Rupert Dussmann

private voice coach

Born in Wales, Rupert Dussmann studied at Kings College London, Guildhall School of Music and the National Opera Studio. He has held permanent positions as a vocal coach and repetiteur at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Stuttgart Staastheater, the Hamburg Staatsoper followed by 14 years at the  Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.

Over the years he has been a regular guest coach at Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam and has also guested in Spain (Gran Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Perelada Festival and Orquesta Nacional de España in Madrid), Italy (Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari), France (Opéra de Nice, Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg), Austria (Salzburg Easter and Summer Festivals, Theater an der Wien and Bregenzer Festspiele), Australia (Sydney Opera House, Victoria State Theatre in Melbourne), USA (Ravinia Festival), Japan (New National Theatre Tokyo) and Israel (New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv). He has regularly worked with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Barenboim and Yannick Nézet-Séguin and many international singers such as Plácido Domingo, Rolando Villazón, Charles Castronovo, Sonia Yoncheva, René Pape and Dorothea Röschmann. He is a fluent speaker of English, French, German and Spanish and has a decent working knowledge of Russian.