AJ Glueckert has made an international name for himself, particularly through his interpretations of demanding roles from the Romantic, late Romantic and modern repertoires, including works by Wagner, Strauss, Mahler, Zemlinsky, Szymanowski, Orff, Stravinsky, Janáček, Dvořák and other composers.

In the 2026/27 season, he begins his season as Bacchus in a new production of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Opéra national du Rhin. At Oper Frankfurt, he returns as Herodes in the revival of Strauss’s Salome and will also appear as Manolios in the new production and Frankfurt premiere of Bohuslav Martinů’s The Greek Passion. At the Budapest Wagner Days, he takes on the role of the Steersman in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer. Around the turn of the year, he will once again return to the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, as he has in previous seasons, to perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

During the 2025/26 season, he appeared at Oper Frankfurt, among other engagements, in new productions of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov as Shuysky and Fortner’s Bluthochzeit as Mond. He also sang Bob Boles in Britten’s Peter Grimes, Don José in Bizet’s Carmen and Walter in Weinberg’s Die Passagierin.

In previous seasons, he appeared at his home company in Frankfurt in new productions of Berg’s Lulu as Alwa and Magnard’s Guercœur as Heurtal, as well as in Janáček’s From the House of the Dead as Skuratov. He has also been seen as Görge in the new production of Zemlinsky’s Der Traumgörge, as Walther von Stolzing in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, as Lyonel in Flotow’s Martha, as Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, as the title role in Orff’s Die Kluge and as the title character in Wagner’s Lohengrin.

Further roles in his repertoire include the Emperor in Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten, Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos, the Prince in Dvořák’s Rusalka, Edrisi in Szymanowski’s Król Roger, Count Vaudémont in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, Flamand in Strauss’s Capriccio, Froh in Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Erik in Der fliegende Holländer. He can also be heard as Lyonel in Martha on a CD released by OehmsClassics.

AJ Glueckert is also a regular presence on the concert platform. His repertoire ranges from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem to Doctor Marianus in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. He has worked with orchestras including the Basque National Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Navarra Symphony Orchestra.

Guest engagements have taken him to, among others, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oper Köln, the Budapest Wagner Days, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, San Francisco Opera, The Metropolitan Opera, Oper im Steinbruch in St. Margarethen and the Glyndebourne Festival. He has worked with conductors including Zubin Mehta, Iván Fischer, Daniele Gatti, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Patrick Lange, Robert Treviño, Pablo González and Sebastian Weigle.

As a former Adler Fellow and participant in the Merola Opera Program, AJ Glueckert has a particularly strong connection with San Francisco Opera. He was also a member of the Young Artists Programs of Santa Fe Opera and Utah Opera. A graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he won regional competitions of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions twice.