US-born bass-baritone Robert Bork began his training in the USA and completed his studies with distinction in Germany. His musical career began as a member of the Cologne Opera ensemble.

Since then, guest engagements have taken him to renowned venues worldwide, including the Teatro alla Scala, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, ​​the Palau de les Arts Valencia, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Hamburg State Opera, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the Teatro la Fenice, the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, the Royal Flemish Opera in Antwerp, the Netherlands Opera, and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
There he worked with conductors such as Kent Nagano, Valery Gergiev, Marc Minkowski, Pinchas Steinberg, James Conlon, Axel Kober, Simone Young, Oksana Lyniv, Sebastian Weigle, Hartmut Haenchen, Ivan Fischer, Juraj Valčuha, and Ingo Metzmacher.

His wide-ranging repertoire includes, among others, Jochanaan/Salome, Holländer/The Flying Dutchman, Balstrode/Peter Grimes, Don Carlo/La Forza del Destino, Fritz Kothner/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Klingsor/Parsifal, Faninal/Der Rosenkavalier, Musiklehrer/Ariadne auf Naxos, Kaspar/Der Freischütz, Tierbändiger, ein Athlet/Lulu, Mephisto/Faust, and Simon in Korngold’s Violanta.

Highlights of recent seasons have included Faninal/Der Rosenkavalier in Los Angeles under Kent Nagano, Albert/Werther and Turnage’s Greek at the Munich Opera Festival, Balstrode/Peter Grimes at the Palau de les Arts Valencia, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and the Cologne Opera, Wotan/Die Walküre in Bari and Kassel, Klingsor/Parsifal in Turku, Widmann’s Babylon/Priesterkönig at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam under Markus Stenz, as well as Gunter in Wagner’s Ring in Amsterdam and Antwerp, Kurwenal/Tristan und Isolde in Bari, Créon/Oedipus Rex in Milan, and Donner/Das Rheingold in Beijing. He also played the leading role of Ben Ata in the world premiere of Philip Glass’s Marriage of Zones Three, Four and Five.

Robert Bork is also a welcome guest on the concert stage. His wide-ranging repertoire includes key works from the Baroque to the present day, from J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Mass in B Minor to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, as well as Henze’s The Raft of the Medusa and Bernstein’s Candide with the Hamburg Philharmonic and the Semperoper Dresden. In recent seasons, he has performed with the Orchestre du Capitole in Toulouse, the Dortmund and Flensburg Philharmonics, and Britten’s War Requiem in Milan.