"Olafur Sigurdarson possesses a very strong and expressive voice, boasting a wide vocal range, with a colorful palette..."
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Pietari Inkinen, Conductor
Valentin Schwarz, Stage Director
Pietari Inkinen, Conductor
Valentin Schwarz, Stage Director
Pietari Inkinen, Conductor
Valentin Schwarz, Stage Director
Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Conductor
Christof Loy Georg Zlabinger, Stage Director
Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Conductor
Christof Loy Georg Zlabinger, Stage Director
Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Conductor
Christof Loy Georg Zlabinger, Stage Director
House debut as Captain Balstrode Peter Grimes Teatro alla Scala, return to Bayreuth Festival in The Ring Cycle as Alberich, Telramund Lohengrin at Grand Theatre Liceu in Barcelona, Alberich in The Ring Cycle CNPA Beijing, house debut with Cologne Opera as Miller in Luisa Miller, return to Leipzig Opera as Scarpia Tosca and Rigoletto, to State Opera Prague in title parts of Rigoletto, Hollander and Macbeth, Telramund Lohengrin in Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Klingsor Parsifal with Bergen National Orchestra.
Debuts with Bayreuth Festival in the new Ring Cycle, Telramund Lohengrin at Grand Theatre Liceu in Barcelona, Alberich Siegfried Gothenburg Opera, Alberich Rheingold CNPA Beijing, the title role in Macbeth with National Theatre in Prague, Captain Balstrode Peter Grimes Finnish National Opera, Miller Luisa Miller at the English National Opera, debut at Wexford Festival as Sancho Don Quichotte, return to Prague National Theatre with the role of Telramund Lohengrin, the title role in Wozzeck and the title role Der fliegende Holländer at the Finnish National Opera, Alberich Das Rheingold in Gothenburg Opera. He was also seen as Falstaff at Opera Omaha and Opera Colorado and in the main part in Rigoletto at Minnesota Opera. Formerly a principal artist at Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken, where his roles included Balstrode Peter Grimes, and the title roles of Falstaff, Rigoletto, Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra, Scarpia Tosca, Renato Un Ballo in Maschera, Jochanaan Salome (for which he received the Sponsors Prize), Don Carlo La Forza del Destino, Four Villains Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Méphistophélès La Damnation de Faust, Tonio I Pagliacci and General Groves Doctor Atomic. His performances in German repertoire include roles such as Klingsor Parsifal, Pizarro Fidelio, Barak Frau ohne Schatten.
Alberich
Wagner -Rheingold
Alberich
Wagner -Rheingold
Erhebe dich...
Wagner - Lohengrin
Erhebe dich...
Wagner - Lohengrin
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…
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…
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.
...a superlative cast: Olafur Sigurdarson's stentorian, anguished Alberich.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
