Biography of Nathan Haller

Canadian tenor Nathan Haller has been an ensemble member of the prestigious Opernhaus Zürich since the 2021/22 season. In the 2023/24 season, he embarks on the new productions of Rameau’s Platée in the role of Mercure, directed by Jetske Mijnssen and under the baton of Emmanuelle Haïm; Raoul de Saint-Brioche in Lehár’s Die Lustige Witwe directed by Barrie Kosky, and conducted by Patrick Hahn; and Gobin and Adolfo in the celebrated Swiss premiere of Puccini’s La Rondine, directed by Christof Loy and conducted by Marco Armiliato. Also, Haller performs in the revivals of Die Csárdásfürstin conducted by Lorenzo Viotti as Boni, and of Sebastian Baumgarten’s production of Turandot as Pong, both at Opernhaus Zürich. He also sings the Pong as a guest at Deutsche Oper am Rhein. 

In the previous season 2022/23, Haller sang the following roles at Opernhaus Zürich: Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail conducted by Riccardo Minasi, Triquet in Eugene Onegin, Erster Jude in Salome, Pong in a new production of Turandot conducted by Marc Albrecht. He also performed as a guest at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, singing Pong in Turandot, and Bardolfo in Falstaff. 

2021/22 started off with Haller’s acclaimed debut as Lysander in the classic Peter Hall production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Malmö Opera. In his first season as an ensemble member at Opernhaus Zürich, he sang the roles of Telémachos in the world premiere of Leonard Evers’ newly commissioned Die Odyssee, Sir Hervey in David Alden’s new production of Anna Bolena, Graf Elemer in Arabella conducted by Markus Poschner, and Bardolfo in Falstaff conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. As a guest, Haller sang the solo tenor role in Benedikt von Peter’s staged Matthäus-Passion. 

At the beginning of 2020, Haller performed in Graham Vick’s Parsifal at Teatro Massimo Palermo as 3. Knappe. In that same year of disruption, he had been due to perform Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Malmö Opera, and Bardolfo in Falstaff at Bayerische Staatsoper. At Opernhaus Zürich, he had been scheduled to sing 7. Diener in Capriccio, and the Verrückter Hutmacher in Nadja Loschky’s new production Alice im Wunderland.

Haller has also performed as a guest at Opernhaus Zürich, where he played the title role of Schneiderlein in Mitterer’s modern electronic opera Das Tapfere Schneiderlein in 2020/21. In 2018/19, he sang 1st Senator/1st Citizen/3rd Young Man in a Barrie Kosky production of Schreker's Die Gezeichneten and Albazar in Jan Philipp Gloger’s new production of Il turco in Italia. He also made his Vienna Volksoper debut as Enoch Snow in Carousel, Graf Albert in a new production of Korngold's Die tote Stadt at the Nederlandse Reisopera, and appeared as Alfred in a new production of Die Fledermaus at Kurtheater Baden.  

In the 2017/18 season, Nathan Haller performed as a guest at Theater Basel in the role of Oronte in a revival of Alcina directed by Lydia Steier, and debuted with the Neue Oper Wien as François in a new production of Leonard Bernstein’s A Quiet Place.

In the 2016/17 season, he made his house debut at the Israeli Opera as Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Among many other roles at Theater Basel, where he was part of the opera studio during the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons, Nathan Haller made his role debuts as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Romeo in Blacher’s Romeo und Julia, and Kuska in Khovanshchina.

Haller has performed at the New York Festival of Song, which took place at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Peter Jay Sharp Theater. He has headlined a wide variety of concert work around the world in between his busy stage opera career, most notably stadium concerts at the BBC Arena (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), and Scotiabank Place (Ottawa, Canada). His concert experience includes performances of Bach’s Matthäus-Passion, Purcell’s Hail to St. Cecilia, Charpentier’s Actéon, Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Handel’s Messiah and La Resurrezione with William Christie.

Nathan Haller is a graduate of The Julliard School in New York, where he successfully received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in music.