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Ingvar Wixell
Ingvar Wixell
	Ingvar Wixell at the 1965 Melodifestivalen with the song "Absent Friend".
Background information
Birth name	Karl Gustaf Ingvar Wixell
Born	7 May 1931; Luleå, Sweden
Died	8 October 2011 (aged 80); Malmö, Sweden
Genres	Opera
Occupation	Singer
Years active	1955–2003

Karl Gustaf Ingvar Wixell^[1] (7 May 1931^[2] – 8 October 2011) was a Swedish baritone who had an active international career in operas and concerts from 1955 to 2003. He mostly sang roles from the Italian repertory, and, according to The New York Times, "was best known for his steady-toned, riveting portrayals of the major baritone roles of Giuseppe Verdi — among them Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Amonasro in Aida, and Germont in La traviata".^[3]

Life and career

Ingvar Wixell was born in Luleå in 1931. After studies at the Stockholm Academy of Music, he made his debut in Gävle in 1952,^[4] then in 1955 as Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm where he was member of the company until 1967.^[5]

He made his British debut during the Royal Swedish Opera's visit to the Edinburgh International Festival in 1959.^[6] Wixell returned with this company to Royal Opera House in 1960, and sang Guglielmo at Glyndebourne and at the Proms in 1962. For the Royal Opera, London he sang Boccanegra in 1972. In America he appeared at Chicago Lyric Opera (Belcore, 1967) and the Metropolitan Opera (Rigoletto, 1973).^[5]

He was engaged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1967 where he was a member for more than 30 years.^[7] At Salzburg he sang a noted Pizarro at the Festival, where he appeared from 1966 to 1969,^[4] and at Bayreuth he sang the Herald in Lohengrin (1971).

Among other roles, Wixell sang Figaro in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen, Amonasro in Verdi's Aida, Baron Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca, and the title roles in Verdi's Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Mozart's Don Giovanni, Verdi's Falstaff and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.

Wixell performed all the songs in the competition to select Sweden's Eurovision Song Contest 1965 entry. The winning song was "Annorstädes Vals" (Elsewhere Waltz), which Wixell went on to perform at the international final in Naples. In a break from the then prevailing tradition, the song was sung in English (as "Absent Friend"). This led to the introduction from 1966 onwards of a rule stipulating that each country's entry must be sung in one of the languages of that country.

In 1991, he was awarded the Illis quorum by the government of Sweden.^[8]

Wixell ended his career in 2003 by singing the Music teacher in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos at Malmö Opera.

Wixell died in Malmö on 8 October 2011,^[9] aged 80, survived by his wife, Margareta, and his two daughters, Marit and Jette.^[3]

Selected recordings

Mozart, Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, conducted by Sir Colin Davis, 1971, with Jessye Norman
Larsson, Förklädd gud, conducted by Stig Westerberg, 1968–1974
Mozart, Don Giovanni, conducted by Colin Davis, 1973
Verdi, Cavaliere di Belfiore in Un giorno di regno, conducted by Lamberto Gardelli, 1973
Puccini, Baron Scarpia in Tosca, conducted by Colin Davis, 1976, with Montserrat Caballé
Verdi, Count di Luna in Il trovatore, conducted by Richard Bonynge, 1976, with Dame Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Horne
Donizetti, Belcore in L'elisir d'amore, conducted by Sir John Pritchard, 1977, with Plácido Domingo
Donizetti, Don Alfonso in Lucrezia Borgia, conducted by Richard Bonynge, 1977
Leoncavallo, Tonio in Pagliacci, conducted by Giuseppe Patanè, 1977, with Mirella Freni
Puccini, Michele in Il tabarro, conducted by Lorin Maazel, with Renata Scotto, 1977
Puccini, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, conducted by Lorin Maazel, 1978, with Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo and Gillian Knight
Verdi, Renato in Un ballo in maschera, conducted by Colin Davis, 1978–1979, with José Carreras
Puccini, Marcello in La bohème, conducted by Colin Davis, 1979, with Katia Ricciarelli
Sjöberg, Fridas Visor, conducted by Åke Jelving, 1960
Verdi, Rigoletto in Rigoletto, conducted by Riccardo Chailly, 1983, with Edita Gruberová and Luciano Pavarotti, a film directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Puccini, Baron Scarpia in Tosca, conducted by Daniel Oren, 1990, with Raina Kabaivanska
Svenska ballader (Swedish ballads), by August Söderman, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm Stenhammar and Ture Rangström, conducted by Johan Arnell, 1997

References

^ "Ingvar Wixell". 7 May 1931. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
^ "1048 (Vem är det : Svensk biografisk handbok / 1969)".
^ ^a ^b Zachary Woolfe (19 October 2011). "Ingvar Wixell, Swedish Baritone, Dies at 80". The New York Times.
^ ^a ^b Alain Pâris. Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interprétation musicale au XX siècle. Éditions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1995 (p988).
^ ^a ^b Forbes E. Ingvar Wixell. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.
^ Fraser, Stephen 2014 Ingvar Wixell OperaScotland http://www.operascotland.org/person/2944/Ingvar+Wixell
^ Sørensen, Inger, 1993, Operalexikonet, p. 622.
^ "Regeringens belöningsmedaljer och regeringens utmärkelse: Professors namn". Regeringskansliet (in Swedish). January 2006. Archived from the original on 2 November 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
^ En stor operastjärna har slocknat, obituary in Dagens Nyheter 10 October 2011

External links

Ingvar Wixell at IMDb
Discography (Capon's Lists of Opera Recordings)

Preceded by Monica Zetterlund with "En gång i Stockholm"	Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1965	Succeeded by Lill Lindfors and Svante Thuresson with "Nygammal vals"

[1] "Ingvar Wixell". 7 May 1931. Retrieved 26 February 2017.

[2] "1048 (Vem är det : Svensk biografisk handbok / 1969)".

[NYTimesobit-3] Zachary Woolfe (19 October 2011). "Ingvar Wixell, Swedish Baritone, Dies at 80". The New York Times.

[aparis-4] Alain Pâris. Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interprétation musicale au XX siècle. Éditions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1995 (p988).

[Grove-5] Forbes E. Ingvar Wixell. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.

[6] Fraser, Stephen 2014 Ingvar Wixell OperaScotland http://www.operascotland.org/person/2944/Ingvar+Wixell

[7] Sørensen, Inger, 1993, Operalexikonet, p. 622.

[8] "Regeringens belöningsmedaljer och regeringens utmärkelse: Professors namn". Regeringskansliet (in Swedish). January 2006. Archived from the original on 2 November 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2022.

[9] En stor operastjärna har slocknat, obituary in Dagens Nyheter 10 October 2011

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