Anders Lorentzson

bass-baritone, was a soloist at the Royal Opera in Stockholm for nine years before taking employment at The Göteborg Opera in 1994. His numerous roles at The Göteborg Opera include the title roles in Figaro’s Wedding and The Flying Dutchman, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Lindorf/Coppelius/Miracle/Dapertutto in The Tale of Hoffmann, Scarpia in Tosca, Don Prudenzio in Viaggio a Reims, Colline in La Bohème, Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, The Doctor in Wozzeck, The Wanderer in Siegfried, Javert in Les Misérables, Géronte in Manon Lescaut, Count Waldner in Arabella, Osmin in The Abduction from the Seraglio and Mephistopheles in Faust, Banc in Macbeth, Frank in Die Fledermaus, Martin Zapater in Goya, Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Philip II in Don Carlos. Anders Lorentzson’s interpretation of Baron von Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier, Wotan in The Valkyrie and the title role in Falstaff are among his most highly-appreciated performances at The Göteborg Opera. During the 2012/2013 season, he will sing The Water Goblin in Rusalka and Jacopo Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra.
His most recent roles here are Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, the title role in Attila, Scarpia in Tosca and Astolfo in Lucrezia Borgia.
In the spring of 2007 Anders Lorentzson was a guest performer at the Vilnius Opera in Lithuania as Wotan in The Valkyrie as well as on their summer tour to Ljubljana in Slovenia and The Ravenna Festival in Italy.