About Håkan Hagegård

Swedish baritone Håkan Hagegård was catapulted to fame with his role of Papageno in Ingmar Bergman's film version of Die Zauberflöte.

“Si parla, si canta” is delighted to welcome his return to its faculty for the third consecutive year.

Mr. Hagegård's career spans four decades, and he has performed at all the major international opera houses and concert halls, including the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna Staatsoper, Opera Bastille, Sydney Opera House, and Deutsche Oper Berlin.

His operatic debut was in 1968 as Papageno with the Stockholm Opera, and his Metropolitan Opera debut followed ten years later as Malatesta in Don Pasquale opposite the Norina of Beverly Sills. His vast operatic repertoire encompasses such varied repertoire as Don Giovanni, Scarpia, Germont, Amfortas, Conte Almaviva, Posa and Figaro. In 1991, he created the role of Beaumarchais in the world premiere production of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles.

Mr. Hagegård has performed and recorded many of the great song cycles, including Schubert's Die Winterreise, Die Schöne Müllerin, and Schwanengesang, Schumann's Dichterliebe, Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch, as well as the songs of Grieg. His recording of the Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem with James Levine won a Grammy Award. In 1999, his recording of Hagegård Sings Brahms, Sibelius and Stenhammar with pianist Warren Jones received a Grammy Award nomination.

In 1985 Mr. Hagegård was appointed vocalist to his majesty, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, and in 1989 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Music in Sweden. He continues to hold his post as professor at the Norwegian Music Academy and is the Director of the Singers’ Studio in Stockholm, Sweden.

Håkan Hagegård will be in residency with “Si parla, si canta” from June 5th to 15th, 2012.