Rúni Brattaberg
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| Born |
1966 (age 49–50) Faroe Islands |
| Occupation | opera singer (bass) |
| Years active | 1999 to present |
Rúni Brattaberg is a bass opera singer from the Faroe Islands.
Life and career
He is the son of Árni and Karin Brattaberg from the village of Vágur in Faroe Islands.
He first graduated as a documentary photographer in Copenhagen, before he trained to become a singer. He studied at the Sibelius Akademia in Helsinki from 1997 to 1999 and at the International Operastudio in Zürich from 1999 to 2000.
After his first engagements in Mainz, Ulm, Detmold and Bern, he was engaged from 2009-2011 at the National Theater Mannheim where he sang: Gurnemanz, Hagen, Hunding, Fafner, Veit Pogner, König Heinrich, Basilio, Timur, Sparafucile, Sarastro, Baron Ochs, and Osmin.
He sang as a guest at the National Opera Amsterdam, Lausanne, Theater Bonn, Aalto Theater Essen, and at the Opera Bastille in Paris.
In May 2011, Brattaberg replaced the ill Kurt Rydl as Baron Ochs in Amsterdam, in a performance conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.
Since the 2008/2009 season, he has covered the roles of Hagen and Baron Ochs at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Recordings
- Songs by Sibelius, Schubert en Mussorgsky
- Mikko Heiniö: The Knight and the Dragon by Curt Appelgren, Rúni Brattaberg, Mikko Heiniö, and Ulf Söderblom
- Brotið by Rúni Brattaberg, Regin Dahl, Modest Mussorgsky, and Sunleif Rasmussen
Sources
- Musica Glotz Artists Management, Official biography
- Schinstad, Ingunn Aagedal, Den glade operasjef, Gudbrandsdølen Dagningen, 4 November 2009
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