His operatic repertoire includes AristГ©e and Pluto/ OrphГ©e aux enfers, Berenice/ LвЂ™Ipermestra, the title roles in OrfeoВ by Monteverdi and RameauвЂ™s PlatГ©eВ and Pygmalion, ValГЁre, Damon, Don Carlos/ Les Indes Galantes, MaГ®tre de Musique and MaГ®tre de Chant/ Les FГЄtes VГ©nitiennes, Arnalta and Nutrice/ LвЂ™Incoronazione di Poppea, Eumete/ Il ritorno dвЂ™Ulisse in patria, Lope/ Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena, Basilio and Don Curzio/ Le Nozze di Figaro, Tanzmeister/ Ariadne auf Naxos, Prince Nilski/ IgrokВ by Prokofiev, Adrian/ Der SturmВ by Martin, Mime/ Das RheingoldВ and Siegfried, Hauptmann and Narr/ Wozzeck, PГ©gase, SГ©nГ©chal and PrГЄtre/ LвЂ™Г©cume des joursВ by Denisov (International Diaghilev Award 2013), the title role in Jonah the Naysayer, Arthur Rimbaud/ Nuit de lвЂ™enfer, Zamar/ LegendeВ and Pope Innocenzo XIВ in Theatre of the WorldВ byВ LouisВ Andriessen. He hasВ premieredВ numerousВ works that have been specially composed for him: Calliope Tsoupaki, Martijn Padding, Roderik de Man, Micha Hamel, Elmer SchГ¶nberger, Jacques Bank, AntГіnio Chagas Rosa and Jeff Hamburg as well as Reza Namavar, Joost Kleppe, Anke Brouwer, Bart Visman and Matthias Kadar. He has worked extensively with conductors such as Reinbert de Leeuw, Sylvain Cambreling, John Adams, Marc Albrecht, Avner Biron and Jonathan Stockhammer in works by Igor Stravinsky, Alban Berg, Benjamin Britten, Nicolas Obouchov, Pascal Dusapin, Mauricio Kagel, Witold Lutoslawski, Gottfried von Einem and GyГ¶rgy KurtГЎg. Beekman is also known for his outstanding ability in avant-garde repertoire. He has appeared in repertoire of later centuries with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Daniele Gatti, Sir Mark Elder, IvГЎn Fischer, Claus Peter Flor, Steven Sloane and Ed Spanjaard and with orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, ASKO|SchГ¶nberg and Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi.

He has performed the great German, French and Italian baroque repertoire all over Europe, the United States, Middle East, South Africa and Japan in major concert venues and festivals with conductors such as William Christie, Frans BrГјggen, Leonardo Garcia AlarcГіn, Christophe Rousset, Richard Egarr and Reinhard Goebel. Dutch tenor Marcel Beekman is renowned for his interpretation of operatic character roles as well as early and contemporary music.

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