Tenor Composer

... while Linard Vrielink, as Asle, convincingly radiated the nervous tension that swiftly tips the overprotective young father into delinquence and destruction. His soaring, confident tenor illuminated the auditorium from start to finish ...

 bachtrack.com Grand Theâtre de Genève, March 2022

... Tenor Linard Vrielink expresses Asle's rage with a power that blossoms in the high range ...

diapasonmag.fr Grand Theâtre de Genève, March 2022

... Asle is played by the Dutch tenor Linard Vrielink, with a clear and pleasantly warm tone, deliberately a little abrupt to portray the nervousness of his character. Behind a modestly desperate and relatively endearing figure, there is no dark and fatally dangerous interiority. His diction is always clear, giving him a balanced presence. He is particularly alert between the lyrical parts, spoken sung, spoken rhythmic or just spoken, always with ease, even evidence ...

olyrix.com Grand Theâtre de Genève, March 2022

... The score is helped along by a superlative cast. As the ill-fated young lovers, Linard Vrielink and Victoria Randem are exquisite — Vrielink all youthful lyricism with an undertone of seething violence ...

ft.com, Eötvös, Sleepless - Staatsoper Berlin, November 2021

... With his tenor voice, Linard Vrielink captures the tension between aggression against the outside world and Asle's glowing love for Alida very well ...

Frankfurter Allgemeine, P. Eötvös, Sleepless - Staatsoper Berlin, November 2021

 ... Victoria Randem [...] and Linard Vrielink equip the couple, who appear in everyday clothes, with youthful, natural voices and theatrical vigour. They sing effortlessly in the highest registers, remain understandable in the lyrical passages as well as in the action moments.[...] these two are the discovery of the evening ...

Tagesspiegel, P. Eötvös, Sleepless - Staatsoper Berlin, November 2021 

... and especially Linard Vrielink (a Shepherd), for his clear timbre, receive deserved applause ...

olyrix.com, Wagner, Tristan und Isolde - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, July 2021

... Lovely how Linard Vrielink gives the drunken soldiers trying to sneak into Bartolo's house. Stunning when he then succeeds in the role of the supposed music teacher[...] The voices of the singers from the opera studio of the Bregenz Festival convince without exception with their carrying capacity and memorable timbre ...

ORF.at, Bregenzer Festspiele - G. Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia, August 2018 

... only Boaz Daniel’s Kurwenal and Linard Vrielink’s young shepherd are able to provide brief interludes of pure beauty... 

 Financial Times, R. Wagner, Tristan und Isolde - Staatsoper Berlin, February 2018