Halvor F. Melien
baritone
The Norwegian baritone Halvor F. Melien has appeared at opera houses and festivals such as Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Festival de Menton (France), Municipal Theatre in Ho Chi Minh City, Bergen National Opera and most frequently; the Norwegian National Opera.
His operatic roles include Leporello and Masetto in DON GIOVANNI, Papageno in DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE, Marcello in LA BOHEME, Moralès in CARMEN, Aeneas in DIDO AND AENEAS, Peter in HÄNSEL UND GRETEL, Giove in II RITORNO D’ULISSE and many more.
He is an unusually active concert singer and he regularly appears throughout Europe and Asia. His vast repertoire includes standard repertoire and he is also one of Scandinavia’s leading interpreters of 20th and 21st-century music, having participated in a number of world-premiers.