German born and Calgary based Bass-Baritone Uwe Dambruch studied voice with known dramatic Mezzo-Soprano Evelyn Dalberg in Duesseldorf.

His many opera engagement have included Papageno in The Magic Flute, the Father in Haensel und Gretel in Duesseldorf, the Friar in Don Carlos at the Baden State Opera Karlsruhe, the 1st Soldier in Salome for the Frankfurt Opera and his US debut as Mandarin in the Florentine Opera production of Turandot in Milwaukee.

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In the Cannes Award Winning Film Wahnfried, produced for German cinema theater and television, he made a cameo appearance and sang Wagnerian excerpts.

He also sang a programm of opera arias and scenes with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan.

 

Uwe Dambruchs’s Canadian debut was with the Vancouver Opera as Jake Wallace in La Fanciulla del West.

Engagements followed as the Mandarin in Turandot and the Loudspeaker in The Emperor of Atlantis for the Edmonton Opera, Melot in Tristan und Isolde for the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee, the Mandarin in Turandot, the 1st Soldier in Salome and Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville for The North Carolina Opera Company.

 

He sang Angelotti/Sciarrone in Tosca for Opera Hamilton, and made his Calgary Opera debut as Monterone/Sparafucile in the company’s new Rigoletto production.

He appeared in 2009 in Calgary as Major-Domo in Ariadne auf Naxos and made his Pacific Opera debut in Victoria as Sarastro in the company’s new production of The Magic Flute and he made also his debut with Orchestra London.

 

In the season of 2009/10 he returned to Edmonton Opera to perform the roles of Monterone/Sparafucile in Rigoletto and he was also part of the Edmonton Opera / Alberta Ballet collaboration in Kurt Weil’s The Seven Deadly Sins.

In the Fall 2010 he performed the role of Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Calgary Opera and he was also part of a studend  scholarship fundraising event at Mount Royal University in Calgary

 

In 2012 he gave a masterclasses at the Medicine Hat College and at Opera Nuova in Edmonton and returned to Calgary Opera’s new production of Otello to sing the role of Lodovico.

He returned 2013 to Edmonton Opera as 1st Soldier in Richard Strauss’s Salome and in 2014 appeard with Calgary Concert Opera as Sparafucile in Rigoletto.

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In the 2014 Pacific Opera Victoria’s production of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold – which was the first standalone production in Canada since the opera premiered in 1869 – he performed the role of Fasolt.

With the Calgary Concert Opera he sang Alvise Badoero in Amilcare Poncielli’s La Gioconda.

 

In April 2016 he performed the role of Sarastro in The Magic Flute with Calgary Opera. With Sarastro he also made his debut with Opera Classica Europe (the largest open air summer opera festival in Germany) at the amphitheater at the Loreley, Germany.

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2017 marked his debut as Baron Ochs in Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier in concert with Opera by Request in Toronto.

 

He returned in 2018 to Calgary Opera as the Duke of Verona in Charles Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette and in 2019

he appeared as the Old Hebrew in Samson et Dalila with the Calgary Concert Opera Company. In 2020 he made his debut with the Civic Symphony Orchestra at the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary.

In 2023 he performed the role of Prince de Bouillon in Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur with the Calgary Concert Opera Company.