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The Finnish operatic bass Timo Riihonen was born 1983 in Mikkeli, Finland. He studied
at the renowned Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, from where he graduated as Master of Arts
in 2010. In 2008 he joined the International Opera Studio in Zürich, which made it possible
for him to sing many roles at the Zürich Opera House. In 2007 he was awarded the Matti Salminen - foundation scholarship. In the summer of 2008 he studied at the Mozart 
Academy in the festival at Aix-en-Provence with Susanna Eken and Tom Krause.

He was a member of the opera house ensembles in Kiel and Deutsche oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf between the years 2009-2018. Since 2018 he works as a freelance artist all over the world. As a guest soloist, he has performed in many of the top opera houses and concert halls in the world. Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House, Bayreuther Festspiele, Staatsoper Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Filharmonie Moscow, Berlin Filharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, State opera in Prag and Opera Australia in Melbourne to name a few. He often performs in his native country Finland, being a regular guest at the Finnish National Opera and Savonlinna Opera Festival. He also teaches at the Sibelius-Academy, hoping to pass on his knowledge to future generations. 

Timo Riihonen has won many prizes and received scholarships in competitions. He was nominated for Der Österreichische Musiktheaterpreis in 2021 in the category of Beste männliche Hauptrolle (best male lead).


Current und future engagements include among others Baron Ochs at the Hessische Staatsoper Wiesbaden (2023) and Staatsoper in Prag (2024), Landgraf Hermann in Opera Australia in Melbourne (2023), Frere Laurent in Savonlinna Opera Festival (2023), Claggart at the Enescu Festival (2023), Bass Solo in Verdis Requiem at the Finnish National Opera (2023), König Heinrich in National Oper du Rhin (2023) and Hessische Staatsoper Wiesbaden (2023-2024). Also next season (2023-2024) at Hessische Staatsoper Wiesbaden Sarastro, Filippo and Fasolt. König Heinrich at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 2024. Filippo in Finnish National Opera in 2025.


Timo Riihonen has worked with world renowned conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Hartmut Hänchen, Semyon Bychkov, Kiril Petrenko, Philippe Auguin, Philippe Jordan, Andris Nelsons, Marek Janowski, Oksana Lyniv, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Leif Segerstam, Hannu Lintu, Alexander Joel, Michael Boder, Carlo Rizzi, Nello Santi and with stage directors such as Barrie Kosky, Andreas Homoki, Simon Stone, Keith Warner, Uwe Erik Laufenberg, Grischa Asagaroff, Tatjana Gürbaca, Guy Cassiers, Guy Joosten, Robert Carsen, Christoph Loy and Jean-Yves Ruf.

As a concert and Lied singer Timo Riihonen has performed in the Tonhalle in Zürich, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. the Berlin Philharmonic and Moscow Filharmonic, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, the Ebracher Musiksommer festival, Goetheanum in Switzerland and the Tonhalle in Kiel among others. He has been a soloist in Beethovens 9. Symphony, J. S. Bach’s St. John and St. Matthew Passions, the F minor mass from Bruckner, Stabat Mater by Dvořák and Requiem by Mozart and Verdi.

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The Rhinegold

Fafner

Don Giovanni

Il Commendatore

Robin Hood

Bruder Tuck

Carmen

Zuniga

Madame Butterfly

Lo zio Bonzo

The Magic Flute

Sprecher

La Bohème

Colline

Rigoletto

Sparafucile

The Clemency of Titus

Publio

Platea

Cithéron

Fasolt

Jenufa

Rychtár

Sarastro

Tristan and Isolde

König Marke

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Sir John Falstaff

Ariadne on Naxos

Truffaldin

Macbeth

Banco

Eugene Onegin

Knyaz Gremin

The Marriage of Figaro

Bartolo

Matsukaze

Der Mönch

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Aida

Il Re d'Egitto

The Valkyrie

Hunding

The Huguenots

Marcel

The Journey to Reims

Don Profondo

Siegfried

Tannhäuser

Hermann

William Tell

Melcthal

Arabella

Graf Waldner

Aleko

Starik

The Fiery Angel

The Inquisitor

Don Carlos (French version)

Philippe II

The Flying Dutchman

Daland

Don Carlo (Italian version)

Filippo II

Requiem Mass

Billy Budd

John Claggart

Il Grande Inquisitore

The Force of Destiny

Padre guardiano

Innocence

Priest

Ramfis

The Knight of the Rose

Der Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau

The Master-Singers of Nuremberg

Veit Pogner

Romeo and Juliet

Frère Laurent

Helsinkiin

No role specified

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Op. 29

Pope

Lohengrin

Heinrich der Vogler

Old Convict

The Horseman

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