Emanuel Tomljenović

INTRODUCTION

Emanuel Tomljenović (Tomljenowitch) is a member of the opera ensemble at the Grand Théâtre de Genève for the 2024/2025 season and will join the soloist ensemble of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in 2025/2026.

He is a young lyric tenor of remarkable promise, distinguished by a smooth, natural voice of genuine quality, solid technique, and a strikingly mature personal musical instinct.

RECENT AND FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS

In the 2025/2026 season, Emanuel will join the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen’s soloist ensemble, appearing in a range of productions across the season. He will perform as Arturo Bucklaw/Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni, Abdallo/Nabucco, Le Remendado/Carmen, and Third Squire/Parsifal.

His upcoming engagements also include Nemorino/L’Elisir d’Amore at the Bregenz Festival (youth production) and 4th Jew/Salome at Teatro Regio di Torino.

In the 2024/2025 season, Emanuel was an ensemble member at Grand Théâtre de Genève, performing in the roles of Der junge Seemann and Ein Hirte/Tristan und Isolde, 4. Jude/Salome, Kuzka/Chowanschtschina, and Gastone/La Traviata. He also made a house debut as Tamino/Die Zauberflöte at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb and took on the role of Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni at Opera Rogaland. On the concert stage, Emanuel’s engagements included Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra in Denmark, and Mozart’s Requiem w. the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra in Kristiansand and Stavanger, Norway.

In the 2023/2024 season, as a member of the opera studio at the Cologne Opera, Emanuel Tomljenović performed in the roles of Stadtmusikanten and Hund in Şendil’s Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten, Romeo and Tybald in Blacher/Prokofiev’s Romeo und Julia, Robert der Teufel in Iván Eröd’s Pünktchen und Anton, and Sprecher in Ondřej Adámek’s opera Ines.

In that same season, Emanuel also had the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Additionally, he appeared as Tempo in Händel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Göttingen International Händel Festival.

BIOGRAPHY

The young tenor has established himself in concert and opera on various European stages in recent years. He appeared in operas such as Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne (as Bastien), Don Giovanni (as Don Ottavio), The Abduction from the Seraglio (as Belmonte), Bellini’s I Capuleti e I Montecchi (as Tebaldo), Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites (as L’Aumonier) Tchaikovsky’s The Maid of Orleans (as Raymond).

​His usual concert repertoire includes the following: Bach’s St Matthew Passion (evangelist and arias), St John Passion (evangelist and arias), Magnificat, b-minor Mass, Christmas Oratorio (evangelist and arias), and St Mark Passion (arias), Mozart’s c-minor Mass, Requiem and Coronation Mass, Mendelssohn’s Elias, Haydn’s The Creation, Saint-Saëns’s Christmas Oratorio and numerous other works.