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 Opéra national de Paris, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Nederlandse Reisopera Amsterdam, La Monnaie in Brussels, State Theater of Stara Zagora (Bulgaria), Aalto-Theater Essen as well as at the opera houses of Lausanne, Karlsruhe and Ústi nad Labem (Czech Republic). In the season 2013/14 he made his debut at Metropolitan Opera NY (Baron Ochs/Der Rosenkavalier), at the Cincinnati Opera and at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Rúni Brattaberg worked together with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Andrew Davis, Edward Gardner, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Leif Segerstam, Thomas Hengelbrock, Constantin Trinks, Axel Kober, Stefan Soltesz and Ulf Schirmer.
 
From the season 2014/15 he was a member of the ensemble of the Oper Leipzig, where he sang roles such as Großinquisitor/Don Carlo, Landgraf Hermann/Tannhäuser, Fasolt/Das Rheingold, Hunding/Die Walküre, Fafner/Siegfried, Hagen/Götterdämmerung, Gurnemanz/Parsifal and Eremit/Der Freischütz.

In 2018/19 he will take over the roles of Fafner/Das Rheingold at Staatstheater Kassel as well as Hunding/Die Walküre at Teatro di San Carlo under the baton of Juraj Valčuha.

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Photo: Hans Jörg Michel

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