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Thomas Oliemans

Thomas Oliemans
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About

Thomas Oliemans (born 1977) is a Dutch baritone and pianist equally at home in opera, art song and French chanson. He trained at the Amsterdam Conservatory under Margreet Honig and has since performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Staatsoper Berlin and the Metropolitan Opera New York. In the Netherlands he is a regular guest at the Concertgebouw and Dutch National Opera.

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Winner De Ovatie 2021, classical music prize of the VSCD
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Recordings as performing artist (Muziekweb)

What's new

  • 2025-2026

    In the 2025/26 season, Oliemans makes his role debut as Theseus in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Teatro Real Madrid and debuts as Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier at the Volksoper Wien.

  • 2025-12

    On 18 December 2026, Oliemans performs at TivoliVredenburg Utrecht with a program of chansons and Sinatra, accompanied by pianists Cor Bakker and Bert van den Brink.

  • 2025-09

    In September 2025, Oliemans gave a masterclass for young singers in the television program Podium Klassiek.

  • 2025

    The Concertgebouw produced in 2025 a new podcast series with Oliemans about the nine symphonies of Mahler, as a continuation of earlier series on the Winterreise and the Matthäus-Passion.

  • 2024

    In 2024, Oliemans sang Papageno in Die Zauberflöte again at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, a role he also performed there in 2012, 2015 and 2018.

Tour

AmsterdamUtrechtLeidenMadridWienParmaTrondheim

Tracks

Winterreise (Schubert)Solo recital in which Oliemans accompanies himself on piano; widely praised by audience and press
Formidable! (cd, 2021)Album with French chansons together with Amsterdam Sinfonietta; led to winning De Ovatie 2021
Die Zauberflöte - Papageno (Mozart)His debut role at the Metropolitan Opera New York; described by the New York Times as 'a singular Papageno'
Dichterliebe (Schumann)Recording of the song cycle, part of a series of Schumann albums
Elias (Mendelssohn)Recording with Akamus Berlin and the RIAS Kammerchor conducted by Hans-Christoph Rademann

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