Valdemar Villadsen in Concert

 Valdemar Villadsen returns with a live concert alongside the Open Air Opera Orchestra, conducted by Juan Ramirez.

Villadsen will also appear in this year’s Digital Opera Concert and is featured as this year’s Artist in Residence. The concert program includes opera arias with music by Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and George Frideric Handel.

Danish tenor Valdemar Villadsen has in recent years established himself as one of the leading high tenors of his generation.

Engagements have brought him to the Staatsoper Berlin – Unter den Linden, Royal Opera House La Monnaie in Brussels, Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, Wiesbaden State Opera, Kiel Opera House, Teatro Principal de Burgos, and concert halls such as the Royal Albert Hall, Berliner Philharmonie, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and festivals such as the Bergen International Festival, Styriarte Festival in Graz, Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, Heinrich Schütz Musikfest, Rossini Festival, Open Air Opera Berlin, Festival de Música Antigua, Copenhagen Opera Festival, and Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden. He has performed acclaimed solo recitals in Paris, Rome, Istanbul, Berlin and Basel.

His opera roles include Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Lindoro in Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri, Don Ramiro in Rossinis La Cenerentola, Gualtiero in Bellini’s Il pirata, Castor in Rameau’s Castor et Pollux, title role in Rameau’s Pigmalion, Glaucus in Leclair’s Scylla et Glaucus, Apollo in Cavalli’s Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne, Seth in Franz Danksagmüller’s Nova – Imperfecting Perfection, Blake in Bernard Fouccroulle’s Cassandra, Asger in Signe Lykke’s Nordkraft, Adam in Svend Nielsen’s Chains and Officer in Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten.

Cast:

Valdemar Villadsen, tenor

Juan Ramirez, conductor 

Open Air Opera Orchestra