Peixin Chen
About this Artist
Peixin Chen is recognized for his majestically resonant bass voice and a keen dramatic instinct that he brings to a wide range of roles on the international opera stage. His repertoire spans from the comic characters of Donizetti, Mozart, and Rossini to the strong and serious roles of Puccini, Verdi, and Wagner. Peixin Chen has worked with an illustrious array of conductors and directors including Harry Bicket, James Conlon, Eun Sun Kim, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Lorin Maazel, Enrique Mazzola, Zubin Mehta, Giancarlo del Monaco, André s Orozco-Estrada, Michel Plasson, David Pountney, James Robinson, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Peter Sellars, Patrick Summers, Krzysztof Urbań ski, and Francesca Zambello.
Performances of the 2024-25 season include Sarastro in The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera and Atlanta Opera, Colline in La bohème at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore for a debut at Florida Grand Opera, and Sparafucile in Rigoletto at Los Angeles Opera.
The bass made his debut at the Salzburger Festspiele playing the lead role of The General in a new production by Peter Sellars of Prokofiev’s The Gambler conducted by Timur Zangiev and other highlights of the 2023-24 season included a debut at the Teatro Real as Sparafucile in Rigoletto conducted by Nicola Luisotti, a return engagement with Los Angeles Opera as Commendatore in Don Giovanni led by Music Director James Conlon, and a debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a fully- staged presentation of Das Rheingold under the baton of Music Director Gustavo Dudamel. Additional highlights included Turandot both at the Metropolitan Opera led by Oksana Lyniv and Marco Armiliato and at Washington National Opera conducted by Speranza Scappucci.
Peixin Chen has sung Sarastro in The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera, Fasolt in Das Rheingold both at Seattle Opera and The Dallas Opera, and Colline in La bohème in a return engagement with Washington National Opera. He has bowed as Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Cincinnati Opera, and has made a Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in the company’s Sir David McVicar new production premiere of the French, five act version of Verdi's Don Carlos singing the Monk and covering Philippe II.