Born in Copenhagen, since 1996 the bass-baritone Johan Reuter has been a member of the Royal Danish Opera, where his rôles have included Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Masetto (Don Giovanni), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Kilian (Der Freischütz), Heerrufer (Lohengrin), Don Prudenzio/Don Alvaro (Il viaggio a Reims), Tomsky (Pique Dame), Olvier (Capriccio), Henrik (Maskarade), Alex Bloch (I-K-O-N, by John Frandsen), Mandryka (Arabella), Wotan and Donner (Das Rheingold), and Pantalone (L’amour des trois oranges).

He sang in the first performance of Poul Ruders’ Kafka’s Trial and took the title rôle in Verdi’s Macbeth. Johan Reuter has appeared in oratorios and opera performances in concert with all the important Danish orchestras and worked with conductors including Ulf Schirmer, Marek Janowski, Peter Schreier and Marcello Viotti. He has appeared at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Staatsoper Hamburg, in Frankfurt and in Essen.

In 2005 he made his début at the Paris Opéra-Bastille, followed by his début at the Salzburg Festival and performances in Madrid. The year 2006 brought appearances at Covent Garden in the title rôle of Wozzeck and further engagements in a busy international career. His recordings include Kunzen’s Holger Danske with Thomas Dausgaard for Dacapo/Marco Polo, (US GRAMMY® nomination), Nielsen’s Maskarade with Ulf Schirmer and the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra for Decca (GRAMMY Award), songs with orchestra by Delius conducted by Bo Holten with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, and C.E.F. Weyse’s Sovedrikken, as well as Schubert’s Winterreise in Danish, Liszt’s oratorio Via Crucis andBo Holten’s South Jutland Summer Symphony.