Biography

Lorin Wey continues as an ensemble member of Theater Bielefeld in 2024/25 where he will be performing Mitch in A. Previns “A Streetcar Named Desire”, Andrès/Cochenille/Pitichinaccio/Frantz in Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann”, Yannakos in Martinu’s “The Greek Passion”, Der Verrückte Hutmacher in P. Valtinoni’s “Alice im Wunderland” and Evangelist in Bach’s “St. John Passion”.

Lorin Wey was born into a Swiss-American family of musicians in Bern, Switzerland in 1990. After beginning his musical education with the Vienna Boys’ Choir and completing his Bachelor of Arts in Musicology with distinction, he studied solo singing as well as Lied and oratorio at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. 

First engagements included regular guesting at the Bühne Baden and the Neue Oper Wien (including Meletos in Krenek’s „Pallas Athene weint“ or Ivan in Shostakovich‘s „The Nose“).

International guest appearances led him to different concert halls, festivals and opera theaters in Europe, such as the MÜPA Budapest, the Tiroler Festspiele Erl (as Pierre in G. Schedl’s Chamber Opera „Pierre et Luce“) and the Opera National de Lorraine in Nancy (as Tanzmeister in David Hermann’s production of R. Strauss „Ariadne auf Naxos“).

An enthusiast of modern music, Lorin Wey performed leading roles in many contemporary operas, for example Adam in P. Eötvös’ “Paradise Reloaded: Lilith”, Kaufmann in W. Rihm’s „Jakob Lenz“, Reinhold in the world premiere of V. & K. Batti’s “Berlin Alexanderplatz”, Father Grenville in J. Heggie’s „Dead Man Walking“, Lawyer in H. Birtwistle’s “Punch and Judy”, Bruder in the world premiere of E. Milch-Sheriff’s “Baruchs Schweigen”, 2. Künder in the world premiere of G. Mancusi’s “In Gottes Namen’ and Harry King in S. MacRae’s “Anthropocene”. 

The tenor joined the ensemble of Theater Bielefeld in the 2017/18 season and has sung various roles since (including Mime in Wagner’s „Das Rheingold“, Pluto in Offenbach’s „Orpheus in der Unterwelt“, Bajazet in Händel’s “Tamerlano”, Monostatos in Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte”, Basilio in Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”, Pedrillo in Mozart’s “Die Entführung aus dem Serail”, Pasquale in Haydn’s “Orlando Paladino”, Freddy in F. Loewe’s “My Fair Lady”, Eisenstein in J. Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus”, Dancairo in Bizet’s “Carmen”, Dr. Cajus in Verdi’s “Falstaff” and Kudrjasch in L. Janacek’s “Katja Kabanova”). 

Additionally, he regularly performs as a Concert- & Liedsänger, including recitals of the Schubert song cycles “Die Schöne Müllerin”, “Die Winterreise” and “Schwanengesang” and a wide range of classical concert repertoire (such as performances of Mendelssohn’s “Lobgesang”, Haydn’s “Die Schöpfung” & “Die Jahreszeiten”, Beethoven’s “Symphonie Nr.9”, Mozart’s “Requiem” and Evangelist in Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion”).