British-Indian tenor Caspar Singh was Principal Mozart Tenor at the Komische Oper Berlin from 2022 to 2024, having previously been an ensemble member of the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich. He trained at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, completing his training at the Bayerische Staatsoper’s Opernstudio.
Highlights of Singh’s 2026/27 season include his company and role debut for Opera North as Lensky in a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, directed by Patrick Nolan and conducted by Garry Walker. He also returns to English National Opera as Yonas in a new production of Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater, directed by Annilese Miskimmon and conducted by André de Ridder. He makes a further company debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona as Lucas in Calixto Bieto’s production of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, conducted by the composer, and returns to the Komische Oper to reprise the role of Tamino in Barrie Kosky’s production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte conducted by Marit Strindlund.
On the concert platform this season, he performs Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ at the Berlin Philharmonie with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Maxime Pascal, joins the Münchner Rundfunkorchester at Munich’s Prinzregententheater for a performance of de Joncières’s Lancelot conducted by Leo Hussain, and sings the role of San Giovanni Evangelista in Handel’s La resurrezione in performances at the Friedenskirche Potsdam with the Kammerakademie Potsdam conducted by Konrad Junghänel. UK concert appearances this season include Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang at London’s Barbican Centre with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alain Altinoglu, Orff’s Carmina Burana at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Sir James MacMillan and Mozart’s Requiem at Paisley Abbey and Usher Hall with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eric Whitacre.
Last season, Singh made his company debut for English National Opera in the title role of Britten’s Albert Herring directed by Antony McDonald and conducted by Daniel Cohen. He also returned to the Bayerische Staatsoper as Jaquino in Beethoven’s Fidelio and to Glyndebourne as both Apollo in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Scaramuccio in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, which was also performed at the 2026 BBC Proms. In 2024/25, he made house debuts at both Malmö Opera and Norwegian Opera as Ferrando in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte and at Grange Park Opera as Shah Jahan in the world premiere of sitarist Nishat Khan's opera Taj Mahal directed by Stephen Medcalf. For the 2024 Glyndebourne Festival he sang Ein junger Seeman/Ein Hirt in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, having made his festival debut the previous year as Lysander in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He revisited the role of Lysander for Garsington Opera in 2024, including a semi-staged performance at the Royal Albert Hall which marked his BBC Proms debut.
Singh’s roles at the Komische Oper included Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zaubeflöte, Ferrando, Hyllus in Handel’s Hercules, Dalands in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer, Fenton in Verdi’s Falstaff and Laerte in Thomas’s Hamlet. He has also performed Male Chorus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia with the Kammerakademie Potsdam.
Roles during his time as an ensemble member of the Bayerische Staatsoper included Gherardo in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Pásek in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen, Arturo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Dritter Knappe in Wagner’s Parsifal, Hirte in Tristan und Isolde, Dominik in Haas’s Thomas, Wilhelm Meister in Thomas’s Mignon, Edmondo in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, Borsa in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Der Haushofmeister bei Faninal in Stauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Scaramuccio in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, the Prince in Hans Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen, Oberpriester Poseidons in Mozart’s Idomeneo and Augustin Moser in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger.
Recent notable concert highlights include Mozart’s Requiem at London’s Barbican Centre and Vaughan Williams’s Sancta Civitas at the 2025 First Night of The Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo, the role of Tony in Bernstein’s West Side Story in San Sebastián with the Basque National Orchestra conducted by Clark Rundell, and a staged production of Mozart’s Requiem with the Rundfunkchor Berlin conducted by Gijs Leenaars. He has performed Carmina Burana with both the ORF Radio-Sinfonieorchester Wien conducted by Tobias Wögerer and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bassem Akiki, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with both the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Simon Halsey and the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Kirill Petrenko, First Priest in Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero, again with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko, and Handel’s Messiah with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Clemens Schuldt.
A keen recitalist, Singh has performed Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin on a UK recital tour with pianist Sholto Kynoch for Oxford Lieder and appeared in at the Munich Opera Festival performing works including Britten’s Winter Words and Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo.