Jyrki Niskanen

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Jyrki Niskanen (born February 12, 1956 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Niskanen began his musical career as an entertainment musician with piano, keyboard and accordion. He studied piano at the Sibelius Academy and earned a diploma in improvisation and accompaniment. He studied singing at the Sibelius Academy and completed his training with Vera Rózsa in London and with Peter Berne in Vienna and Berlin.

Niskanen is known as a heroic tenor for his supple, strong voice with a dramatic timbre. His sonorous tenor is just as suitable for strong Wagner roles as it is for Italian operas.

Jyrki Niskanen made his debut at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 1992 , from where he was engaged directly at the Zurich Opera House as the main tenor in Beethoven's Fidelio . Since then he has appeared in the most important opera houses in Europe, America and Australia. He has, among others, all the great tenor roles of the Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner sung (Loge in Das Rheingold, Siegmund in Die Walküre, Siegfried in Siegfried and Götterdämmerung). In 1999 he appeared as Tristan in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in the Prinzregententheater in Munich under the direction of Lorin Maazel. The love duet from Tristan and Isolde with Niskanen and Luana DeVol is included in the recording on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the opera house.

Lots

  • Beethoven: Fidelio, “Florestan” ( Savonlinna Opera Festival 1992, 1993, Zurich Opera 1992, Ludwigsburg Music Festival 1993, Barcelona Opera 1995, Athens 1995, Madrid 1995, Bregenz 1995, Rio de Janeiro 1996, Helsinki 1997, Vienna 2000, 2003, Krakow 2001, Berlin 2002)
  • Berg: Wozzeck, “The Captain” (Milan 1997)
  • Dallapiccola: Il Prigionero, “Il Carceriere and L'Inquisitore” (Turin 1995)
  • Donizetti: Regiment's Daughter, “Tonio” (Tampere Opera 1986)
  • Heininen: The Knife “Pamppu” (Savonlinna Opera Festival 1989, 1990)
  • Janáček: The Case Makropulos “Albert Gregor” (Bologna Opera 1994)
  • Korngold: The dead city “Paul” (Catania 1996)
  • Leoncavallo: Pagliacci “Canio” (Savonlinna 1997, 1998, 1999)
  • Linkola: Elina “Vicar” (Finnish National Opera 1992)
  • Schrecker: The Drawn, “Alviano Salvago” (Zurich Opera 1992)
  • Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, “Sergei” (Florence 1998)
  • Strauss: Daphne, “Apollo” (Linz 1999, Amsterdam 2002)
  • Verdi: Aida, "Radames" (Catania 2002)
  • Verdi: La Traviata, “Alfredo” (Finnish National Opera 1989)
  • Verdi: La Forza del Destino, “Alvaro” (Savonlinna Opera Festival 1998)
  • Verdi: Macbeth “McDuff” (Savonlinna Opera Festival 1993, 1996, Athens 1997)
  • Wagner: Walküre, “Siegmund” (Paris Chatelet 1994, Rome, 1st act 1995, Vienna 1996, 1997, 1998, London / Norwich 1997, Barcelona 1998, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 1999, Las Palmas 1999, Catania 2001)
  • Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, “Tristan” (Barcelona 1996, Nice 1998, Genoa 1998, Washington 1999, Munich 1999, Florence 1999, Berlin 2001)
  • Wagner: Lohengrin, “Lohengrin” (Nice 1997, Sevilla 1999)
  • Wagner: Siegfried, “Siegfried” (Sydney 1999, Catania 2002)
  • Wagner: Rheingold, “Loge” (Catania 2000)
  • Wagner: Götterdämmerung, "Siegfried" ( Teatro Massimo Bellini , Catania 2003)
  • Zemlinsky: A Florentine Tragedy, “Guido Bardi” (Florence 1995)

Sound carrier

  • Arias and Love Songs (1994)
  • Holy Night (1996)
  • Beethoven 9th symphony (with Orchestra La Scala, conductor Riccardo Muti) (1998)
  • Operettas (with Eva Martón and Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln) (1998)
  • Tristan und Isolde "high lights" (as Tristan, with Lorin Maazel) (2001)
  • Kulkuset ja kellot soivat, Christmas Songs (2004)
  • Pienoisen lapsen ääreen hiljennyn (2009)
  • Atlantic Sky: Piano Solos, own compositions (2011)
  • Joulun tähden: Christmas Songs, own compositions (2011)
  • The Greatest Tenor Arias, Hienoimmat ooppera-aariat (2012)

literature

Kuka kukin on 2011. Who's Who in Finland 2011. Otava, 2011, ISBN 978-951-1-24712-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tristan and Isolde ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterakademie.de
  2. ^ Half a winner - again in Concertonet.com
  3. ^ 2003 opera season , Teatro Massimo Bellini
personal data
SURNAME Niskanen, Jyrki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki