of Damijan Močnik’s St John Passion and Verdi’s Attila under Ivan Repušić. In 2004 he was nominated as Young Artist of the Year by the magazine Opernwelt.
He won the song prize at both the International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition and the International Mirjam Helin Singing Competition.
