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Johannes Weisser was born in 1980 in Norway. He studied at the Music Conservatory in Copenhagen and at the Royal Danish Academy of Opera in Copenhagen with Susanna Eken.
In the spring of 2004, at the age of 23, he made his debut at the Norwegian National Opera as well as at the Komische Oper Berlin, in both houses as Masetto in Don Giovanni. Since then he has established himself as one of the most exciting Scandinavian singers of his generation.
Engagements have brought him to Salzburg Festival, Staatsoper Berlin, Theater an der Wien, Théâtre de La Monnaie in Brussels, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Opéra national du Rhin Strasbourg, Opéra de Dijon, Opera Bilbao, Megaron Athens, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Komische Oper Berlin, Norwegian National Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Edinburgh International Festival, Innsbrucker Festwochen der alten Musik and Flanders Festival Bruges with roles such as the title role and Leporello in Don Giovanni, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Schaunard in La Bohème, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Mr. Flint in Billy Bud, Agamemnon in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide, Giove in Cavalli’s La Calisto, Ramiro in Ravel's L'heure espagnole, Plutone and Pastore 4 in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, King Theseus in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Valens in Handel’s Theodora and Achilla in Giulio Cesare.
Johannes Weisser is a much sought after concert, oratorio and singer and he regularly appears in concert venues and festivals throughout Europe. He has a considerable repertoire that spans music from the early 17th Century works of Monteverdi up to 20th Century works of Weill and Britten. He is an exceptionally communicative “Lied”-singer. His concerts have attracted much attention and have been highly praised, notably the concerts with the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes.
He has worked with conductors such as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alfredo Bernardini, Fabio Biondi, Francesco Corti, Alan Curtis, Ottavio Dantone, Thomas Dausgaard, Stéphane Denève, Laurence Equilbey, Olari Elts, Adam Fischer, Patrick Fournillier, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Philippe Herreweghe, J. David Jackson, René Jacobs, Tõnu Kaljuste, Fredrik Malmberg, Juanjo Mena, Ingo Metzmacher, Marc Minkowski, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Andris Nelsons, Andrew Parrott, Kirill Petrenko, George Petrou, Daniel Reuss, Christophe Rousset, Kwame Ryan, Andreas Spering, Christoph Spering, and Lothar Zagrosek.
Engagements in 2011 included Garzia in Attilio Ariosti’s La Fede nei tradimenti in Vienna, Siena and Montpellier, Arsitobolo in Handel’s Berenice at Theater an der Wien, Agamemnon in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide in Athens, Achilla in Giulio Cesare at Theater an der Wien as well as at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, Ramiro in Ravel's L'heure espagnole with Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung in Verona, arias by Mozart with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder in Hasselt (Belgium), Bach’s Mass in B minor in Leipzig and Zürich, Bach’s Actus Tragicus in Tromsoe and Handel’s Messiah in Oslo as well as in Trondheim.
Engagements in 2012 included Corpo in Cavalieri's La rappresentazione di anima at the Staatsoper Berlin as well as at Cité de la Musique in Paris, Licomede in Handel’s Deidemia at Theater an der Wien as well as in Braunschweig, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at Opéra de Dijon, the title role in Don Giovanni in Copenhagen, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte in Stavanger, the title role in Grieg's Peer Gynt in London, Cologne, Essen and Dortmund, Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in Brussels and Rheingau, Handel’s Messiah in Lisbon with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, and Haydn’s Die Schöpfung in Rennes with Orchestre de Bretagne, in Paris with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and in Oslo with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra.
2013 has started with Malatesta in Don Pasquale at Norwegian National Opera, Minos in Handel's Arianna in Creta at Theater an der Wien, Bruckner's Mass in F minor with Orchestre de Paris, Bach's St John Passion in Paris with the Insula Orchestra, the title role in Grieg's Peer Gynt with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Fauré's Requiem in Stockholm with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Mozart's Requiem in Oslo.
Johannes has recorded the title role in Don Giovanni, Telemann’s Brockes Passion, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung and Bach’s St Matthew Passion - all with René Jacobs, Haydn’s Applausus with Andreas Spering, Achilla in Giulio Cesare and Licaone in Handel’s Giove in Argo with Alan Curtis, David in Staale Kleiberg’s David and Bathsheba and a highly acclaimed CD with songs by Grieg.
forthcoming
HAYDN - Die Schöpfung - Krakow
Christophe Rousset, conductor / Capella Cracoviensis
MOZART - Requiem - Seoul, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Nishinoniva, Tokorozawa
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor / Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Bach - Christmas Oratorio - Leipzig
Trevor Pinnock, conductor / Gewandhaus Orchestra
BRAHMS - Ein Deutsches Requiem - Vestfold International Festival
Michael McCarty, conductor
SCHUMANN, GRIEG - Recital - Berlin, Weimar
Daniel Heide, piano
MOZART - Requiem - Versailles, Reims
Laurence Equilbey, conductor / Insula Orchestra
BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 9 - Oslo
Vasily Petrenko, conductor / Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
HAYDN - La vera costanza / Villotto - Brühl, Cologne
Andreas Spering, conductor
HAYDN - Die Schöpfung - Oslo
Terje Kvam, conductor
HANDEL - Messiah - Trondheim
Fredrik Sixten, conductor
Handel - Alcina / Melisso - Norwegian National Opera
NN, conductor
Handel - Admeto / Ercole - Theater an der Wien
Alan Curtis, conductor / Il Complesso Barocco
BEETHOVEN - Missa solemnis - Utrecht
Jérémie Rhorer, conductor / Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
HANDEL - La Resurrezione - Concert tour
René Jacobs, conductor / Le Cercle de l'Harmonie
Cavalieri - La rappresentazione di anima / Corpo - Staatsoper Berlin
René Jacobs, conductor
DONIZETTI - L'elisir d'amore / Belcore - Kissinger Sommer Festival
Nicola Paszkowski, conductor
J. REINVERE - Peer Gynt / A pastor;The Devil - Norwegian National Opera
NN, conductor
PURCELL - Dido and Aeneas / Aeneas - Arctic Opera
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
GLUCK - Demofoonte / Matusio - Theater an der Wien
Alan Curtis, conductor / Il Complesso Barocco
April 2013
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