Norwegian tenor Magnus Staveland was born in Stavanger. He studied at the State Academy of Music in Oslo and at the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen with Susanna Eken.
Engagements have brought him to Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Florence, Teatro Regio di Torino, Settimana Musicale Senese Siena, Teatro Real Madrid, Staatsoper Berlin, Theater an der Wien, Innsbrucker Festwochen, Opéra Garnier Paris, Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg, Opéra de Rouen, Opéra Garnier Monaco, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Théâtre de la Monnaie Brussels, Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, Perm State Opera, Ho Chi Minh Opera, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Drottningholm Festival Stockholm, Royal Swedish Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Norwegian National Opera, Settimana Musicale Senese in Siena.
His roles include Don Ottavio in DON GIOVANNI, Tamino in DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE, Ferrando in COSÌ FAN TUTTE, Arbace in Mozart’s IDOMENEO, Medoro in Haydn’s ORLANDO PALADINO, Aret in Haydn’s PHILEMON UND BAUCIS, Evandre in Gluck’s ALCESTE, Ati in Gluck’s ARISTEO, Giove in Gluck’s BAUCI E FILEMONE, Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA, Giove in Martín y Soler’s LA DORA FESTEGGIANTE and several roles in operas by Monteverdi, Handel, Vivaldi, Cavalli and Scarlatti.
He is a much sought-after concert singer and regularly appears in concert venues and festivals throughout Europe and Asia. His repertoire includes a vast number of masses, oratorios, symphonies and song cycles.
He regularly works with conductors such as Hansjörg Albrecht, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Fabio Biondi, Ivor Bolton, Olof Boman, Simon Carrington, Gary Cooper, Teodor Currentzis, Thomas Dausgaard, Alessandro De Marchi, Steven Devine, Marcello Di Lisa, Werner Ehrhardt, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Enrico Gatti, Jörg Halubek, Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Stefan Klingele, Nicholas Kraemer, Christoph Kühlewein, Patrick Lange, Andrew Lawrence-King, Andrew Manze, Marc Minkowski, Juan Bautista Otero, Andrew Parrot, George Petrou, Raphaël Pichon, Christophe Rousset, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Federico Maria Sardelli, Marc Soustrot, Andreas Spering, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Jörg Straube, Peter Szilvay, Ottaviano Tenerani, Lars-Erik ter Jung and Tim Weiss.
His most recent opera engagements include Orpheus in Offenbach’s ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD, Vater in DIE SIEBEN TODSÜNDEN and Gherardo in GIANNI SCHICCHI at the Norwegian National Opera, Polidoro in Scarlatti’s ERMINIA in Ghent and Søderlind’s DRAUMKVEDET in Oslo. He has also sung concerts of Monteverdi’s IL COMBATTIMENTO DI TANCREDI E CLORINDA in Wigmore Hall London as well as at the Pontoise Festival with Les Talens Lyriques, Tempo in Handel’s IL TRIONFO DEL TEMPO E DEL DISINGANNO in Oslo, Haydn’s DIE SCHÖPFUNG in Odense, Bruckner’s TE DEUM and Haydn’s HARMONIEMESSE in Oslo with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Telemann’s BROCKES-PASSION in Hamburg and Mahler’s DAS LIED VON DER ERDE at Gloppen Music Festival.
December 2021
Haydn – SCHÖPFUNGSMESSE
Bodoe
Øystein Jæger, conductor / Arctic Philharmonic
Weber – DER FREISCHÜTZ / Max
Hamburg, Cologne, Freiburg, Wiesbaden
René Jacobs, conductor / Freiburger Barockorchester
Wagner – DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER / Erik
Opera Østfold
Peter Szilvay, conductor
Mozart – DON GIOVANNI / Don Ottavio
Kristiansand
Opera South
November 2021
Den norske tenoren Magnus Staveland er født i Stavanger Han studerte ved Musikkhøgskolen i Oslo og ved Opera Akademiet i København.
Han hadde sitt internasjonale gjennombrudd da han sang Enea i Cavallis LA DIDONE ved Teatro alla Scala i Milano og ved Teatro la Fenice i Venezia.
Han har siden gjestet Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino i Firenze, Teatro Carignano i Torino, Teatro Real Madrid, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Theater an der Wien, Opéra Garnier Paris, Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg, Théâtre de La Monnaie i Brussel, Opera Vlaanderen i Antwerpen, Perm State Opera, Ho Chi Minh Opera House, Kungliga Operan i Stockholm, Det Kongelige Teater i København, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Händel Festivalen i Halle, Drottningholms Festivalen i Stockholm, og han har sunget en rekke roller ved Den Norske Opera.
Han er en meget etterspurt konsertsanger og han opptrer regelmessige på konserthus og festivaler i Europa og Asia. Hans repertoar inkluderer oratorier, messer og sanger av Bach, Beethoven, Britten, Dvorak, Grieg, Haydn, Händel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, Stravinsky og Vivaldi.
Han samarbeider med en rekke av verdens ledende dirigenter, som Rinaldo Alessandrini, Fabio Biondi, Ivor Bolton, Teodor Currentzis, Alessandro De Marchi, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Philippe Herreweghe, Jörg Halubek, René Jacobs, Bernard Labadie, Andrew Manze, Marc Minkowski, Kent Nagano, Juan Bautista Otero, Andrew Parrot, George Petrou, Raphael Pichon, Christophe Rousset, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Federico Maria Sardelli, Marc Soustrot, Andreas Spering, Ottaviano Tenerani og Joshua Weilerstein.
September 2020