Dutch baritone Martijn Cornet is a former ensemble member at the Aalto Theater in Essen, where his roles included Il Conte di Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos, Moralès in Carmen, Baron Douphol in La Traviata, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, Valentin in Faust, Barbier in Die schweigsame Frau, Pantalon in L’amour des trois oranges, Heerrufer in Lohengrin, General von Rohnsdorff in Die Czardasfürstin, Kruschina in Smetana’s Die verkaufte Braut, Pappacoda and Makkaronikoch in Eine Nacht in Venedig, Schaunard in La Bohème and Gamekeeper in Dvořák’s Rusalka.
Also a regular guest at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, he has appeared there as Padde in Little Dog’s Heart, Le Crieur in La Juive, Patrocle in Iphigénie en Aulide, Cithéron and Un Satyre in Platée, 2nd Walvisvaarder in Legende by Dutch composer Jan-Peter Wagemans and, most recently, as He in the world premiere of Louis Andriessen’s new opera Theatre of the World in a staging by Pierre Audi, which was also performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
Other recent engagements include a highly acclaimed performance as Don Giovanni for Holland Opera, Gregorio in Roméo et Juliette and Caronte in Haydn’s Orlando Palladino, both at the Zaterdagmatinee series at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Enrico in L’Isola Disabitata at the Nederlandse Reisopera, the title role in Monteverdi’s Orfeo in a special anniversary production of the Opera Studio Nederland, Cithéron and Un Satyre in Platée with the Early Opera Company in London, Horatio in Thomas’ Hamlet, Hermann/Schlémil in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, Ivan Zhuran in Tchaikovsky’s The Sorceress, all at Theater an der Wien, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus at Opéra national de Lorraine, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte at the New Israeli Opera and Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Semperoper Dresden.
His concert repertoire includes works such as Kurt Weill’s Berliner Requiem, Haydn’s Paukenmesse, Schönberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, the Fauré Requiem and both Bach’s Johannes- and Matthäus-Passion, which he has performed with orchestras such as The Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Het Residentie Orkest, The Hague Philharmonic and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. At the Grachtenfestival Amsterdam, he has appeared in two chamber operas by Jonathan Dove and Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach. In recital, he also performed at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, as part of their ‘Young Artists’ series.
Mr. Cornet has already had the pleasure of working with conductors such as Marc Minkowski, René Jacobs, James MacMillan, Carlo Rizzi, Jan Willem de Vriend, Martyn Brabbins, Tomas Netopil, Reinbert de Leeuw, Alessandro de Marchi, Paul Agnew and Richard Egarr and with stage-directors such as Nigel Lowery, Pierre Audi, Christoph Loy, Guy Joosten, Philipp Himmelmann and Carlos Wagner.
