Bjarni Thor Kristinsson was born in Iceland in 1967. He studied voice
at the Söngskolinn in Reykjavik and with Helene Karusso and Curt Malm
in Vienna.
Between 1997 and 2000 the bass was a soloist at the Volksoper Vienna,
where he interpreted numerous important roles of his repertoire including
Bottom in Britten’s »Midsummer night ́s dream«,
Pimen in »Boris Godunow«
and Pogner in »Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg«.
At the Staatsoper Berlin he gave his debut as
Van Bett in »Zar und
Zimmermann« and interpreted Osmin in the of production of Mozart’s »Die
Entführung aus dem Serail«, Baron Ochs in »Der Rosenkavalier« as well
as Bartolo in »Le nozze di Figaro«.
Further Engagements around the World include Productions at
Hamburgischen
Staatsoper, Dresdner Semperoper, Bayerischen Staatsoper
München, Deutschen
Oper am Rhein, Oper Frankfurt, Badischen Staatstheater Karlsruhe,
Lyric
Opera of Chicago, Opéra Bastille Paris,
Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona,
in Lissabon, Rom, Verona, Palermo, Firenze, Venedig, Bari, Napoli,
New
National Theater Tokyo, Peking, Opéra de Monte Carlo, the
Icelandic
Opera and Theater an der Wien.
The two major Roles of the bass are Baron Ochs in Strauss’s »Der
Rosenkavalier« and Osmin in Mozart’s «Die Entführung aus dem Serail«
as well as almost every Wagner-Bass-Role (Gurnemanz, Daland, Pogner,
König Heinrich, Köning Marke, Wotan, Fafner, Hunding and Hagen).
Future Engagements include Baron Ochs (Rosenkavalier) at
Deutsche
Oper am Rhein - Düsseldorf, Wotan/Wanderer in a new Wagner-Ring-Production
in Kassel, Il Commentatore (Don Giovanni) at
NCPA Peking and Tremouille
(Jeanne d’Arc) at Oper Köln.
