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 1999-2000After 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 2014/15 season he was a member of the ensemble at the Leipzig Opera, 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. Other roles are Sparafucile/Rigoletto, Fafner/Das Rheingold, Lo zio Bonzo/ Madama Butterfly and Hunding/Die Walküre.
In the 2022/23 season he will take on the roles of Fafner/Siegfried and Hagen/Götterdämmerung at the Dresden Philharmonic.
Artist Website
www.runibrattaberg.comManagement
Worldwide non-exclusiveArtist Manager

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

Natascha van Randenborgh
Associate Director
natascha@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-173-7 76 88 20

Ingunn Sighvatsdóttir
Artist Manager
ingunn@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-173-2 067 821
Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
Bach, J.S. | St. John Passion |
Beethoven | Symphony no 9 |
Haydn | The Creation |
Mendelssohn | Paulus |
Verdi | Requiem |
Repertoire Opera
Beethoven | Fidelio | Rocco |
Berg | Wozzeck | Doktor |
Britten | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Peter Quince |
Monteverdi | L'Incoronazione di Poppea | Seneca |
Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Osmin |
Die Zauberflöte | Sarastro | |
Sprecher | ||
Don Giovanni | Commendatore | |
Prokofiev | The Love for Three Oranges | King of Clubs |
Puccini | Madama Butterfly | Bonzo |
Turandot | Timur | |
Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Basilio |
Sallinen | Juha | Tervamies |
Kullervo | Merikanto | |
Tiera | ||
Strauss, R. | Ariadne auf Naxos | Truffaldino |
Der Rosenkavalier | Baron Ochs | |
Die schweigsame Freu | Sir Morosus | |
Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin | Prince Gremin |
Mazeppa | Orlik | |
Verdi | Aida | Ramphis |
Don Carlo | Filippo | |
Il frate | ||
Il grande inquisitore | ||
La forza del destino | Padra Guardiano | |
Macbeth | Banco | |
Otello | Lodovico | |
Rigoletto | Sparafucile | |
Wagner | Das Rheingold | Fafner |
Fasolt | ||
Der fliegende Holländer | Daland | |
Die Meistersinger v. Nürnberg | Veit Pogner | |
Die Walküre | Hunding | |
Götterdämmerung | Hagen | |
Lohengrin | König Heinrich | |
Parsifal | Gurnemanz | |
Titurel | ||
Siegfried | Fafner | |
Tannhäuser | Landgraf Herrmann | |
Tristan und Isolde | König Marke | |
Weber | Der Freischütz | Caspar |
Eremit |
Media
Images
Photo: Hans Jörg Michel
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Photo: Hans Jörg Michel
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Video

Odense Symfoniorkester
Interview / Behind the scenes
Press
Der Ring des Nibelungen / Oper Leipzig / Juli 2018 / Opera Now
"Brattaberg's Hunding had dark, glowering tone[...], he made a brilliant Fafner[...] and a powerful Hagen"
Der Ring des Nibelungen / Oper Leipzig / 05.-08.05.16 / opernnetz.de
"Idealbesetzung für die beiden Bösewichter"