The Danish tenor Peter Lodahl studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus and at the Opera Academy in Copenhagen.
2003-2005 Peter Lodahl was engaged at the opera in Kiel. His roles there included Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Decio in Vivaldi’s Ottone in Villa, Percy in Anna Bolena, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Cassio in Otello, and Don Alfredo in Künneke’s Lady Hamilton.
2006-2009 he was a principal singer at the Komische Oper Berlin. His roles in Berlin included Rodolfo in La Bohème, Alfredo in La Traviata, Lenski in Eugene Onegin, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Pylades in Iphigenie en Tauride and Renaud in Gluck’s Armide.
Recent guest engagements have included Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at the Staatsoper Berlin, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the Staatsoper Hamburg as well as at the Norwegian National Opera, Ein Jüngling in Die Frau ohne Schatten and Rolla in Verdi’s I Masnadieri at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Alfred in Die Fledermaus and Ein junger Seemann in Tristan und Isolde at the Royal Danish Opera, Fenton in Falstaff at the Gothenburg Opera, Ernesto in Don Pasquale at the Schloss Rapottenstein Austria, and Nerone in Monteverdi’s L'Incoronazione di Poppea in Stockholm. He has also sung concerts in Stuttgarter Liederhalle with the soprano and Diana Damrau.
He regularly works with conductor such as Giancarlo Andretta, Michael Boder, Anthony Bramall, Frans Brüggen, Dan Ettinger, Simon Gaudenz, Paul Goodwin, Michael Hofstetter, Manfred Honeck, Konrad Junghänel, Shao-Chia Lü, Kazushi Ono, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Günter Neuhold, Philip Pickett, Marc Piollet, Markus Poschner, Michael Schønwandt, Peter Schreier, Andreas Spering, Carl St. Clair, Andreas Stoehr and Arnold Östman.
Peter Lodahl is a much sought after concert singer. His concert repertoire include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion and many Cantatas, Mozart’s Requiem, Missa Brevis and Mass in c minor, Handel’s Messiah, Jephta, and Joshua, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Die Jahreszeiten, Paukenmesse and Stabat Mater, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.
Engagements in the season 2009/10 included Tamino in Die Zauberflöte and Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Royal Danish Opera, Alfredo in La Traviata at the Komische Oper Berlin, Bartok’s Cantata Profana at the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in Aarhus, Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten and Bach’s St. John Passion in Oslo. He also sang and acted Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni in an up-and-coming film version of the opera.
The season 2010/11 has so far included Rodolfo in La Bohème (opposite Anna Netrebko), Romeo in Roméo et Juliette and Painter / Negro in Lulu at the Royal Danish Opera and concerts of Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht in Odense.
Forthcoming engagements include Ferrando in Così fan tutte and Alfredo in La Traviata at the Royal Danish Opera, Rodolfo in La Bohème at the Komische Oper Berlin, concerts in Frankfurt and Kaiserslautern with the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the conductor Christoph Poppen, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella in Alice Tully Hall, New York with the conductor Michael Schønwandt, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in Moss with the conductor Christian Eggen, Bach’s St. John Passion in Alborg with the conductor Graham Ross, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in Oslo and concerts in Hamar commemorating the great Jussi Björling.
In August 2006 Peter Lodahl was the 1st Prize Winner of the Gösta Winbergh Award, one of Scandinavia’s most prestigious singing competitions.
June 2011