Stage & Concert

Performances & Press

Booking entertainment usually means taking someone's word for it. This page exists so you don't have to: the roles, the seasons, and what the critics wrote about the same performer who shows up at your event.

Derek Rue performing on stage

On Stage Now · 2026

This season.

  • 2026 Season
    Fiddler on the Roof
    Bock · Role of Motel · Theater Trier
  • 2026 Season
    Die Entführung aus dem Serail
    Mozart · Role of Pedrillo · Theater Trier

Selected Performances

Recent seasons.

2025 / 26
6th Symphony Concert — French Baroque
Works of Rameau · Featured Soloist · Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Trier, cond. Wouter Padberg
Theater Trier
2024 / 25
Così fan tutte
Mozart · Ferrando
Theater Trier
Ariadne auf Naxos
R. Strauss · Tanzmeister & Brighella
Theater Trier
2024
Brokeback Mountain
Wuorinen · Jack Twist
Theater Trier
Das Liebesverbot
Wagner · Luzio
Opernbühne Maxlrain Festival
2023
Die Fledermaus
J. Strauss · Alfred
Theater Trier
Falstaff
Verdi · Fenton
Theater Trier
2022
The Rake's Progress
Stravinsky · Tom Rakewell (title role)
Theater Trier
Peter Grimes
Britten · Bob Boles
Theater Trier
Die Comedian Harmonists
Ari Leschnikoff
Theater Trier
2020 – 21
Die lustige Witwe
Lehár · Camille de Rossillon
Theater Trier
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Rossini · Conte Almaviva
Theater Trier
L'incoronazione di Poppea
Monteverdi · Lucano
Theater Trier

In the Press

What the critics wrote.

"With fire and virtuosic brilliance."

Walther Prokop · OVB Heimatzeitungen · 8 July 2024

Das Liebesverbot · Oper Maxlrain  ·  translated from German

"A delight throughout: Einat Aronstein and Derek Rue as the young lovers."

Alexander Scheidweiler · Lokalo · 15 Oct 2023

Falstaff · Theater Trier  ·  translated from German

"With the imposing force of a trumpet call."

Alexander Scheidweiler · Lokalo · 8 Feb 2026

Die Entführung aus dem Serail · Theater Trier  ·  translated from German

"Derek Rue displays an astonishing vocal range."

Alexander Scheidweiler · Lokalo · 14 Sept 2025

The Turn of the Screw · Theater Trier  ·  translated from German

"Derek Rue lends the title role a voice as sleek as it is agile."

Michael Kaminski · Die Deutsche Bühne · 11 Sept 2022

The Rake's Progress · Theater Trier  ·  translated from German

"Derek Rue in the role of Jack Twist is the agile, talkative rodeo rider."

Ursula Hartlapp-Lindemeyer · Das Opernmagazin · 24 Apr 2024

Brokeback Mountain · Theater Trier  ·  translated from German

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