Peter Svensson

Peter Svensson (Austria) became the great hope among the young generation of Heldentenors when he gained international acclaim for his major success as Rienzi at the Prague State Opera in 1991. Noticed by Claudio Abbado, he came to the Vienna State Opera with a beginner's contract at the start of the 1990-91 season. Since 1992 he has performed at La Scala in Milan, the Opéra Comique in Paris, the German Opera in Berlin, and theaters in Hamburg, Prague, Cologne, Rome, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Athens, Modena, Bonn, Bologna, Hannover, Geneva, Tokyo. He has performed under such conductors like Claudio Abbado, James Conlon, John Eliot Gardiner, Leopold Hager, Neeme Järvi, Jiří Kout, Charles Mackerras, Georg Solti, Pinchas Steinberg and others. His operatic repertoire is broad, but recently he has been concentrating on German heroic roles.