Tómas Tómasson (Iceland)

Baritone — Don Pizzaro

HGO appearance: Count Tomsky in The Queen of Spades (2010).

About the Artist: After a successful career as a bass, Tómasson recently changed to the baritone repertory. Role debuts in his new repertoire include Holländer in Der fliegende Holländer, Tomsky in The Queen of Spades at HGO and in Brussels and San Francisco, and the title role in Wozzeck at Opéra de Nancy. Other engagements include Tonio in Pagliacci, Sprecher in The Magic Flute, the protagonist in Leonardo Balada’s Faust bal, the title roles in Rigoletto and Don Giovanni, his debut in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg playing Hans Sachs, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, Jochanaan in Salome, Giorgio Germont in La traviata, Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana, and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte. He has performed in leading venues including Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Berlin Staatsoper, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Teatro Real in Madrid, and at the Liceu in Barcelona and the Komische Oper in Berlin. He has performed with Vlaamse Opera, Baltimore Opera Company, Opéra de Nancy, Royal Danish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opéra Montecarlo, Bayerische Staatsoper, the Netherlands and Minnesota operas, and Lyric Opera of Chicago, among others. He has worked with such conductors as Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Antonio Pappano, Mark Elder, Carlo Rizzi, René Jacobs, Donald Runnicles, Christian Badea, Michel Plasson, Massimo Zanetti, Kazushi Ono, and Daniele Callegari.