AudunIversen
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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
About Audun
Norwegian baritone Audun Iversen graduated from the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo in 2005, furthering his studies at Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig and at the Opera Academy Copenhagen, where, during the 2007-08 season, he performed Schaunard (La bohème) and Vicomte Cascada (The Merry Widow) with the Royal Danish Opera. In 2007, Audun received First Prize in the Queen Sonja Competition in Oslo.
The 2024-25 season sees Audun perform roles including Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde) at Grand Théâtre de Genève, Amfortas in a new production of Parsifal at Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen) at Den Norske Opera and Ballet.
In 2023-24, he sang the title role in Eugene Onegin at Opera Liceu in Barcelona, Albert (Werther) for Opernhaus Zürich, The CEO (The Shell Trial) at the Dutch National Opera, and Germont (La Traviata) with the Prague National Theatre. Prior to that, in the 22-23 season he performed Edwin (Die Csardasfürstin) and Don Alfonso (Cosi fan tutte) in Oslo as well as Frank/Fritz (Die tote Stadt) at ENO and Carmina Burana, at Litomysl Festival.
Operatic highlights of recent seasons include Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) for San Francisco Opera; il Conte (Le nozze di Figaro) for Glyndebourne and Deutsche Oper Berlin; title role Eugene Onegin for Royal Danish Opera, Norwegian Opera and Bolshoi Theatre Moscow; Posa (Don Carlo) at Oper Frankfurt; Fieramosca (Benvenuto Cellini) at Paris Opera; Zurga (Les pêcheurs de perles) with Geneva Opera; Germont (La Traviata) at Norwegian Opera and State Opera Prague; Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) with Teatro dell’Opera Roma; Albert (Werther) at Royal Opera House and at Opernhaus Zürich; Marcello (La bohème) at the Royal Opera House and San Francisco Opera; Silvio (I pagliacci) at Royal Danish Opera; Alfio (Cavalleria Rusticana) and Tonio (I pagliacci) with Oper Graz; Lescaut (Manon) at the Royal Opera House; Olivier (Capriccio) for his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut and the title role Wozzeck for Oper Frankfurt and Norwegian Opera.
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
Season Highlights
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Selected Repertoire
| BENJAMIN | Written on Skin (The Protector) |
|---|---|
| BERG | Wozzeck (title role) |
| BIZET | The Pearl Fishers (Zurga) |
| DONIZETTI | Lucia di Lammermoor (Enrico) |
| GLUCK | Alceste (Hercule) |
| LEONCAVALLO | Pagliacci (Silvio, Tonio) |
| MASCAGNI | Cavalleria Rusticana (Alfio) |
| MASSENET | Manon (Lescaut) • Werther (Albert) |
| MONTEVERDI | Il Ritorno d’ulisse in Patria (Eumete) |
| MOZART | Cosi fan tutte (Don Alfonso) • Don Giovanni (title role) • Le nozze di Figaro (Conte Almaviva) • The Magic Flute (Papageno) |
| PUCCINI | La bohème(Marcello, Schaunard) • Madama Butterfly (Sharpless) |
| STRAUSS | Capriccio (Olivier) |
| TCHAIKOVSKY | Eugene Onegin (title role) |
| VERDI | Don Carlo (Rodrigo) • Il Trovatore (Conte di Luna) • La Traviata (Germont) |
| WAGNER | Tristan und Isolde (Kurwenal) |
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Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
Grand Théâtre de GenèveAug 2024 - Sep 2024Impeccable too, the Kurwenal of the Norwegian baritone Audun Iversen: very rich timbre, sense of the Wagnerian singing line, sober and accurate stage acting, beautiful stage presence. He draws with great accuracy the protective tenderness of the squire, almost fusional with his dying knight, in the third act.
- Forum Opera
- 17 September 2024
... Audun Iversen's generous baritone as a devoted Kurwenal, stand[s] out.
- Diapason
- 16 September 2024
Audun Iversen's Kurwenal is also a role that is totally convincing: in the first act he has little to say, but we immediately notice that he knows how to phrase and that he is both expressive and at ease on stage. It is in the third act that we have the confirmation of his qualities, with not only the phrasing and expressiveness but also the power and commitment, he gives off a real emotion throughout the act, giving the text all its color, and also all its power with a voice that sounds good. A character of heartbreaking humanity emerges. One of the real discoveries of the evening.
- Wanderer
- 18 September 2024
Audun Iversen is a Kurwenal of such beautiful workmanship, with the presence of his baritone and a legato sewn with gold thread...
- Olyrix
- 17 September 2024
Kurwenal has the unsuspected palm of tenderness, elegance and solemnity in the manner of Audun Iversen to place himself as an invincible, and at the same time humanly so vulnerable, filter of Tristan.
- Opera Online
- 15 September 2024
Norwegian baritone Audun Iversen, endowed with a richly virile baritone, was an outstanding Kurwenal. In Act I, his mocking of Isolde and Brangäne was cruelly biting. In Act III, his love and affection for Tristan were truly moving. The exchange between the two men in Act III, which can sometimes be stale, was surprisingly the most stirring moment of the performance.
- My Scena
- 25 September 2024