Aage Haugland

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

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

Discography

• With Reginald Goodall: Götterdämmerung (as Hagen - sung in English )
• With Claudio Abbado: Khovanshchina (as Ivan Chowanski ), Wozzeck ( as a doctor )
• With Mstislav Rostropovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk ( as a policeman )
• With Myung- Whun Chung: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (as Boris Timofejewitsch )
• With Georg Solti: Moses und Aron ( as a priest )
• With Armin Jordan: Parsifal (as Klingsor )
• With Dmitri Kitajenko: Boris Godunov ( Boris, Pimen and Varlaam )
• With Jerzy Semkow: Boris Godunov (as Pimen )
• With Georg Solti: Der Rosenkavalier (as Ochs Lerchenau )