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John Lundgren
John Lundgren
Birth name	John Otto Lundgren
Born	12 October 1968 (age 56)
Genres	Opera
Occupation	Opera singer
Instrument	Vocals

John Otto Lundgren (born 12 October 1968) 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.^[1]^[2]
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 (Sweden). In 2016 he sang Devlin in the premiere of Notorious (opera based on the Hitchcock movie with the same name) 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 autumn 2017 John debuted at the Dutch National Opera as Simone^[3] in Eine florentinische Tragödie.

In 2018, John participated for the third consecutive year at Bayreuther Festspiele. This time in two roles, Wotan^[4] in Die Walküre and the title role of the Flying Dutchman, Der Holländer.^[5] Later 2018 he will take part in the production of Wagner's Ring at The Royal Opera House London.^[6]

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 (Royal Swedish Opera House, 2012)^[7]
Händel – Giulio Cesare (Royal Danish Theater, 2007)

Repertoire

Lundgren´s repertoire includes:^[8]


Year (debut)	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^[9]	Baron Scarpia	Royal Swedish Opera
2011	Giacomo Puccini	La Fanciulla del West^[10]^[11]	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^[12]	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^[13]	Bayerischer Staatsoper München
2018	Richard Wagner	Siegfried	Alberich^[14]	Bayerischer Staatsoper München
2018	Richard Wagner	Die Walküre	Wotan^[4]	Bayreuther Festspiele
2018	Richard Wagner	Der Fliegende Holländer	Der Holländer^[5]	Bayreuther Festspiele
2018	Richard Wagner	Das Rheingold	Wotan^[15]^[16]	Royal Opera House
2018	Richard Wagner	Die Walküre	Wotan^[17]	Royal Opera House
2018	Richard Wagner	Siegfried	Der Wanderer^[18]	Royal Opera House
2016, 2017	Richard Wagner	Die Walküre	Wotan^[19]	Bayreuther Festspiele
	Richard Wagner	Ring des Nibelungen	Alberich
2017	Alexander von Zemlinsky	Eine florentinische Tragödie	Simone	Dutch National Opera