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Simon Duus Svendsen (Bass-Baritone)

Born: October 24, ____ - Frederiksværk, Denmark

The Danish bass-baritone, Simon Duus Svendsen, studied singing at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Bodil Øland. He graduated in 2011 from the Opera Academy of the Royal Opera Copenhagen. His teachers included Susanna Eken, Rachel Andrist, Ouri Bronchti, Philip Langridge, Mikael Eliassen, Martin Isepp, James Johnson and Fiona McSherry. Roles that he worked on at the Opera Academy were u. a. W.A. Mozart's Figaro, Leporello and Don Giovanni. He was a student in the Mozart class 2010 at the Festival Aix-en Provence. There he sang the Nardo in W.A. Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera in a semi-staged production, which was broadcast by arte-TV. He received the Bayreuth Scholarship in 2013.

Engagements have led lead Simon Duus Svendsen as Henrik in Maskerade to the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, as Colline in La Bohème to the Danish National Opera. With the Aarhaus Symphony Orchestra he was heard successfully as a soloist in Ralph Vaughan Williams' song cycle Songs of Travelr. At the Tivoli Festival he sang the role of Domingo in Emil Reesen's operetta Farinelli. He received the best reviews as a soloist on the occasion of a Verdi gala with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.

The dramatic quality of his voice as a soloist was particularly important in productions of the Royal Theater such as Francis Poulenc's Dialogue of Carmelites or Boris Godunov. As a Lieder and concert singer he has been heard so far with Schubert's Winterreise and Schwanengesang, as well as in numerous cantatas and oratorios. He currently lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.



Source: Theater und Orchester Heidelberg Website, English translation by Aryeh Oron (August 2018); Simon Duus profile on Facebook; Photo 02: Jacob Christian Hansen
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Aryeh Oron (August 2018)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Jonathan Ofir

Bass

With Copenhagen Soloists:
[V-3] (2013, Video): BWV 244

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Simon Duus Svendsen (Theater und Orchester Heidelberg) [German]
Simon Duus on Facebook


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