The tenor Mert Sungu studied at the Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul and at the School of Italian Opera of the Bologna Teatro Comunale. From 2012 to 2014 he was a member of the youth ensemble of Dresden Semperoper and made his debut as Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, tackling further principal roles during 2014–16 at the Semperoper.

Guest engagements brought performances at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, in Pavia, Como, Brescia, Bologna and the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, and as Peter Quint in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw at the State Opera in Istanbul. In 2017 he appeared in Les Pêcheurs de perles in Trieste and in Il viaggio a Reims in Rome.

For more information, visit www.mertsungu.com.