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 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 |
News
Wolfsteiner, Prudenskaya, Brattaberg: All in the Dresden Ring!
This fall at the Dresden Philharmonic, three of our artists can be heard at the Ring of the Dresden Philharmonic under Marek Janowski. Vincent Wolfsteiner (tenor), Marina Prudenskaya (mezzo) and Rúni Brattaberg (bass) will all take on roles in Wagner's opus magnum, Der Ring der Nibelungen. Wolfsteiner can be seen in the title role of Siegfried, Götterdämmerung and Siegmund, Prudenskaya as Fricka and Waltraute, and Brattaberg as Fafner and Hagen.Performance dates:
30.09.2022 - Das Rheingold
02.10.2022 - Die Walküre
08.10.2022 - Siegfried
15.10.2022 - Götterdämmerung
Media
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PortraitPhoto: Hans Jörg Michel
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Video
Der Ring des Nibelungen /HagenOdense Symfoniorkester
Interview / Behind the scenes
Press
RING / Dresdner Philharmonie / 17.10.2022 / ioco.de
"Mit der Schwärze seines Basses konnte Rúni Brattaberg in perfekter Dicktion und repräsentabler Resonanz den Hagen-Drahtzieher allein durch seine Art des Singens die HInterlist und charakterliche Boshaftigkeit offerieren."
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"