Aage Haugland

Haugland was among his generation’s most-noted bassos, using a voice somewhere within basso cantante and basso profondo and the energy and endurance for even the most demanding Wagnerian tasks. Though he specific in Wagner, he liked great achievement in Russian tasks aswell and has sometimes appeared in additional German operas (especially as Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier) and Italian operas, aswell as creating the part from the Commander in Ruder’s The Handmaid’s Story. He began performing early using the Copenhagen Kids’ Choir, though when he came into Copenhagen College or university, he studied medication aswell as performing. He produced his opera debut on the Den Norske Opera in 1968 as Brewer in Martinu’s The Humor over the Bridge and in 1973, he initial appeared on the Royal Danish Opera, starting a long-term association with this home. In 1975, he produced his debut in Britain at Covent Backyard as Hunding in Wagner’s Die Walküre. His USA debut was on the St. Louis Opera Movie theater as Boris Godunov in 1979. 2 yrs later, he produced his debut at La Scala as Ruler Tag in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and his 1983 Bayreuth Celebration debut as Hagen in Die Götterdämmerung. His early loss of life interrupted an ever-expanding repertoire, as he continuing to add assignments which range from Gianni Schicchi to Ruler Saul in Nielsen’s Saul and David to Wozzeck, aswell as creating brand-new roles like the Commander (2000) and Jason in Liebermann’s The Acquittal of Medea (1995).