ARTIST OVERVIEW - ARTIST PROFILE

Artist Profile

Ólafur Sigurdarson - Profile picture
© Isolde Stein-Leibold

Baritone

Ólafur Sigurdarson

"Olafur Sigurdarson possesses a very strong and expressive voice, boasting a wide vocal range, with a colorful palette..."
- Operawire

Represented by

Marcin Kopec
marcin@tact4art.com
+44 79 81 91 88 14

Anna Kovtun
anna@tact4art.com

Representation

Worldwide Exclusive


Now on - Ólafur Sigurdarson - Back to Overview   BACK TO ARTISTS OVERVIEW
Upcoming Past
Oct 2024
20.
19:00

19:00

Christoph Gedschold, Conductor
Michiel Dijkema, Stage Director

Oct 2024
28.
19:30

19:30

Simona Young/Alexander Soddy, Conductor
David McVicar, Stage Director

Oct 2024
31.
19:30

19:30

Simona Young/Alexander Soddy, Conductor
David McVicar, Stage Director

SHOW MORE
Show more of Ólafurs calendar items
Oct 2024
4.
19:00

19:00

Christoph Gedschold, Conductor
Michiel Dijkema, Stage Director

Sep 2024
29.
19:00

19:00

Christoph Gedschold, Conductor
Michiel Dijkema, Stage Director

Sep 2024
15.
19:00

19:00

Christoph Gedschold, Conductor
Michiel Dijkema, Stage Director

SHOW MORE
Show more of Ólafurs calendar items

Biography Highlights

 
 

Upcoming & Recent

Return to Teatro alla Scala as Alberich Siegfried, return to the Bayreuther Festspiele and Gran Teatre del Liceu as Telramund Lohengrin, to Oper Leipzig as Holländer Der fliegende Holländer and Baron Scarpia Tosca, debut with Deutsche Oper Berlin as Simon Violanta, Ópera Nacional de Chile as Holländer Der fliegende Holländer, return to the Prague National Theatre as title role in Macbeth and Bayreuther Festspiele as Alberich Der Ring des Nibelungen and Kurwenal Tristan und Isolde.

 
 

Previous

Debut as Captain Bastrode Peter Grimes at the Teatro alla Scala, return to the Bayreuther Festspiele as Alberich Der Ring des Nibelungen, Telramund Lohengrin with Gran Teatre del Liceu, return to Oper Leipzig as Rigoletto, return to the Bayreuther Festspiele as Alberich Der Ring des Nibelungen and Kurwenal Tristan und Isolde, return to Oper Leipzig as Rigoletto, to the Prague National Theatre with Rigoletto and Macbeth, Telramund Lohengrin at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Klingsor Parsifal with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Rigoletto and Alberich Götterdämmerung with the Gothenburg Opera, Scarpia Tosca, Der fliegende Holländer at Oper Leipzig, Captain Balstrode Peter Grimes, Wozzeck, Miller Luisa Miller with the English National Opera.

 
 

Portraits

Ólafur Sigurdarson - Picture nr #32
© Isolde Stein-Leibold

Alberich

Wagner -Rheingold

Alberich

Wagner -Rheingold

Erhebe dich...

Wagner - Lohengrin

Erhebe dich...

Wagner - Lohengrin

 

Reviews & Press

 
 

Göteborgs Operan - Wagner - Siegfried = Alberich

Alberich, clearly Wotan’s vagrant-brother, is the astonishing Icelandic baritone Olafur Sigurdarson, here on top form in his exchanges with a tinnie-toting Wotan…
 

Opera Now

Alberich

Alberich, clearly Wotan’s vagrant-brother, is the astonishing Icelandic baritone Olafur Sigurdarson, here on top form in his exchanges with a tinnie-toting Wotan…
 

Opera Now

Wagner, R. - Das Rheingold - Alberich

Thus the most convincing performance was reserved for Olafur Sigurdarson, who is able to let the pain behind all his Alberich's desire for revenge shimmer through grippingly.
 

- Von Stefan Dosch , Augsburger Allgemeine

Read this article

...a superlative cast: Olafur Sigurdarson's stentorian, anguished Alberich.
 

- Nicholas Kenyon , The Telegraph

Read this article

Olafur Sigurdarson garnered the greatest cheers from the audience as Alberich, probably rightly so. His was certainly an outstanding performance, seemingly instinctively alert to the dramatic reality and implications of Wagner's particularly dialectical blend of verse, music, and gesture.
 

- Mark Berry , Boulezian

Read this article

SHOW MORE
View more of Ólafurs press articles

Göteborgs Operan - Wagner - Siegfried - Alberich

Alberich, clearly Wotan’s vagrant-brother, is the astonishing Icelandic baritone Olafur Sigurdarson, here on top form in his exchanges with a tinnie-toting Wotan…
 

Opera Now

Wexford Festival Opera - Massenet - Don Quichotte - Sancho

Olafur Sigurdarson ist darstellerisch und stimmlich eine Idealbesetzung für den Knappen Sancho Panza. Mit großem Spielwitz kommentiert er einerseits die Zweifel an den hehren Träumen seines Herrn, weist aber andererseits das Volk, das sich über Don Quichottes seltsames Wesen lustig macht, beherzt und entschieden in seine Schranken. Mit beweglichem Bariton glänzt Sigurdarson und beherrscht dabei genauso einen leichten Parlando-Ton wie große dramatische Ausbrüche. Ein Höhepunkt des Abends stellt seine Arie im zweiten Akt dar, wenn er sein allgemeines Misstrauen gegenüber Frauen zum Ausdruck bringt. Janelidze verfügt mit seinem Bass über eine markante Tiefe, die sich auch mühelos in baritonale Höhen schwingt. Ihm gelingt es, diesen "Ritter der traurigen Gestalt" in keinem Moment der Lächerlichkeit preiszugeben, auch wenn er den Spott der anderen auf sich zieht.
 

- Thomas Molke , Online Musik Magazin

Read this article

Ólafur Sigurdarson was a well-rounded Sancho Panza, his robust baritone excellent at the comedy routines but his finest moment came when he vehemently upbraids the crowd for mocking Don Quichotte after Dulcinée’s rejection.
 

- Mark Pullinger, , Bachtrack

Read this article

Icelandic baritone, Olafur Sigurdarson, did a brilliant job mining the humour in the score.  However, there was a startling and thrilling change in Act IV when he upbraided the crowd for laughing at Don Quichotte.  This was powerful, unbridled singing which had an enormous emotional impact.  In the final act he showed real affection and tenderness for his dying master.  
 

- Robert Beattie , Seen and Heard International

Read this article