Guenes Guerle was born in Izmir( Smyrna), a city surrounded by Roman theatres. Started his music education playing classical guitar in 1989. Then had the opportunity of studying in Istanbul under the
guidance of Turkey’s opera pioneers Mr Aydin Gün and Mrs. Azra Gün. After graduation, continued his studies with Prof. Güzin Gürel.
The first achievement in his career was the jury award in the international Leyla Gencer competition, 1997, which led to an invitation to Bologna teatro comunale to cover M. Pertusi for Don Giovanni in Gatti/de Bosio production. He did attend few successful competitions including the finals of Toti dal Monte, Treviso 2003 and Hans Gabor Belvedere, Vienna 2004.
Later “Giovanni” became one of his favorite roles which he played in Istanbul 2002, Düsseldorf 2005, Bern 2011, for good 15 years till he had the chance of playing Leporello in 2013, Düsseldorf.
Guenes Guerle appeared in Grand Théâtre de Genève in June 2015 with Beethoven’s Fidelio as Don Fernando(regie: Matthias Hartmann), later on with Berlioz’ Les Troyens(with Charles Dutoit, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) as Narbal and this January at Opera des Nations (Geneva) with Cavalli’s Giasone (Con. Leonardo Alarcon) as Besso.
After a successful debut in Oslo, Den Norske Opera in May 2016 with Puccini’s Turandot(regie:Andreas Homoki)as Timur, he is appearing with the same role in Düsseldorf(March/April2017).
The highlights of 2017/18 were, Don Magnifico in Jean Pierre Ponelle’s legendary Cenerentola in Düsseldorf, revival of Giasone in Opéra Royal de Versailles as Besso, and Benjamin Britten’s “a midsummer night’s dream” as Theseus in Theater an der Wien. He then appeared in Grand Théâtre de Genève as Tom in Giancarlo del Monaco’s staging of Ballo in Maschera June 2019. In Oslo, Den Norske Opera as Dulcamara in Oliver Mears’ L’elisir d’amore and Sparafucile in Ole Anders Tandberg’s Rigoletto and in 2020 in Theater an der Wien as Palémon in Peter Konwitschny’s staging of Thaïs.
Repertoire
Battistelli
Richard III – Buckingham
The Fashio – Max
Beethoven
Fidelio – Don Fernando
Bellini
Norma – Oroveso
I puritani – Herr Gualtiero Walton
Berlioz
La Prise de Troie – Panthée
Les Troyens à Carthage – Panthée – Narbal
Bock
Fiddler on the Roof – Lazar Wolf
Britten
Peter Grimes – Schwalbe
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Theseus
Donizetti
L’elisir d’amore – Doktor Dulcamara
Don Pasquale – Don Pasquale
La Fille du régiment – Suplizio
Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali – Director Bertolt – Reggiseur Bertolt
Händel
Giulio Cesare in Egitto – Julius Cäsar
Janáček
Z mrtvého domu – Häftling in der Rolle Don Juans und des Braminen
Jenůfa – Altgesell
Lange
Vom Mädchen, das nicht schlafen wollte – Totengräber
Massenet
Werther – Der Amtmann
Thaïs – Palemon
Mozart
Die Entführung aus dem Serail – Osmin
Don Giovanni – Don Giovanni – Leporello
Le nozze di Figaro – Figaro – Doktor Bartolo
Così fan tutte – Don Alfonso – Soloist
Die Zauberflöte – Sprecher – Zweiter Geharnischter
Nikolai
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor – Doktor Cajus
Offenbach
Les contes d’Hoffmann – Luther – Crespel
Poulenc
Dialogues des Carmélites – Zweiter Kommissar
Prokofjew
The Fiery Angel – Diener im Gasthof – Der Wirt
Puccini
Tosca – Cesare Angelotti
La Bohème – Colline
Turandot – Timur
Rameau
Castor et Pollux – Pollux
Rossini
Il turco in Italia – Selim – Bassa
Il barbiere di Siviglia – Don Basilio
La Cenerentola – Don Magnifico
Schötz
Pinocchio – Schulleiterin – Lehrerin – Gepetto – Geppetto / Headmistress / Teacher
Schreier
Schade, dass sie eine Hure war – Florio
Schwemmer
Robin Hood – Der Sheriff von Nottingham
Strauss
Salome – First Nazarene – Second soldier
Arabella – Graf Lamoral
Strawinsky
The Rake’s Progress – Vater Truelove
Tschaikowski, P. I.
Orleanskaya Deva – Thibaut d’Arc
Verdi
Un ballo in maschera – Samuel – Tom
Nabucco – Der Hohepriester des Baal
La Traviata – Baron Duphol
Doktor Grenvil – Marquis von Obigny – Soloist
Don Carlo (Italian version) – Ein Mönch
Rigoletto – Sparafucile
Otello – Montano
Don Carlos (French version) – Ein Mönch
Falstaff – Sir John Falstaff
Vollmer
Gegen die Wand – Cahit
