BIOGRAPHY

Described as a voice “worthy of the greatest virtuosos” British-Indian tenor Caspar Singh spent the past two seasons as Principal Mozart Tenor at the Komische Oper Berlin. He was previously an ensemble member of the Bayerische Staatsoper. Singh completed his studies at the Staatsoper’s Opernstudio at the end of the 2019-20 season, having received a first-class degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied under Adrian Thompson and Susan Waters. 

In the 2024-25 season Singh makes house debuts at both Malmö Opera and Norwegian Opera as Ferrando Cosi fan tutte and at Grange Park Opera as Shah Jahan, fifth Mughal emperor, in the world premiere of sitarist Nishat Khan's opera Taj Mahal directed by Stephen Medcalf. He also appears for the BBC Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall as Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Garsington Opera. This season’s concert highlights include Carl Orff Carmina Burana with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, a staged production of Mozart Requiem with the Rundfunkchor Berlin and he makes his Wigmore Hall recital debut with pianist Eva Danilewska. Future plans include his company debuts at the Gran Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona, English National Opera and returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper and Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

Singh's recent roles at the Komische Oper include Tamino Die Zauberflöte, Ferrando, Hyllus Hercules, Dalands Der fliegende Holländer, Fenton Falstaff and Laerte Hamlet. For the 2024 Glyndebourne Festival he sang Ein junger Seeman/Ein Hirt Tristan und Isolde having made his festival debut the previous year as Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has also performed Male Chorus The Rape of Lucretia with the Kammerakademie Potsdam. Roles during his time as an ensemble member of the Bayerische Staatsoper include Gherardo Gianni Schicchi, Pásek Cunning Little Vixen, Arturo Lucia di Lammermoor, Dritter Knappe Parsifal, Hirte Tristan und Isolde, Dominik in Haas Thomas, Wilhelm Meister Mignon, Edmondo Manon Lescaut, Borsa Rigoletto, Der Haushofmeister bei Faninal Der Rosenkavalier, Scaramuccio Ariadne auf Naxos, the Prince in Hans Abrahamsen The Snow Queen, Oberpriester Poseidons Idomeneo and Augustin Moser Die Meistersinger.

On the concert platform, Singh's recent appearances include Raminta Šerkšnytė Te Deum with the Duisburger Philharmoniker conducted by Giedrė Šlekytė, Handel Messiah with the Nederlands Reisopera in Amsterdam, Mendelssohn Elijah at the Berlin Philharmonie with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Simon Halsey and Carl Orff Carmina Burana at the Vienna Konzerthaus with the ORF Radio-Sinfonieorchester Wien conducted by Tobias Wögerer. Other performances include Dallapiccola Il Prigioniero (First Priest) and Mendelssohn Elijah with the Berliner Philharmoniker cond. Kirill Petrenko, Handel Messiah with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Clemens Schuldt, a Mozart Gala concert with Sumi Jo and Warsaw Chamber Opera at Warsaw’s Philharmonic Hall and the role of Septimus Theodora at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow with the Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra and Alexander Rudin.

In 2017 Singh was a finalist in the Franz Schubert Institut Lieder prize competition. A keen recitalist, Singh has since performed Schubert Die schöne Müllerin on a UK recital tour with Sholto Kynoch for Oxford Lieder and appeared in recital at the Munich Opera Festival, where performances include Britten Winter Words and Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Die Schöne Mullerin, and In the Great Dawn, Thomas Bove’s setting of Rupert Brooke’s poem ‘Second Best’.

Singh was an Alvarez Young Artist for Garsington Opera. He has sung in masterclasses with Helmut Deutsch, Brigitte Fassbaender, Graham Johnson and Margreet Honig, and has worked with conductors including Douglas Boyd, Asher Fisch, Kirill Petrenko and Joana Mallwitz