Swedish tenor Michael Weinius, recipient of the Gösta Winbergh Award, the Birgit Nilsson Prize and winner of Seattle Opera’s International Wagner Competition, has rapidly established himself as one of Scandinavia’s most sought after and praised tenors.
After making the transition from baritone to tenor in 2004 Michael Weinius immediately had tremendous success as Laça in Jenufa at NorrlandsOperan in Sweden. In 2005 he sang Don José in Carmen with the Stockholm Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Marc Soustrot, Loge in Das Rheingold with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano and Sergej in Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk at Värmlandsoperan in Karlstad.
Further engagements are Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana, Siegmund in Die Walküre and Don José at The Royal Swedish Opera, Parsifal both in Mannheim and at Värmlandsoperan, Riccardo in Un ballo in Maschera, Dick Johnson in La Fanciulla del West and Herodes in Salome at the Malmö Opera. In December 2008 Michael sang – especially written for him - the part of King David in the world première of Bathsheba by Sven David Sandström, an opera commissioned by The Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.
Other recent and future engagements include Parsifal for Deutsche Oper am Rhein and Finnish National Opera, Siegmund at De Nationale Reisoper and Nationaltheater Mannheim, Hans Schwalb in Mathis der Maler at Opera de Bastille conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, and Don José and Lohengrin at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. In 2013 he will make his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich as Parsifal.
Michael Weinius /Tenor
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