Among his signature roles are the title roles in Pelléas et Mélisande, Idomeneo and La clemenza di Tito; other important roles include Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Lurciano (Ariodante) and Chevalier de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites).
His 2025/26 season includes engagements such as the title-roles in Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala and Idomeneo in Luxembourg and at the Vienna State Opera, Don Ottavio with the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Budapest, Vicenza and Baden-Baden, Bach’s Mass in b-minor at the Verbier Festival, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at the Maggio Musicale in Florence and Haman in a recording of Thomas de Hartmann’s Esther for the Pentatone label.
A sought-after concert singer and recitalist, Bernard Richter performs with leading orchestras, including that of the Accademia nationale della Santa Cecilia, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, the Berliner Symphoniker, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, and the Severiges Radios Symfoniorkester in Stockholm, and has appeared on the most important concert stages such as the Salle Gaveau de Paris, the Tonhalle Zurich, the styriarte Graz, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, and the Konzerthaus in Vienna.
He works regularly with renowned conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Daniele Gatti, Teodor Currentzis, Philippe Jordan, Daniel Harding, Ádám Fischer, Iván Fischer, Kent Nagano, Marc Minkowski and Fabio Luisi and with directors such as Laurent Pelly, Christof Loy, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Keith Warner, Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau, Jean-Marie Villégier, Christophe Honoré, Zabou Breitman and Kasper Holten.
July 2025
