Belgian tenor Thomas Blondelle (Bruges, °1982) studied singing, piano, composition and chamber music at his home town’s Stedelijk Conservatorium. At the KUL University of Leuven, he obtained a degree in musicology in 2006. He was awarded the Second Prize at the Prix Jâcques Dôme singing competition in 2002, the Second Prize at the Concours Reine Elisabeth 2011 in Brussels, as well as the French Repertoire Prize (Palazetto Bru) at the 2012 Belvedere Competition in Vienna.
In the 2018-2019 season, Thomas Blondelle will sing Tambourmajor/Wozzeck, Erik/Der fliegende Holländer, Herodes/Salome and Eisenstein/Die Fledermaus at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, will be Prinz/Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen at the Komische Oper Berlin, will sing Danilo/La Veuve Joyeuse for Brussels Philharmonic, and will appear as Candide/Candide, Tito/La Clemenza di Tito, Idomeneo/Idomeneo, Herodes/Salome and Walther/Die Meistersinger at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden. With the Symphony Orchestra of the Volksoper Wien, he will go on a tour of Japan in January 2019.
At the Staatstheater Braunschweig (2006 till 2009) he sang Belmonte/Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Boris/Katja Kabanova, Orlando/Orlando Paladino, Cassio/Otello, Alfredo/La Traviata and Eisenstein/Die Fledermaus. Since 2009, Thomas Blondelle is a member of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he sang, amongst many other roles, Tamino/Die Zauberflöte, Loge/Das Rheingold, Ismaele/Nabucco, David/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Chevalier/Dialogues des Carmélites and Pelleas/Pelleas et Mélisande.
Besides his work as an ensemble member in Berlin, he is also a regular guest in other opera houses. He created the leading part of Melchior Gabor in Benoît Mernier’s Frühlings Erwachen at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in 2007, a role he later sang at Strasbourg’s Opéra national du Rhin in 2008. In the recent past, he has been invited for guest performances with the Bayerische Staatsoper in München, the Volksoper Wien, the Schleswig Holstein Festival, the Saito Kinen Festival, De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam and the BBC Proms..
As a soloist he performed with the Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, Nancy Opera, Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, WDR Rundfunkorchester, WDR Symphonieorchester Cologne, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, Orchestre de Monte Carlo, Orchestre de Paris, Brussels Philharmonic, and New York Philharmonic.