Bassist

Don Giovanni: Is he the legendary rake, womanizer and heartbreaker who does not shy away from murder in his pursuit of erotic conquests? Or is he a radical free spirit whose urge for freedom shatters all norms and spares neither death nor punishment?

Don Giovanni

Theater Duisburg

Katerina Ismailova is wealthily married and lonely, her husband impotent and her father-in-law a tyrant. She is trapped in a world where merciless brutality, despotism and cruelty reign. The woman with a lust for life and love gives way to her raw longing for freedom when Sergei starts working for the Ismailov family. She throws herself into a passionate affair with him and poisons her father-in-law's food. But the increasing radicalism of her desire for self-determination will claim further victims ...

Lady Macbeth von Mzensk

German Oper am Rhein

With the sadistic police chief Scarpia, Giacomo Puccini enriched opera literature with one of its most abysmal characters.
The painter Cavaradossi falls into his clutches when he helps a political prisoner to escape.
But for Scarpia, Cavaradossi is just a decoy through which he can finally win the celebrated singer Tosca.

Tosca

Theatre, theatre everywhere! During rehearsals for the highly tragic period piece ‘Romulus and Ersilia’, everything somehow goes wrong: the prima donna doesn't feel well, the trouser role doesn't like itself and the tenor finally wants to play first violin.
And to make matters worse, Mamma Agata, the second soprano's weird helicopter mother, bursts in...

Prima la Mamma!

The general Otello has achieved everything an ambitious upstart like him could dream of: Respected as the successful commander of the Venetian fleet and loved by his beautiful wife Desdemona, fate seems to have favored him. But one man senses the self-destructive jealousy smouldering behind the façade of the successful man: Jago. Ever since Otello's ensign was passed over for a promotion, he has been driving his superior's downfall with a coolly calculated destructive fury, cleverly feeding Otello's doubts about Desdemona's fidelity...

Bassist

Valentin Ruckebier

Events

Upcoming events

Jun 22 - Jul 13, 2025

Otello · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Apr 29, 2026

Stroke of Genius · Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne

Past events

Mar 23, 2025

Don Giovanni · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Feb 17 - May 3, 2025

Lady Macbeth von Mzensk · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Future and recently performed repertoire

Montano in Otello by Verdi

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Masetto in Don Giovanni by Mozart

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Dichter Heinrich in Prima la Mamma! by Donizetti

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

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