Bass Tareq Nazmi gained his first stage experiences at the Bavarian State Opera's Opera Studio and later on as a member of the ensemble, where he could be heard in various roles such as Masetto, Speaker, Truffaldino, Nachtwächter, Colline, Publio and Osman. In the 2020-21 season, he sang in a new staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov of Weber's Der Freischütz at the Bavarian State Opera.
On the concert stage, he will make his debut with the New York Philharmonic and sing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna and Lisbon with Manfred Honeck and Lorenzo Viotti conducting.
Highlights of previous seasons include his role debuts as Filippo II in Verdi's Don Carlo at Theater St. Gallen and as Banco in Verdi's Macbeth in Antwerp, a concert tour under the baton of Teodor Currentzis with Verdi's Requiem and Beethoven's Missa solemnis under Kirill Petrenko in Munich. He went on a tour of Europe as Pope Clement VII in a concert version of Benvenuto Cellini, with Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting. In the 2017-18 season, he starred as Bottom in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream in a new staging by Damiano Michieletto at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, in Verdi's Requiem at the Tonhalle Zurich and as Zaccaria in Verdi's Nabucco at Theater St. Gallen, venturing into Verdi repertoire for the first time. Moreover, he made his acclaimed debut under Constantinos Carydis at the 2016 Salzburg Festival, where he returned as Speaker in Mozart's Magic Flute in 2018.
Nazmi's particularly varied concert repertoire consists of works by Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Brahms and Dvořák. He has worked with Washington National Symphony Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach, the Orchestre de Paris and Daniel Harding, performed in Brahms' Requiem in San Sebastian under Jukka-Pekka Saraste and was a soloist in Mozart's Requiem with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester under Manfred Honeck in Berlin.
Recitals, too, continue to feature more prominently in his calendar, with performances with pianist Gerold Huber in Munich, Cologne, Ingolstadt, at the Schubertiade Hohenems and at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall.
