Audun Iversen

Norwegian baritone Audun Iversen began singing at the age of 22. In Spring 2005, he graduated from the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo, where he studied with professors Håkan Hagegård and Svein Bjørkøy. Audun furthered his studies at the Opera Academy Copenhagen and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, where, during the 2007-08 season, he performed Schaunard in La bohème and Viscomte Cascada in The Merry Widow with the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen.

A multi award-winning artist, Audun received First Prize in the Queen Sonja International Music Competition in Oslo in 2007 (where he was the first singer to win the newly founded Ingrid Bjoner Scholarship), was a finalist in the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition, was awarded the Danish Reumert Talent Award for 2009 at the official Danish award ceremony for stage arts, was HSBC laureate at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and 2010 recipient of the Aalborg Opera Prize.

Some operatic highlights of recent seasons, to mention a few: il Conte in Le Nozze di Figaro for Royal Danish Opera and Glyndebourne Festival. The title role Eugene Onegin for Royal Danish Opera, Opéra de Lille, the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow and English National Opera. Albert in Werther at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (conducted by Antonio Pappano) and Opernhaus Zürich. Marcello in La bohème at the Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera and Royal Danish Opera – and the title role in Wozzeck for Oper Frankfurt and The Norwegian Opera & Ballet, Oslo.

Audun Iversen also sung the roles as Frank and Fritz in The Dead City (Die tote Stadt) by Korngold spring 2023 at English National Opera, directed by Annilese Miskmimmon. Season 2023/24 he also interpreted Giorgio Germont in La traviata at the National Theatre i Prague.

Before arriving in Bergen this autumn, Iversen was Kurwenal in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde at the opera in Geneva.

After being soloist in Die tote Stadt here i Bergen in November, he will sing the role as Gabriel von Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus at De Nationale Oper in Amsterdam, directed by Barrie Kosky. Spring 2025 he is the Forester in Stefan Herheim's version of the Cunning Little Vixen by Janáček at The Norwegian Opera and Ballet in Oslo.

Main source: The Norwegian Opera and Ballet
Updated autumn 2024