Aage Haugland

Aage Haugland (born February 1, 1944 in Copenhagen , † December 23, 2000 in Lillerød ) was a Danish opera singer ( bass , also bass-baritone ) of Norwegian descent. In the 1980s in particular, he was in international demand as an accent-free interpreter of German ( Wagner , Strauss ) and Russian roles ( Mussorgsky , Shostakovich ), but also sang Italian roles ( Verdi ).

Life

Haugland studied in Copenhagen and made his debut in Oslo in 1968 . In addition to his more famous colleagues Martti Talvela and Matti Salminen , he was considered the most impressive and versatile Scandinavian bass of his generation due to his powerful and sensual voice as well as his large stage presence .

Discography

With Reginald Goodall : Götterdämmerung (as Hagen - sung in English)
With Claudio Abbado : Chowanschtschina (as Iwan Chowanski), Wozzeck (as doctor)
With Mstislaw Leopoldowitsch Rostropowitsch : Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (as a policeman)
With Myung-Whun Chung : Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (as Boris Timofejewitsch)
With Georg Solti : Moses and Aron (as priests)
With Armin Jordan : Parsifal (as Klingsor)
With Dmitri Kitajenko : Boris Godunow (as Boris, Pimen and Warlaam)
With Jerzy Semkow : Boris Godunow (as Pimen)
With Georg Solti : Der Rosenkavalier (as Ochs auf Lerchenau)

Web links

Works by and about Aage Haugland in the catalog of the German National Library
Aage Haugland at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

personal data
SURNAME	Haugland, Aage
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish opera singer (bass, also bass baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH	December 23, 2000
Place of death	Lillerød