Werner Van Mechelen

Education
Lemmens-Instituut Leuven, with Roland Bufkens
Master classes: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Malcolm King, Robert Holl, Mitsuko Shirai, Hartmut Höll

Highlights
Don Giovanni, Leporello/Don Giovanni; Figaro, Conte Almaviva/Le Nozze di Figaro; Don Alfonso, Guglielmo/Così fan tutte; Papageno/Die Zauberflöte; Pizarro/Fidelio; Graf Eberbach/Der Wildschütz; Dandini/La Cenerentola, Rigoletto; Ford/Falstaff; Varlaam/Boris Godoenov; Schaunard, Marcello/La Bohème; Sonora/La Fanciulla del West; Karnac/Le Roi d’Ys, Mandryka/Arabella; Tierbändiger, Athlet/Lulu; Wozzeck; Gyges/Der König Kandaules; Forester/The Cunning Little Vixen; Nekrotzar/Le Grand Macabre; Wotan/Das Rheingold; Wolfram/Tannhäuser; Kothner/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Alberich/Der Ring des Nibelungen (Opéra Royal de Wallonie, De Nederlandse Opera, De Vlaamse Opera)

Prizes
Queen Elisabeth (Brussels), Vocal Competition (‘s-Hertogenbosch), Concours International de Chant (Toulouse), Concurs Viñas, Schubert prize (Barcelona), BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition

Worked with
James Conlon, Patrick Davin, Roy Goodman, Hartmut Haenchen, Lothar Koenigs, Bernhard Kontarsky, Ton Koopman, Sigiswald Kuijken, Friedemann Layer, Antonio Pappano, Stefan Soltesz, Jeffrey Tate, Silvio Varviso, Mark Wigglesworth

Recent and future productions
Amfortas/Parsifal; Kurwenal/Tristan und Isolde; Thoas/Iphigénie en Tauride, Jochanaan/Salome; Musiklehrer/Ariadne auf Naxos; Sancho Panca/Don Quichotte; Le Chambellan/Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne; Faninal/Der Rosenkavalier; Michele and Gianni Schicchi/IIl Trittico; Der Geisterbote/Die Frau ohne Schatten.