Lyric tenor Timothy Oliver has been a member of the ensemble at the Semperoper Dresden since the 2005/2006 season where he has built up a extensive repertoire of over 40 roles. The 31 year-old tenor, known for his interpretations of lyric as well as character tenor repertoire, is also a regular guest on concert stages and most recently appeared at the Vienna Musikverein in late March 2010 under the baton and at the invitation of Fabio Luisi in the title role of Berlioz’s La Damation de Faust. Timothy also made his Santa Fe Opera debut as Monostatos in Mozart’s Magic Flute in summer 2010.

Future highlights for the Norfolk, Virginia native include performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at the Domkirche in Zwickau, and tenor solo in oratorio The Book of the Seven Seals by F. Schmidt at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in 2012 (cond. Fabio Luisi). His contract at the Semperoper Dresden has also been extended for the 2010/2011 season, where he will be heard as Pedrillo, as well as in new productions of Monteverdi’s Poppea (Valetto, 2. Soldat), and Weill’s Street Scene (Daniel Buchanon). In addition to his experience at the Semperoper, Mr. Oliver made his Boston Lyric Opera debut in 2008 as Pedrillo in Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio and at the Bayreuth Festival as the Vierte Knappe in Parsifal. In summer 2009 Mr. Oliver was also invited back to the Bayreuth Festival for Ulrich Eislinger in Die Meistersinger and again Vierte Knappe. The tenor was also heard at the Festspielhaus Hellerau as the Shepherd in Oedipus Rex, as the tenor solo in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Thüringer Philharmonie and in 2008 as tenor solo in Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Alte Oper Frankfurt. He has also been heard as Nemorino at the Rheinsberg Festival in Germany and in Italy as Tamino. Mr. Oliver is a regular recitalist and has appeared in Zittau and Dresden and then most recently for the German Embassy in the Balkans (Macedonia, Serbia and Kosovo) and in Santa Fe.

In 2008/2009 at the Semperoper Dresden, Timothy Oliver added the following roles: Spoletta (Tosca), Jaquio (Fidelio), Ruiz (Il Trovatore), Gottesnarr and Grigorij (Boris Godunov). In 2007/2008 new roles included Borsa (Rigoletto), Vierte Knappe (Parsifal), A. Candolino (Masterclass) Balthazar Zorn and David (cover ) Die Meistersinger, Camille de Rosillon (Lustige Witwe), Petr Nikolaevic (Weihrauch’s Elizavetha Bam) and Father Grenville in Dead Man Walking. The previous season he added Pedrillo, Der Steuermann (Fliegende Holländer), Valzacchi (Der Rosenkavalier), Remendado (Carmen), Pastor Adams (Peter Grimes), Rodrigo (Otello), Erster Jude (Salome) Dr. Blind Die Fledermaus, and Ein Zimmerkellner (Arabella). Mr. Oliver’s first season at the Sempreoper Dresden also included many roles such as Monostatos and 2nd Priest (Die Zauberflöte), Don Curzio (le Nozze di Figaro), Malcolm (Macbeth), Ein junger Seeman (Tristan), Rudolf (Euryanthe), Brabantische Edle (Lohengrin), Younger Brother (Dead Man Walking), Brighella (Ariadne auf Naxos), König I (Die Liebe der Danae), J. Schmidt and T. Higgins (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagony), 2nd Nazarene (Salome), Graf von Lerma (Don Carlos), and Parpignol in La Boheme.

Timothy Oliver studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and graduated Magna Cum Laude with honors.