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The bass-baritone Havard Stensvold was born in Oslo. He studied at the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen with Professor Susanna Eken and at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory.
Recent opera engagements have included Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Zuniga in Carmen, and The Wooden Soldier in The Doll doctor at the Norwegian National Opera, Masetto in Don Giovanni and Mercurio / Famigliaro II / Littore and Tribuno II in L'Incoronazione di Poppea at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, Polyphemos in Handel’s Acis and Galatea at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der alten Musik and at the Early Music Festival in Bruges, Faraone in Fago’s Il Faraone Sommerso in Spain, Italy, Poland and Salzburg, Schaunard in La bohème at Oscarsborg Opera Festival, Zebul in Handel’s Jephta in Stavanger, the title role in Don Giovanni in staged performances with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the Fynske Opera in Odense, Denmark, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro in Copenhagen, and Marullo in Rigoletto at the Nordland Music Festival, Norway.
Havard Stensvold regularly works with conductors such as Frank Agsteribbbe, Francesco Corti, Fabio Biondi, Roland Böer, Patrick Fournillier, Paul Goodwin, Sigiswald Kuijken, Andrew Litton, Andrew Manze, Nicholas McGegan, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Michel Plasson, Lawrence Renes, Andreas Spering, Mark Tatlow, Robin Ticciati and Bruno Weil.
He is a much sought after concert, oratorio, and recital singer. He has a vast repertoire with a wide range of music. He spends considerable time singing contemporary music and we should mention his appearance in world premiers of Baritone in Cecilie Ore’s Dead beat escapement at the Norwegian National Opera, Kjell Habbestad’s opera The Maid of Norway in Bergen, Norway, David in the world premier of Staale Kleiberg’s David and Bathsheba in Trondheim, Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen opera The little Mermaid, and The Soldier in the world premier of Palmar Johansen’s Madonna Furiosa.
Engagements in the season 2009/10 included Bach’s St. John Passion in Milan as well as in Oslo, Handel’s Messiah in Kristiansand, Cantatas by Bach in Copenhagen, Haydn’s Stabat Mater in Bergen, and concerts with music by Purcell at the Flanders Festival Bruges. He also sang one of the leading roles in the world premier of Anitra Tumsevica’s opera Red.
Engagement in the season 2010/11 included Il Commenadatore and Masetto in Don Giovanni at the Drottningholm Festival in Stockholm, Purcell’s The Indian Queen in Brussels, David in Staale Kleiberg’s David and Bathsheba in Trondheim, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra as well as with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Verdi’s Requiem in Kristiansund and Bergen (Norway), Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Oslo and Handel’s Messiah in Narvik
Engagement in the season 2011/12 include further performances of Il Commenadatore and Masetto in Don Giovanni at the Drottningholm Festival in Stockholm, Purcell’s The Indian Queen in Antwerp, Brander in La damnation de Faust in Bergen with the conductor Sir Andrew Davis (and a cast including Bryn Terfel and Christine Rice), concerts of Mozart’s Mass in C minor in Oslo with the conductor Manfred Honeck, Lars-Erik Larsson’s Förklädd gud (God in disguise) in Kristiansund, Dvorak’s Requiem in Oslo, Mozart’s Requiem in Bergen and Handel’s Messiah in Oslo as well as in Halden.
November 2011
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