Biography
The Finnish tenor Dan Karlström graduated from the Business School of Åbo Academy before starting his singing studies at the Sibelius-Academy with Anssi Hirvonen in Helsinki. He has since then worked with Prof. Herbert Brauer in Berlin as well as visited master classes with Jaakko Ryhänen, Tom Krause and Elisabeth Werres.Following first ensemble contracts at Schillertheater NRW and the Staatstheater Darmstadt, he is stable member of the ensemble of the Opera Leipzig since 2001, performing i.a. Mime/Der Ring des Nibelungen, Steuermann/Der fliegende Holländer, Luzio/Das Liebesverbot, Ginger Bread Witch/Hansel and Gretel, Monostatos/Die Zauberflöte, Don Basilio/Le nozze di Figaro, Prinz/Lulu, Spoletta/Tosca, Pong/Turandot, Goro/Madama Butterfly, and Hunter/Rusalka.
In addition, his broad repertoire includes numerous parts out of Opera, Operetta and Musical, including David/Die Meistersinger, Walter von der Vogelweide/Tannhäuser, Truffaldino/The Love for Three Oranges, Tamino/Die Zauberflöte, Cassio/Otello, and Judas/Jesus Christ Superstar.
Guest engagements led him to renowned institutions, including the Dresden Semperoper (Don Basilio/Le nozze di Figaro), Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin (Spoletta/Tosca), Komische Oper Berlin, Theater Chemnitz (title role in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg), Grand Th´^atre de Genève (Mime/Ring), Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, as well as the Bayreuth festival.
He is carrying a close connection to the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, where he made his debut as Tobias in Sweeny Todd and since then sang roles, such as Lindorf, Coppelius, Dapertutto and Dr. Miracle/Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Pedrillo/Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Yonas in Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater. Furthermore, he is a welcome guest at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, where he performed in roles like Monostatos/Zauberflöte, Don Basilio/Le nozze di Figaro, Remendado/Carmen, Goro/Madama Butterfly, as well as Kimmo in Sallinen’s Kullervo.
His concert repertoire includes key works by J. S. Bach, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Beethoven, and Orff.
Dan Karlström collaborated with conductors, such as, Marc Albrecht, Ralf Weikert, Asher Fisch, Sakari Oramo, Patrick Fournillier, Ulf Schirmer, and Christoph Gedschold, and with directors like Peter Sellars, Claus Guth, Robert Carsen, and Francisco Negrín.
As an ensemble member, also in season 2019/20 Karlström will be on stage in numerous roles at Opera Leipzig, including Mime/Ring, Steuermann/Der fliegende Holländer, Ginger Bread Witch/Hansel and Gretel, Monostatos in the new production Die Zauberflöte, Remendado/Carmen, Spoletta/Tosca, Harry/La fanciulla del West, Gastone/La traviata, Kilian/Der Freischütz, as well as Priester und unvollkommener Engel in the new production of Ullmann’s Der Sturz des Antichrist.
In addition, he will sing Mime in the new production Das Rheingold under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, as well as Wirt/Der Rosenkavalier at Dresden’s Semperoper.
Management
General ManagementArtist Manager

Boris Orlob
Managing Director
boris@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-172-8 51 55 14

Ingunn Sighvatsdóttir
Artist Manager
ingunn@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-173-2 067 821
Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
Bach, J.S. | Christmas Oratorio |
Magnificat | |
St. John Passion | |
St. Matthew Passion | |
Beethoven | Symphony no. 9 |
Dvorak | Requiem |
Händel | Messiah |
Lloyd-Webber | Requiem |
Mozart | Coronation Mass in C |
Requiem | |
Orff | Carmina Burana |
Pärt | Stabat Mater |
Rossini | Petite messe solennelle |
Stabat Mater | |
Schönberg | Jakobsleiter /Mönch |
Saint-Saëns | Oratorio de Noël |
Schumann | Dichterliebe |
Strawinsky | Pulcinella |
Repertoire Opera
Arriaga | Die arabische Prinzessin | Jamil |
Bizet | Carmen | Remendado |
Britten | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Flute/Thisbe |
Let´s Make an Opera | Clem | |
Donizetti | Don Pasquale | Ernesto |
Lucia di Lammermoor | Normanno | |
Gounoud | Faust | Siébel |
Gretry | Les deux avares | Gripon |
Humperdinck | Hansel and Gretel | Witch |
Janacek | From The House of the Dead | Cerevin |
Sapkin | ||
Velky Vezen | ||
Johnson | Riemann-opera | Tenor |
Koskinen | Velhosiskot | Kissa |
Leoncavallo | Pagliacci | Beppo |
Ligeti | Le grand macabre | Piet the Pot |
Lortzing | Zar und Zimmermann | Iwanow |
Martinu | Comedy on the Bridge | Schoolmaster |
Mendelssohn | Camacho's Wedding | Vivaldo |
Mozart | Così fan tutte | Ferrando |
Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Pedrillo | |
Die Zauberflöte | 1st Geharnischter | |
1st Priester | ||
Monostatos | ||
Tamino | ||
Idomeneo | Arbace | |
Le nozze di Figaro | Basilio | |
Don Curzio | ||
Mussorgsky | Boris Godunov | Simpleton |
Offenbach | Les contes d´Hoffmann | Andrès/ Cochenille/ Pitichinaccio/Frantz |
Orff | Die Kluge | 1st Strolch |
Pacius | Kung Karls Jakt | Banér |
Prokofiev | The Love for Three Oranges | Truffaldino |
Puccini | La rondine | Gibon |
Madama Butterfly | Goro | |
Tosca | Spoletta | |
Turandot | Pong | |
Ravel | L´heure espagnole | Torquemada |
Rossini | Il turco in Italia | Albazar |
La Cenerentola | Don Ramiro | |
Saariaho | Adriana Mater | Yonas |
Sallinen | Kullervo | Kimmo |
Spohr | Der Berggeist | Oskar |
Stravinsky | The Rake´s Progress | Sellem |
Strauss, R. | Ariadne auf Naxos | Dancing master |
Der Rosenkavalier | An innkeeper | |
Die Frau ohne Schatten | The Hunchback | |
Elektra | A young servant | |
Salome | 4th jew | |
Trojahn | Enrico | Landolfo |
Verdi | Macbeth | Malcolm |
La traviata | Gastone | |
Otello | Cassio | |
Vespri Siciliani | Danieli | |
Wagner | Das Liebesverbot | Antonio |
Luzio | ||
Das Rheingold | Mime | |
Der fliegende Holländer | Steuermannn | |
Die Meistersinger v. Nürnberg | David | |
Parsifal | 3rd Knappe | |
Siegfried | Mime | |
Tannhäuser | Heinrich der Schreiber | |
Walther von der Vogelweide | ||
Tristan und Isolde | A shepherd | |
Weill | Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny | Tobby Higgins |
Zemlinsky | Der Zwerg | Zwerg |
Repertoire Operette, Musical & Show
L. Fall | Madame Pompadour | Calicot |
J. Hermann | Hello Dolly | Barnaby |
I. Kuusisto | Kiljusten Kalevala | Luru |
E. Künneke | Glückliche Reise | Stefan |
F. Lehár | Die lustige Witwe | Raoul de St Brioche |
A. Lloyd-Webber | Jesus Christ Superstar | Judas |
J. Offenbach | La Vie Parisienne | Le Brésilien |
Orpheus | Mercur | |
Blaubart | Daphnis | |
K. Weill | Die sieben Todsünden | 1st tenor |
J. Strauss | Zigeunerbaron | Ottokar |
Stein&Bock | Anatevka | Sascha |
S. Sondheim | Sweeny Todd | Tobias |
Var. | Hype | Juuso |
News

Joint success: Das Rheingold in Helsinki
This year’s season at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki began with the premiere of the first part of the new Ring Cycle production. Marjukka Tepponen will debut as Woglinde and Tuomas Katajala as Loge, Tuomas Pursio interprets Donner and Dan Karlström the role of Mime under the batton of Esa-Pekka Salonen,Enjoy it live on these days: September 10/14/18
Or on demand via: www.areena.yle.fi/...
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Press
Das Rheingold / Grand Théâtre de Genève / 14.02.19 / olyrix.com
"un luxe tant le matériau vocal prône le beau et l'intelligence"
Das Rheingold / Grand Théâtre de Genève / 12.02.19 / opera-online.com
"la formidable projection de son timbre clair et ses talents de comédiens"