John Lundgren (baritone)
John Otto Lundgren is a Swedish dramatic baritone opera singer.
Life
Educated at Vadstena Academy and in The Opera Academy in Copenhagen. During his studies he joined the ensemble of The Royal Danish Theatre and debuted as Schaunard in La Bohème. Since then he has frequently been singing in stagings in The Royal Danish Theatre, e.g. Enrico Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor, Posa in Don Carlos, Amonasro in Aida, Scarpia in Tosca, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, and the title role of Der Fliegende Holländer. He has continued to sing many of these roles internationally and also adding to them by singing Carlo Gérard in Andrea Chenier in Bregenzer Festspiele and Jack Rance in the Stockholm staging of La Fanciulla del West in 2011/12.Lundgren has also sung contemporary opera. In 2005, he sang the part of Prospero in The Tempest by Thomas Adès and four roles in one and the same opera - Cecilia and the Monkey King by Reine Jönsson in Drottningholm. In 2016 he sang Devlin in the premiere of Notorious together with Nina Stemme.
In 2016 he also expanded his classical dramatic baritone repertoire by singing Wotan in Bayreuth, repeating that part in Stockholm in a single revival of the 2006 staging of Der Ring des Nibelungen directed by Staffan Valdemar Holm. In the fall of 2017, John debuted at the Dutch National Opera as Simone in Eine florentinische Tragödie.
In 2018, John participated for the third consecutive year at Bayreuther Festspiele. This time in two roles, Wotan in Die Walküre and the title role of the Flying Dutchman, Der Holländer. Later 2018 he will take part in the production of Wagner's Ring at The Royal Opera House London.
Awards
- In 2006, John Lundgren received the Birgit Nilsson Scholarship for being one of the few Scandinavian-born dramatic baritones of his generation.
- In 2010, Lundgren was honoured Knight of Dannebrog by HM The Queen of Denmark.
Recordings
- Puccini – La fanciulla del West
- Händel – Giulio Cesare
Repertoire
| Year | Composer | Opera | Role | Location |
| Thomas Adès | The Tempest | Prospero | ||
| 2007 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Fidelio | Don Pizarro | Den Jyske Opera |
| Alban Berg | Wozzeck | Wozzeck | ||
| Georges Bizet | Carmen | Escamillo | ||
| Benjamin Britten | Rape of Lucretia | Tarquinius | ||
| Claude Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande | Golaud | ||
| Gaetano Donizetti | Don Pasquale | Malatesta | ||
| Gaetano Donizetti | Lucia di Lammermoor | Lord Enrico Ashton | ||
| 2012 | Umberto Giordano | Andrea Chénier | Carlo Gérard | Bregenzer Festspiele |
| George Frideric Handel | Giulio Cesare | Curio | ||
| Reine Jönsson | The Monkey King | Divers | ||
| Rued Langgaard | Antikrist | The hate | ||
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Don Giovanni | Leporello | ||
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Così fan tutte | Guglielmo / Don Alfonso | ||
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | Sprecher | ||
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Le Nozze di Figaro | Conte Almaviva | ||
| 2018 | Giacomo Puccini | Tosca | Baron Scarpia | Royal Swedish Opera |
| 2011 | Giacomo Puccini | La Fanciulla del West | Jack Rance | Royal Swedish Opera |
| Gioachino Rossini | Il Signor Bruschino | Gaudenzi | ||
| Gioachino Rossini | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Bartolo | ||
| Gioachino Rossini | Il Viaggio à Reims | Don Profondo | ||
| Richard Strauss | Capriccio | Haushofmeister | ||
| Richard Strauss | Elektra | Orest | ||
| Richard Strauss | Die Frau ohne Schatten | Barak | ||
| 2019 | Peter Tchaikovsky | Pique Dame | Graf Tomski | Royal Opera House |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Il Trovatore | Conte di Luna | ||
| Giuseppe Verdi | Nabucco | Nabucco | ||
| Giuseppe Verdi | La Traviata | Giorgio Germont | ||
| Giuseppe Verdi | Simon Boccanegra | Paolo Albiani | ||
| Giuseppe Verdi | Don Carlos | Posa | ||
| Giuseppe Verdi | Aida | Amonasro | ||
| Giuseppe Verdi | Otello | Jago | ||
| Giuseppe Verdi | Macbeth | Macbeth | ||
| 2016 | Richard Wagner | Siegfried | Der Wanderer | Bayreuther Festspiele |
| 2017 | Richard Wagner | Siegfried | Wotan | Royal Swedish Opera |
| Richard Wagner | Der Fliegende Holländer | Holländer | ||
| Richard Wagner | Lohengrin | Telramund | ||
| Richard Wagner | Tristan und Isolde | Kurwenal | ||
| Richard Wagner | Parsifal | Amfortas | ||
| 2018 | Richard Wagner | Das Rheingold | Alberich | Bayerischer Staatsoper München |
| 2018 | Richard Wagner | Siegfried | Alberich | Bayerischer Staatsoper München |
| 2018 | Richard Wagner | Die Walküre | Wotan | Bayreuther Festspiele |
| 2018 | Richard Wagner | Der Fliegende Holländer | Der Holländer | Bayreuther Festspiele |
| 2018 | Richard Wagner | Das Rheingold | Wotan | Royal Opera House |
| 2018 | Richard Wagner | Die Walküre | Wotan | Royal Opera House |
| 2018 | Richard Wagner | Siegfried | Der Wanderer | Royal Opera House |
| 2016, 2017 | Richard Wagner | Die Walküre | Wotan | Bayreuther Festspiele |
| Richard Wagner | Ring des Nibelungen | Alberich | ||
| 2017 | Alexander von Zemlinsky | Eine florentinische Tragödie | Simone | Dutch National Opera |