Biography

The Faroese Bass Rúni Brattaberg first graduated as a documentary photographer in Copenhagen, before he trained to become a singer. He studied at the Sibelius Akademia in Helsinki from 1997-99 and at the International Operastudio in Zürich from 1999-2000
After his first engagements in Mainz, Ulm, Detmold and Bern, he was engaged from 2009-2011 at Nationaltheater Mannheim, where he sang: Gurnemanz, Hagen, Hunding, Fafner, Veit Pogner, König Heinrich, Basilio, Timur, Sparafucile,  Sarastro, Baron Ochs, and Osmin.
 
He sang as a guest at Nationalopera Amsterdam, La Monnaie in Brussels, Opera Lausanne, Theater Bonn, Aalto Theater Essen, and at Opera Bastille in Paris.
 In Mai 2011, Rúni Brattaberg replaced the ill Kurt Rydl as Baron Ochs  in Amsterdam under the baton of  Sir Simon Rattle.
 
In the season of 2013/14, Rúni Brattaberg made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Baron Ochs in "Der Rosenkavalier"), at the Cincinnati Opera, and at the Chicago Lyric Opera.
 
In the current season, Rúni Brattaberg can be heard at Opera Leipzig as Grande Inquisitore/Don Carlo and Landgraf Hermann/Tannhäuser as well as, following last season’s successes, Eremit in Weber's "Der Freischütz" and in the Wagner roles; Fasolt/Das Rheingold, Hunding/Die Walküre, Fafner/Siegfried, Hagen/Götterdämmerung, and Gurnemanz/Parsifal.

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