During the 2026–27 season, Björn Bürger will appear at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in Benjamin Britten’s  War Requiem, as well as once again as Beckmesser in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, as Marcello in Puccini’s La Bohème, and as Enrico in a new production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.

In recent seasons, Björn Bürger has appeared as “Conte Almaviva,” “The Barber” in R. Strauss’s  Die schweigsame Frau, and “Dr. Falke” at the Bavarian State Opera; as “Fritz/Frank” and “Frédéric” in Delibes’s Lakmé, and “Gaveston/Stranger” in Benjamin’s opera Lessons in Love and Violence at the Zurich Opera House; “Lescaut” in Massenet’s Manon Lescaut and “Dr. Falke” at the Hamburg State Opera; “Prince Andrei Bolkonsky” in Prokofiev’s War and Peace and “Pelléas” in Pelléas et Mélisande at the Grand Théâtre de Genève; “Guglielmo” at the Opéra national du Rhin;  “Don Giovanni” and “Conte Almaviva” in the Da Ponte Trilogy at La Monnaie/De Munt in Brussels; “Papageno” at the Opéra national de Paris; “Don Giovanni” at the Norwegian Opera in Oslo; “Il Barbiere di Siviglia,” “Harlequin,” and “Papageno” at the Glyndebourne Festival; “Il barbiere di Siviglia” at the Staatsoper unter den Linden; “Dr. Falke” at the Volksoper Wien; “Papageno” and “Dr. Falke” at the Opéra de Lausanne; “Wolfram von Eschenbach,” “the King’s Herald,” “Gabriel von Eisenstein,” and “Conte Almaviva” in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, as well as “Il barbiere di Siviglia” at the Semperoper Dresden.

At his home theater—the Stuttgart State Opera, where he has been a member of the ensemble since 2019—he has already performed roles such as “Il barbiere di Siviglia”, “Conte Almaviva”, “Papageno”, “Dr. Falke”, “Don Giovanni,” “Marquis von Posa,” “Belcore” and “Bill” in Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.

After studying at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts in Prof. Hedwig Fassbender’s class, which he completed with distinction, he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Frankfurt Opera from 2013 to 2018, where he performed roles such as Billy Budd, Georg in Arnulf Herrmann’s Der Mieter, Harlequin, Papageno, “Dandini,” “Owen Wingrave,” “Conte Almaviva,” “Frank/Fritz,” and “Pelléas” in Pelléas et Mélisande.

He won first prize at the German National Singing Competition, is the first prize winner of the Emmerich Smola Competition, and first prize winner of the Anneliese Rothenberger Competition.