A winner of the Metropolitan Opera, Liederkranz, Opera Index and Sullivan competitions, and featured by Opera News as a singer to “keep your eye on,” Kurt Link has earned a reputation as one of America’s finest basses, both in opera and oratorio. He consistently earns critical acclaim for a repertoire that embraces major operatic roles from Purcell to Henze, and from Mozart to Wagner. He has performed Baron Ochs, Daland, Figaro, Leporello, Osmin, Sarastro, Ramfis, Colline, Mephistophelesand other major bass roles with companies such as the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, La Monnaie, Santa Fe Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Washington Opera, Dublin Grand Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Florida Grand Opera, Atlanta Opera, New Israeli Opera, the opera companies of Portland, Minnesota, Michigan, St. Louis, Utah, Edmonton and the opera festivals of Chautauqua, Wexford (Ireland), Hong Kong, Wolf Trap, Glimmerglass and Spoleto (USA and Italy).

In the 2007-2008 Season, he returns to the Metropolitan Opera for productions of War and Peace, Macbeth and The Gambler. In addition, he will also perform Lorenzo in I Capuletti et I Montecchi with the Florentine Opera,Timur in Turandot with Opera Birmingham, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, and Bass soloist in Verdi Requiem with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. Most recent engagements from the 2006-2007 Season include Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Utah Symphony & Opera, Frère Laurent in Roméo et Juliette with the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Florentine Opera, Dr. Grenvil in La traviata with El Paso Opera, and Mozart’s Mass in c minor with the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Link has made several recent debuts with Canadian Opera Company as the Commander in The Handmaid’s Tale and with the Hawaii Opera Theatre as Daland in Der Fliegende Holländer. With the Atlanta Opera he has performed Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Daland in Der Fliegende Holländer and Rocco in Fidelio as well as Old Hebrew in Samson et Dalila and Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Opera Pacific, Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Portland Opera, his return to Florida Grand Opera for performances of Le Comte des Grieux in Manon and Varlaam in Boris Godunov, Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier at La Monnaie (Brussels), Banquo in Macbeth with Orlando Opera, Alidoro in La Cenenterola with the Hong Kong Arts Festival, and Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Minnesota Opera.

Widely acclaimed in symphonic works, Mr. Link often performs The Creation, St. Matthew Passion, Missa Solemnis, the Requiem Masses of Verdi, Mozart and Fauré, Bach’s Mass in b minor, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and many other works with the orchestras of Chicago, Philadelphia, Montreal, Tokyo, Baltimore, St. Louis, Atlanta, Florida, Israel, Minneapolis, San Diego, Indianapolis, Charleston, Phoenix, Jacksonville, Aspen, San Antonio, Milwaukee, as well as National Cathedral in Washington. He has appeared as soloist with Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Charles Dutoit, Margaret Hillis, Erich Leinsdorf, Ricardo Muti, Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Slatkin, Sir Georg Solti, Edo de Waart, and David Zinman. Most recent concert engagements include Verdi’s Requiem at the National Cathedral in Washington, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Indianapolis Symphony, Kansas City Symphony and with the Japan Symphony, performances of Mozart’s Requiem in Vienna, Munich, Budapest and Prague with the Dallas Symphony Chorus, and the bass soloist in Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit conducting.

Kurt Link is heard on the GRAMMY Award winning London Records recording of Schoenberg’s Moses and Aaron with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Georg Solti.