DANIEL JOHANSSON, tenor

Biografi

Utmärkelser

Repertoire

Audio/Video

Die Walküre

Friedmund darf ich nich heißen

Ein Schwert verhieß mir der Vater

Winterstürme

NICOLAI GEDDA ÄR DÖD

RECENSIONER:

Maria Askerfjord Sundeby: Den svenske stjärntenoren och hovsångaren blev 91 år gammal (SVT)

Claes Wahlin: En världsstjärna har tystnat  (AB)

Julia Wägenberg: Svenske operasångaren Nicolai Gedda är död. Rickard Söderberg: Han var helt unik (AB)

Kultur och Nöje: Nicolai Gedda är död (DN)

Mogens H. Andersson: Nicolai Gedda är död-RIP (Operalogg)

ANDRA LÄNKAR:

Nio Svenska "In Fernem Land"

Lohengrin, Stockholm 1966

AUDIO/VIDEO:

GÖSTA WINBERGH (1943-2002), tenor

Gösta Winbergh

Biografi

Utmärkelser och stipendier

Svenska Dagbladets operapris (1985), Hovsångare (1988). Litteris et Artibus (1993), Ledamot nr 894 av Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien (1994), Jussi Björlingstipendiet (1994)

Kammarsångare (2002)

Repertoar

Erik (Den flygande holländaren)

(Lohengrin (Lohengrin)

Siegmund (Walkyrian)

Walther von Stolzing (Mästersångarna i Nürnberg)

David (Mästersångarna i Nürnberg)

Tristan (Tristan och Isolde)

Parsifal (Parsifal)

Diskografi

Operaclass

House of Opera

Premiere Opera
Bluebel ABC

Sony

Operabase

Recensioner

Tim Ashley: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Gustafson/ Winbergh/ Tomlinson/ Allen/ Royal Opera Chorus and Orch/ Haitink (The Guardian)

Winbergh, very much his equal in vocal ease and beauty, is more impulsive

and also, tellingly, more obviously aristocratic.

Ewan McCormick: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Gustafson/ Winbergh/ Tomlinson/ Allen/ Royal Opera Chorus and Orch/ Haitink (MusicWeb)

The lateGösta Winbergh performs a memorable Walther von Stolzing, if not

quite the equal of Ben Heppner on Sawallisch’s set, he paces the role

admirably and – no mean feat – has plenty of power in reserve at the end

for the Prize Song. His voice production is slightly veiled at the start

but he is able to open out more attractively as the opera progresses. He

delineates well Walther’s progression from the impulsive youth of the first

two acts to the wiser figure of the third.

Horace Engdahl: Aldrig är Wagner närmare himlen än i ”Lohengrin” (DN.kultur)

I Sverige hade Lohengrin sitt första upp­förande 22 januari 1874 på

Kungliga teatern i Stockholm. Götz Friedrichs ”Lohengrin”-uppsättning från

1989 med Gösta Winbergh i rollen som riddaren anses vara en av

höjdpunkterna i Kungliga Operans historia. ”Drömrollen för en tenor som har

det dramatiska och samtidigt lyriska kvaliteter”, sade Gösta Winbergh 1995.

Göran Forsling: Great Swedish Singers series on (MusicWeg)

The sixth singer here, Gösta Winbergh, belonged to a later generation than the others and tragically died all too early while still at the top of his trade. He started as a quite lyrical singer, much sought after as a Mozart interpreter of exceptional elegance. During the 1990s he moved over to heavier fields, adding Lohengrin, Walther von Stolzing, Parsifal, Tristan and Siegmund, roles that are not represented here. There is however a Sony disc where we get central parts from Lohengrin and Meistersinger. Here we hear him, besides three excerpts from his 1971 debut as Rodolfo in Gothenburg, in Mozart, some French repertoire and a duet from Nielsen’s Maskarade, an opera in which I admired him very much. Also there are two scenes from the aforementioned Meistersinger, where he was a lively and eager David. At the time, Leif Aare wrote prophetically in Dagens Nyheter that in ten years time he will be a great Walther. Considering Winbergh’s very lyrical voice in 1977, I much doubted this prophecy, but Aare was right and few tenors of the day, Heppner and Domingo apart, could challenge him. In due time I hope Bluebell will be able to produce a disc with the "mature" Winbergh. As it is we have him here as the very fine lyrical tenor from which he started.

Fredrik Rundkvist: Operasångaren Gösta Winbergh död (Aftonbladet)

Avled efter en hjärtattack 58 år gammal

Världstenoren Gösta Winberg är död.

Han avled på måndagen i Wien efter en hjärtattack.

Han blev 58 år.

Andra länkar:

Nio Svenska "In Fernem Land"
Fyra Svenska "Morgen ich leuchte im rosigen Schein"
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Stockholm, 1977

Audio/Video

Lohengrin

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

DANIEL FRANK, tenor

Daniel Frank

Biografi

Utmärkelser och stipendier

Uppsala kommuns kulturstipendium 2010

Folkoperans vänners soliststipendium 2010

Birgit Nilsson stipendiet 2012

Den Nordiska Första S:t Johannislogen Jubelfond 2012

Operavännernas Brodin stipendium 2013

Operans solisters Set Svanholm stipendium 2014

Tidskriften OPERAs Operapris 2014

Repertoar

Nuvarande: Tannhäuser, Lohengrin

2016-2017: Siegfried, Götterdämmerung

Spelschema

Recensioner

Bo Löfvendahl: Daniel Frank imponerar i ”Tannhäuser” (SvD)

Andra länkar:

Nio Svenska "In Fernem Land"

Tannhäuser, Stockholm, 2014

Audio/Video

Lohengrin

Tannhäuser

TORSTEN RALF, tenor (1901-1954)

Biografi

Utmärkelser och stipendier

Repertoar

Diskografi

Operaclass.com

Lebendige Vergangenheit

Recensioner

Alan Blyth: Torsten Ralf (1901-1954) - I (Gramophone)

Lemnitz joins Ralf again for the single pre-war item, the only one commonly found in its original 78rpm format: the duet from Lohengrin. Though Volker and Muller are superior in this music, this pair runs them a close second, particularly good at conveying the intimacy of the occasion. Ralf's Walther was heard in the complete pre-war Dresden Die Meistersinger Act 3 under Bohm on HMV (now available on Pearl—to be reviewed later), and also in the Prize Song from a 1936 Covent Garden performance under Beecham (Dutton Laboratories, 6/94). The ''Fanget an'' here adds nothing much to our knowledge of his interpretation of the role.'

Audio/Video

Lohengrin

Parsifal

Der fliegende Holländer

Tristan und Isolde

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

TENOREN SVEN-OLOF ELIASSON ÄR DÖD (1933-2015)

Recensioner

Av Anna Ångström: Operachefen Sven-Olof Eliasson är död (SvD)

Kultur & Nöje: Tenoren Sven-Olof Eliasson död (DN)

Kultur: Tenoren Sven-Olof Eliasson död (Corren.se)

Andra länkar

Gottfried von Strassburg: Sven-Olof Eliasson (1933-2015), tenor (Wagner i Sverige)

Gottfried von Strassburg: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Stockholm, 1977 (Wagner i Sverige)

SET SVANHOLM, tenor (1904-1964)

BIOGRAFI 

Vasterås (1904)

Saltsjö-Duvnäs (1964)

UTMÄRKELSER

Hovsångare 1946, Innehavare av det med anledning av Hans Majestät Konung Gustaf V:s 90-årsdag instiftade minnestecknet, Ledamot av Kungl Musikaliska Akademien 1953, Litteris et artibus 1957, Riddare av Nordstjärneorden, Riddare av Vasaorden, Officer av Ungerska Kronans orden.

DISKOGRAFI

Operaclass

RECENSIONER

Stefan Johansson: Parsifal i Malmö (Kultur)

Robert Benson: Set Svanholm sings Wagner (Classical cd review)

Edmund St. Austell: Set Svanholm: The many sides of a great musician (Great Opera Singers)

Robert Levine: Furtwängler’s ’50 Scala Ring – Remastered (Classics Today)

Henry Fogel: Furtwängler's 1950 Ring Cycle Part 3: Siegfried (Pristine Classical-Fanfare)

Ralph Moore: Richard WAGNER (1813-1883) Der Ring des Nibelungen (Musicweb)

Bernard Holland: Worthy Versions Of 'The Ring': A Critical Selection; Wilhelm Furtwangler (New York Times)

Tim Ashley: Wagner: Götterdämmerung (complete); Tristan und Isolde: Act I, Flagstad/ Svanholm/ Norwegian State Opera (The Guardian)

Joel Kasow: CD Review: Wartime Wagner, Post-war Weber, Weimar Weill and the Inimitable Richard Strauss (Culture Kiosque Operanet)

David Harbin: Richard WAGNER (1813-1883) Die Walkure, Stockholm, 1956 - (Musicweb)

Geoffrey Riggs: Tristan und Isolde (Fireangel)

Opera Cast: Partial overview of a few Tristans (Geoffrey Riggs)

Tim Ashley: Wagner: Parsifal (Complete): Die Walküre (Act I), Varnay/ Svanholm/ London/ Hotter/ Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra/ Stiedry (The Guardian)

Robert Sabin: Metropolitan Opera House, March 24, 1956 Matinee Broadcast, New production (Musical America)

David J. Baker: "Wagner at the Met: Legendary Performances from the Metropolitan Opera" (Opera News)

BÖCKER

Marie-Louise Rodén: Mästersångaren från Västerås : Set Svanholm (Atlantis)

AUDIO/VIDEO

Rienzi

Tannhäuser

Lohengrin

Loge (Rhenguldet)

Siegmund (Valkyrian)

Siegfried (Siegfried)

Siegfried (Ragnarrök)

Tristan (Tristan och Isolde)

Walther von Stolzing (Mästersångarna i Nürnberg)

THOMAS SUNNEGÅRDH, tenor

Thomas Sunnegårdh

Biografi

Repertoar

 [Erik (Den flygande holländaren), Lohengrin, Loge och Froh (Rhenguldet), Parsifal, Walther von Stolzing (Mästersångarna i Nürnberg), Tannhäuser och Tristan ]

Priser 

Jussi Björlingstipendiet

Diskografi

House of Opera

operaclass.com

Audio/Video

Andra länkar 

Tristan och Isolde, Göteborg (2003)

Tannhäuser. Stochkolm (2002)

Rhenguldet (Stockholm, 2005)

HELGE BRILIOTH, tenor (1931-1998)

Biografi

Repertoar 

Bayreuther Festspiele 

Diskografi

Operaclass.com

Opera Depot

Audio/Video

Parsifal Akt I (Misha Horenstein)

Parsifal Akt II (Misha Horenstein)

Parsifal Akt III (Misha Horenstein)

Tristan och Isolde Akt II (Opera Depot)

Ragnarök (Liederoperagreats)

Die Walküre Akt I

LARS CLEVEMAN tenor

BIOGRAFI

BAYREUTHER FESTSPIELE

REPERTOAR

DISKOGRAFI:

House of Opera

Premiere Opera

RECENSIONER

Lennart Bromander: Ttistan und Isolde, 2012 (Götteborg)

Lars Cleveman imponerade stort i detta för de flesta tenorer övermäktiga vokala hinderlopp, och hans insats lyftes genom Lanos känsliga friläggning av Wagners sagolikt rika musik.

Mike Ashman: Götterdämmerung, Manchester 2010 (CD)

Brian Wilson: Götterdämmerung, Manchester 20010 (CD)

Lars Cleveman is a thinking, tragic Siegfried, well matching his conductor’s conception of the work.

Josmar Lopes: Götterdämmerung at the Met, 2013 (New York)

Swedish tenor Lars Cleveman was a light-voiced Siegfried, boasting fine delivery and excellent enunciation, mixed with a slightly nasally texture. He sounded sufficiently like Jay Hunter Morris (who sang the first round of Siegfrieds) to fit into the general scheme of things. Cleveman showed stamina and strength in his Act II oath, as well as wonderfully clarion tone in his emotionally satisfying Act III narrative. The voice stayed fresh and true throughout, which is a marvel in this day and age. We’ve been blessed with a bevy of fine heldentenors lately, which is a most welcome trend I have to say.

Göran Försling: Siegfried, 2006 (Stockholm)

Lars Cleveman has sung a wide variety of roles through his career, which also includes working from time to time with his own hard-rock band. Last December he was a good Des Grieux in the new Stockholm production of Manon Lescaut and he can be heard to good advantage in the title role of Don Carlo from Stockholm on a fine Naxos recording. He is no newcomer to heavy Wagnerian parts either. Four or five years ago I heard him as Tristan in the little theatre in Karlstad in western Sweden. He impressed greatly then, untiring until the very end of that gigantic part. But Siegfried is just as big and in the far larger opera house in Stockholm and with a full-size orchestra he once or twice sounded just a little too small – but I stress: only occasionally. In general, looking like the sulky teenage gangster that Siegfried certainly is, he executed the part with aplomb, his steely tenor cutting through the orchestra like a welding flame. But he also showed another side of the character; after all, Siegfried has some human sides too, especially when he, in the Waldweben scene, wonders about his mother. Then he expressed this with warmly lyrical outpourings that not every Heldentenor could manage.

Paul J. Pelkonen: The Met presents the last Götterdämmerung of 2013 (New York) 

Her Siegfried was the Swedish tenor Lars Cleveman. He displayed a bright, ringing upper top that (in the first scene) turned shrill under pressure. Mr. Cleveman sounded best in the lower parts of this long role, improving as the opera went on. (His baritonal coloring made him quite convincing when disguised as Gunther.) He capped his performance with an entertaining Rhinemaiden scene, a movingly sung Act III narrative and death scene guaranteeing the hero a fine exit and enthusiastic applause.

AUDIO/VIDEO

Eliasson Artists

Youtube

Siegfried (Martin Rössel-Dimitrovajunkie)

Götterdämmerung (Landesteater Linz)

Parsifal (2014brb87)