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 Cunegonde/Candide, Giulietta /Les contes d'Hoffmann, Servilia /La clemenza di Tito, Mrs Julian in Britten's Owen Wingrave, Queen of the Night, 1st Lady /The Magic Flute, Gilda /Rigoletto, Oscar /Un Ballo in maschera, Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, as well as La Contessa Armelinda in Gli Uccellatori by F.L. Gassmann, 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, Mozart’s Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana, Beethoven's Symphony no 9, Thorvaldsdottir’s Ad Genua, 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 with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, and could be heard in Orff's Carmina Burana at Liederhalle Stuttgart.
She opened the 2023/24 season with an opera gala at Theater Kiel, where she also sang the role of Ännchen in a new production of Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz. In addition, she sang Erste Dienerin/Die Frau ohne Schatten at Dresden’s Semperoper and could be heard as Belinda in concert performances of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in Vilnius, with Beethoven’s Symphony no 9 in Kiel, at a Laureate Gala in Seville with the Real Orquesta Sinfónica, with Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Ad Genua and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra at Reykjavik's Hallgrímskirkja, and once again with the Prague Royal Philharmonic and Carmina Burana at Liederhalle Stuttgart.
In the current season 2024/25 Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir will, among other things, return to Kiel as Ännchen for the revival of Der Freischütz, sing 1st Lady/Magic Flute at Aalto-Theater Essen and make her debut as Contessa/Le nozze di Figaro at Reykjavik’s Icelandic Theatre.
In addition she can be heard as Hilda in the semi-staged premiere after 175 years of C.A. Mangold’s opera Gudrun with the Konzertchor Darmstadt and in various concerts in Sevilla, Munich, Nuremberg and Reykjavik.
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.
Artist Website
www.bryndisgudjonsdottir.comManagement
General ManagementArtist Manager
Ingunn Sighvatsdóttir
Artist Manager
ingunn@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-173-2 067 821
Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
| Beethoven | Symphony no 9 |
| Mozart | Requiem |
| Orff | Carmina Burana |
| Pergolesi | Stabat Mater |
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 | 1. Dame | |
| Königin der Nacht | ||
| Don Giovanni | Donna Anna | |
| La clemenza di Tito | Servilia | |
| Le nozze di Figaro | Contessa | |
| Offenbach | Les contes d´Hoffmann | Giulietta (Version Koloratura) |
| Olympia | ||
| Purcell | Dido and Aeneas | Belinda |
| Salieri | Prima la musica poi le parole | Tonina |
| Strauss | Die Frau ohne Schatten | 1. Dienerin |
| Verdi | Rigoletto | Gilda |
| Un ballo in maschera | Oscar | |
| Wagner | Siegfried | Waldvogel |
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Press
Der Freischütz / Theater Kiel / 29.10.24 / deropernfreund.de
"Ebenfalls ein absoluter Pluspunkt dieser Besetzung ist Bryndís Gudjónsdóttir als Ännchen. Wie die zuvor genannten Protagonisten auch, überzeugt sie durch unforcierten Gesang, der stets über das Orchester strahlt."
Carmina Burana / Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla / 20.09.24 / Diario de Sevilla
"Bryndís Gudjónsdóttir, bien conocida del público sevillano desde su triunfo en 2022 en el Certamen Nuevas Voces que organiza la ASAO, que a la postre sirvió algunos de los momentos más destacados de la noche. [...]tiene Gudjónsdóttir una tesitura de soprano ligera, con un timbre cristalino y unos agudos fúlgidos, limpios, brillantísimos. Además es una cantante soberbia, que sabe frasear y regular el caudal sonoro con una suavidad exquisita: después de un delicadísimo "In trutina" empastó maravillosamente con los niños en "Oh, oh, oh, totus floreo" y dejó un "Dulcissime" soberbio, con un impoluto y estratosférico re en la cima del exigente arco en coloratura escrito por Orff."