Biography

The Icelandic soprano, Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir, studied at the Icelandic University of the Arts (with Kristinn Sigmundsson and others) and received her bachelor's degree summa cum laude from the University Mozarteum Salzburg in 2019, where she studied with Professor Michèle Crider, Alexander von Pfeil and Gernot Sahler and where she also completed her master's degree in opera performance in 2021.
 
Her operatic roles include Giulietta /Les contes d'Hoffmann, Servilia /La clemenza di Tito, Mrs Julian in Britten's Owen Wingrave, Queen of the Night /The Magic Flute, Gilda /Rigoletto, Oscar /Un Ballo in maschera, Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, and Venus in Venus and Adonis by John Blow.
 
In addition to opera, Bryndís could be heard as a soloist in various concert performances. Among others, she sang Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Vivaldi's Nulla in Mundo RV 630, Orff's Carmina Burana, Beethoven's Symphony no 9, and Berio's song cycle Folk Songs with orchestras such as the Prague Royal Philharmonic, the Salzburger Orchester Solisten and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in Lithuania, the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Gasteig in Munich, the Espacio Turina in Seville, the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik and the Sala Santa Cecilia in Rome.
 
In the 2022/23 season, Bryndís sang the role of Kunigunde in a concert performance of Bernstein's Candide at Theater Kiel, La contessa Armelinda in Gassmann's opera Gli Uccellatori at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca, Queen of the Night /Magic Flute at Theater Kassel and Opera Reykjavik, and could be heard in Orff's Carmina Burana at Liederhalle Stuttgart.
 
She opened the current 2023/24 season with an opera gala at Theater Kiel, where she will also sing the role of Ännchen in a new production of Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz. In addition, she can be heard as Belinda in concert performances of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in Vilnius, at a Laureate Gala in Seville with the Real Orquesta Sinfónica, with Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Ad Genova and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra at Reykjavik's Hallgrímskirkja, and once again with the Prague Royal Philharmonic and Carmina Burana at Liederhalle Stuttgart.
 
Bryndís is the recipient of numerous scholarships and the winner of several prizes; she won first prize and a special prize at the XVIII Certamen Nuevas Competition in Seville in 2022, first prize at the Riccardo Zandonai Competition in Garda, Italy and the Danubia Talents Liszt International Online Music Competition in 2021, and was also the winner of the Icelandic Young Soloists Competition and the Duschek Competition in 2018.


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Management

General Management

Artist Manager
 
 
 
 Ingunn Sighvatsdóttir
Artist Manager
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Repertoire

Repertoire Opera

Bernstein Candide Cunegonde
J.Blow Venus and Adonis Venus
Britten Owen Wingrave Mrs. Julian
F.L. Gassmann Gli uccellatori La contessa Armelinda
Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel Sandmännchen
    Taumännchen
Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail Konstanze
  Die Zauberflöte Königin der Nacht
  La clemenza di Tito Servilia
Offenbach Les contes d´Hoffmann Giulietta
(Version Koloratura)
    Olympia
Purcell Dido and Aeneas Belinda
Salieri Prima la musica poi le parole Tonina
Verdi Rigoletto Gilda
  Un ballo in maschera Oscar
Wagner Siegfried Waldvogel

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