AJ Glueckert
Tenor
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The American tenor AJ Glueckert made his debut at the Met in New York in 2016/17, singing Erik in Der fliegende Holländer, the same season he joined the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt, where he enjoyed great success last season in the title role of a new production of Zemlinsky's George the Dreamer. During the 2024/25 season you can hear him adding new roles to his repertoire: Alwa and Heurtal in new productions of Berg's Lulu and Magnard's Guercœur and repeating his portrayal of Skuratov in Janáček's From the House of the Dead. During the previous two seasons he enjoyed great success with the Emperor in Die Frau ohne Schatten at Cologne Opera and, back in Frankfurt, Walther von Stolzing (role debut) in a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, which he also sang at the Müpa in Budapest, and the title role in Lohengrin, which he sang for the first time at the Tirol Festival in Erl, Lenski in Eugene Onegin, The Assistant / Man with a Donkey in a wonderful new Weill/Orff The Tsar has his Photograph Taken /The Clever Woman double bill, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and in Bruckner's Te Deum, in Sebastian Weigle's farewell Museums Concert. He also repeated his wonderful portrayals of Lyonel and Herodes in Flotow's Martha (get the CD! OehmsClassics) and Strauss' Salome. Other roles in Frankfurt have included Don José in Barrie Kosky's stunning Carmen, Edrisi (Szymanowski's Król Roger), Graf Vaudémont (Iolanta), Flamand (Capriccio), Tenor / Bacchus, Froh (Das Rheingold) and Erik. He made his European debut in Frankfurt in 2014/15, singing the Prince in Rusalka and recently sang the Scarlet Coloured Beast in Langaard's Antichrist at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Tenor / Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos) and the title role in Oedipus Rex at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, where he returned for Mephistopheles in Busoni's Doctor Faust, and Bacchus at the Glyndebourne Festival and Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) at Santa Fe Opera, where he was a member of their Young Artists Program. He enjoys close ties to San Francisco Opera, as a former Adler Fellow and member of their Merola Opera Program. He has also appeared at Pittsburgh Opera, Minnesota Opera and Opera Philadelphia. He graduated from the Conservatory of Music in San Francisco and is a two time winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions regional competition.