He has also performed in various countries in opera productions such as Händel’s ‘Giulio Cesare’ (Cesare), ‘Orlando Furioso’(Orlando), ‘Agrippina’ (Ottone), ‘Flavio’ (Flavio) and ‘Ascanio in Alba (Ascanio), in ‘Apollo et Hyacinthus’ (Apollo) by Mozart, in Britten’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and in the world premières of ‘Gershwin in Blue’ by Chiel Meyering , ‘Winterreise’ by Ingomar Grunauer and ‘Daniela’ (Daniela) by Pablo Escande and has been a guest at leading international festivals such as the ‘Internationale Musik Festwochen’ in Lucerne, ‘The Festival of Early Music’ in Utrecht, ‘Festival Arte Sacro’ in Madrid and ‘Wratislavia Cantans’ in Wroclaw.

In 2007 he will sing the role of Rigo in the Production of ‘Don Quichotte in Sienna Morena’ by Conti at the ‘Opera aan het IJ’ and in 2008 the Sorceress in Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aneas’ at Opera Zuid. 

Together with the famous actress Ina van Faassen he toured throughout the Dutch theaters with ‘Il Virtuoso’, a theatrical play based upon the bestseller novel ‘de Virtuoos’ by Margriet de Moor.
He also was the musical leader of the theater production “Barock” with the balletcompany Introdans from Arnhem.

Since 2004 he regularly worked with the Spanish conductor Angel Recassens who sadly died August 2007. Beside several concerts in a.o. Madrid, Palencia, Salamanca, Leon, Alcalá de Henares and Guenca, he also participated in three recordings: Entre Aventuras y Encantamientos de Don Quichotte, El Vuelo de Icaro and Misa de Requiem ‘de dos bajos’ by Mateo Romero. In July 2008 he will sing with Angel Recassens son, Albert, who has taken up his father’s baton.

Singing songs is one of his greatest passions. Together with his accompanists David van Ooijen, lute/guitar and Vaughan Schlepp, fortepiano/piano he has met with wide acclaim throughout Europe and Japan. At present he tours throughout Holland and Germany with his program ‘About Love’ from his latest solo cd and ‘Forbidden Love’, a performance combining Italian Arias with a short story by his own hand.

Sytse Buwalda voice has been registered on more than 130 cd’s, and he is the only counter-tenor in the world who has recorded all the Kantates by J.S. Bach. Currently there are already  more than 6 million copys sold worldwide.
Other cd recordings include the world première recording of ‘Arminio’ by G.F. Händel with Alan Curtis,  ‘Susanna’ & ‘Theodora,’ by G.F. Händel, conducted by Peter Neumann, two settings of the ‘Stabat Mater’ by Pergolesi (one with soprano Roberta Alexander), Two recordings of the Messiah by G.F. Händel, the Stabat Mater’s by Vivaldi and Tuma, and 3 recordings and DVD of the Matthew Passion by J.S.Bach.
He recorded also 7 solo cd’s. “Sacred Arias”, released in 2004 was for seven weeks the nr. 1 in the Dutch Classic top 50. ‘About Love’, released 2005 reached the nr. 2 position.
“Lust in 4 courses”, released in 2007 reached nr. 6 position in the Classic FM to 20.
May 2008 a live recording of the Mozart Requiem & Coronation Mass performed by the Bach Choir & Orchestra of the Netherlands will be released. The same month he will also record a new c.d. with Camerata Trajectina. The title “moaning virgins” is very promising.
His programm with renaissance “Songs of life & Death” will be recorded live in September 2008 (release oktober). He will be accompanied by David van Ooijen, lute; Freek Borstlap, Gamba and the beautiful soprano Francine van der Heyden.

Tohether with Stephen John Kalinich, a spoken-word artist and lyricist, who has written songs with Brightonian David Courtney, The Beach Boys and many Motown artists and Pablo Escande, a brilliant young composer from Argentina, he will appear in 5 concerts during the Brighton Fringe Festival. The concert will be a ‘magical’ combination of Music, singing and poetry. That’s why we called the program “The Magic Hand”!