Peixin Chen
The bass Peixin Chen has made a name for himself in roles by Mozart, Donizetti, Rossini, Puccini, Verdi and Wagner. He has worked with conductors including Marco Armiliato, Harry Bicket, James Conlon, Eun Sun Kim, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Oksana Lyniv, Lorin Maazel, Enrique Mazzola, Zubin Mehta, Giancarlo del Monaco, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Patrick Summers, Michel Plasson, Krzysztof Urbański, Edo de Waart and Jaap van Zweden.
His engagements during the 2023/24 season include Sparafucile (Rigoletto) at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Commendatore (Don Giovanni) at the Los Angeles Opera, his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra as Fafner (Das Rheingold) under Gustavo Dudamel and Timur (Turandot) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Washington National Opera.
In the 2022/23 season he sang Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) at the Met, Fasolt (Das Rheingold) at the Seattle Opera and at the Dallas Opera, Colline (La bohème) in Washington, Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Cincinnati Opera and the Monk (Don Carlos) at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Other recent highlights have included Joe (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Masetto (Don Giovanni) and Bonze (Madama Butterfly) at the Met, Sparafucile at the Santa Fe Opera and at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Sarastro and Colline for the Opera Philadelphia, Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore) in Washngton and Jov in Dvořák’s Dmitrij at the Bard SummerScape Opera.
Peixin Chen graduated from the Opera Studio of the Houston Grand Opera, where he participated in productions of Le nozze di Figaro, Turandot, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Norma, Aida, Il trovatore, Die Zauberflöte and Die Walküre.
On the concert platform his appearances include Verdi’s Requiem with the Orchestra of the Houston Grand Opera, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Symphony Orchestra.