AudunIversen
Representation
About Audun
Norwegian baritone Audun Iversen won the Queen Sonja International Singing Competition 2007 in Oslo and made the final in the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna, in addition to being the first singer to win the newly founded Ingrid Bjoner Scholarship.
Audun has appeared at some of the most distinguished houses worldwide including Royal Danish Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, San Francisco Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Theater an der Wien, English National Opera, Opera di Roma and Lyric Opera of Chicago. Concert performances include Carmina Burana with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and Britten’s War Requiem with the New Japan Philharmonic conducted by Daniel Harding.
Recent operatic engagements include title role in Wozzeck and Posa Don Carlo) at Oper Frankfurt; his debut at Grand Théâtre de Genève as Zurga (Pecheurs de Perles), Marcello (La bohème) for his return to San Francisco Opera and the Royal Danish Opera, his Paris Opera debut as Fieramosca (Benvenuto Cellini), Alfio/Tonio (Pagliacci & Cavalleria rusticana) at Opera Graz; Albert (Werther) for Opernhaus Zürich, Posa (Don Carlo) at Oper Frankfurt, Count (Le nozze di Figaro) for Den Norske Opera and Olivier (Capriccio) at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Representation
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) |
News
Press
Massenet - Manon
Royal Opera HouseJan 2014Audun Iversen’s Lescaut was fittingly rumbustious, swaggering arrogantly and singing with vigour and vitality
- Opera Today
- 22 January 2014
Audun Iversen gave strength and presence as Lescaut, Manon’s cousin
- Bachtrack
- 15 January 2014