Runi
Brattaberg Bass

Rúni Brattaberg comes from the Faroe Islands and initially trained as a documentary photographer in Copenhagen before beginning his vocal training at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 1997 and continuing it at the Zurich Opera Studio. After initial engagements in Mainz, Ulm and Bern, he was first bass at the Mannheim National Theatre from 09-11, where he sang roles such as Gurnemanz, Hagen, Hunding, Fafner, Veit Pogner, Basilio, Timur, Sarastro, Baron Ochs and Osmin. He has made guest appearances at the Opéra national de Paris, Hamburg State Opera, La Monnaie in Brussels, Aalto Theatre Essen, Dresden Semperoper as well as in Lausanne and Ústi nad Labem (Czech Republic). In America, he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, at the Cincinnati Opera and at the Chicago Lyric Opera. He has worked with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Andrew Davis, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Thomas Hengelbrock, Stefan Soltesz and Ulf Schirmer. From 2014-18, he was a member of the ensemble at Leipzig Opera, where he sang roles such as Grand Inquisitor ('Don Carlos'), Landgrave Hermann ('Tannhäuser'), Fasolt ('Das Rheingold'), Hunding ('Die Walküre'), Fafner ('Siegfried'), Gurnemanz ('Parsifal') and Hermit ('Der Freischütz'). In 22/23 he sang Fafner and Hagen in the concertante Dresden 'Ring' with the Dresden Philharmonic under Marek Janowski. Recent engagements include Jacopo Fiesco ('Simon Boccanegra') and Prince Gremin ('Jewgeni Onegin') at the Lübeck Theatre and Hagen ('Götterdämmerung') at the Finnish National Opera.