Biography

Canadian tenor Nathan Haller is a member of the ensemble at the Zurich Opera House. In the 2024/25 season, he sings the role of the Tanzmeister in Ariadne auf Naxos (conductor: Markus Poschner, director: Andreas Homoki), Andrès in Les contes d'Hoffmann (conductor: Antonino Fogliani, director: Andreas Homoki), 1st Jew in Salome (conductor: Simone Young, direction: Andreas Homoki), Victorin in Die tote Stadt (direction: Lorenzo Viotti, direction: Dmitri Tcherniakov), Raoul de St. Brioche in Die lustige Witwe (direction: Ben Glassberg, direction: Barrie Kosky) and Goro in Madama Butterfly (direction: Marco Armiliato, direction: Ted Huffman). 

Most recently, he appeared in Zurich as Mercure in Rameau's Platée (conductor: Emmanuelle Haïm, director: Jetske Mijnssen), as Gobin and Adolfo in the celebrated Swiss premiere of Puccini's La Rondine (conductor : Marco Armiliato, director: Christof Loy) and as Boni in Die Csárdásfürstin (conductor: Lorenzo Viotti, director: Jan Philipp Gloger) as well as in Sebastian Baumgartes's production of Turandot as Pong. He also appeared in this role as a guest at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Other conductors who have influenced him musically include Marc Albrecht, William Christie, Riccardo Minasi, Gianandrea Noseda and Markus Poschner. He has appeared as a guest at the Bavarian State Opera, Theater Basel, Malmö Opera, Teatro Massimo Palermo and the Wiener Volksoper. 

His repertoire of staged roles also includes Bardolfo in Falstaff, Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sir Hervey in Anna Bolena, Count Elemer in Arabella, Count Albert in Die tote Stadt, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Oronte in Alcina, Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Tamino in The Magic Flute and Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream. 

As a concert singer, he has performed in stadium concerts in the BBC Arena (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) and Scotiabank Place (Ottawa, Canada). His concert experiences include performances of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Purcell's Ode to St. Cecilia, Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Handel's Messiah and La Resurrezione. 

Nathan Haller is a graduate of the Julliard School in New York, where he successfully completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in music.