Icelandic baritone Kristjian Johannesson is currently studying at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (MUK).
For the 2017/18 season, the young baritone will make his Theater an der Wien debut as Starveling in Britten’s Midsummer Nights Dream, and will also sing Conte in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro as part of the prestigious Angelika Prokopp Sommerakademie of the Vienna Philharmonic, with appearances in various cities in Austria and at the Vienna Konzerthaus. In February 2017 he returned to the Neue Oper Wien to sing the role of Jan in Panisello’s opera Le Malentendu at the Semperdepot and for a tour in Madrid. In 2015/16 he made his Neue Oper Wien debut with the roles of Nauarchos and Brasidas in Krenek’s Pallas Athene weint, and was also heard as Guglielmo (Cosi fan Tutte) for his debut with the Angelika Prokopp Sommerakademie and members of the Vienna Philharmonic at the Vienna Konzerthaus, and in Salzburg and Graz.
Past engagements also include Escamillio in Bizet’s Carmen at the Icelandic Opera, and numerous concerts at prestigious locations such as the Vienna Musikverein and in various theaters in Italy, Island and the US. From 2008 until 2013 he was enrolled at the Sigurdur Demetz School of Vocal Arts in Reykjavik and engagements as Sir Richard Forth in Bellini’s I Puritani, Sylvan & He in Purcell’s King Arthur, the title role of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Bartolo in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and as speaker in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte marked the beginning of his career in Iceland.
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