Gijs Van Der Linden

Education
Antwerps Kathedraalkoor (Jan Schrooten)
Conservatory Antwerp (Guy De Mey, Anne Cambier, Bernadette Degelin)
Singing Education at Gidon Saks, Marcos Pujol (Ghent)
Master classes: Bart Van Oort, Lucienne Van Dijck, Pascal Bertin, Greta De Reyghere, Carol Yahr, Jan Van Elsacker, Françoise Lasserre, Claire Michon, Agnes Melon
Muziekkapel Queen Elisabeth

Debut
Mozart’s Requiem led by Sir Robert Ruscoe, 2005

Highlights
Quint/The Turn of The Screw; Eisenstein/Die Fledermaus; Aeneas/Dido and Aeneas; Dancaïre/Carmen; Messager/Samson et Dalila (Vlaamse Opera), Cosmetic Merchant/Inquisitor 1/Judge/Señor 1/Charles Edward/Candide (Vlaamse Opera);Rodriguez/Don Quichotte (Massenet) (De Munt/La Monnaie Brussels); Knappe/Parsifal (De Munt/La Monnaie Brussels); Belmonte/Die Entführung: Is it love? (Vlaamse Opera); Eurimaco/Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Vlaamse Opera)

Worked with
Johan Duyck, Bo Holten, Yvan Meylemans, Mark de Smet, Bart Van Reyn, Benjamin Pope, Patrick Peire, Florian Heyerick, Marc de Smet, Jaak Gregoor, Flip Rathé, Klaas Stok

Recent and future productions
Member of the ensemble of the Vlaamse Opera 2011-2012: Jack O’Brien & Tobby Higgins/Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagony; Don Luigino/Il viaggio a Reims; Trabucco/La Forza del Destino; Carlos/Le Duc d’Albe; Remendado/Carmen

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