Rúni Brattaberg
Rúni Brattaberg (* 1966 in Vágur, Faroe Islands ) is a Faroese opera singer ( bass) and photographer.
Biography and artistic work
Rúni is the son of Arni and Karin Brattaberg whose woolen mill Sirri is far beyond the borders of the Faroe Islands also known for fashion from Faroese wool today. The children Rúni and sister Durita are a stakeholder in the family business. He is married to German opera singer Susanne Brattaberg.
After his graduation in 1991 went to Copenhagen Rúni Brattaberg to learn there photographer. He completed this doctrine in 1994 successfully and in 1995 appeared as two postage stamps of the Postverk Føroya with landscape photos of him.
But already during the apprenticeship, he discovered a love of opera when his teacher Photography by Folkver the King Philip's aria from Don Carlos was playing. He took singing lessons and found after only 3 months exposure at the Opera in Aarhus, Denmark, where he worked with the bass Aage Haugland.
Then he again went to Copenhagen, where he was engaged as a chorister at the Royal Opera House. Although looked for a safe job, he wanted to be a soloist. In 1997, he left Copenhagen to study at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland Jorma Hynninen and singing with Kim Borg, which he completed in 1999. Following this he worked until 2000 at the International Opera Studio in Zurich. He graduated yet master classes with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, for example, Tom Krause and Matti Salminen. From 2001 to 2003, he was also a student of Ventzeslav Katsarov from Bulgaria.
2001 Brattaberg had his first engagement as a soloist at the State Theatre Mainz. Here he also met his future wife Susanne know, which is also an opera singer. They have worked closely together and inform each other.
2002 Rúni Brattaberg became known to an audience of millions, as he presented the German and Faroese national anthem at football international match of the Faroese national team in Hanover.
2004 wrote the British composer Gavin Bryars two operas that were specifically tailored to Brattaberg and were premiered in London. For the opera From Egil 's Saga, the composer and the singer took to recordings of Brattabergs voice in caves in the Faroe Islands, which were incorporated in the performances by live electronics in the sound.
2005/2006 he was in Bern and of the season 2006/2007 bis 2007/2008 member of the ensemble at the Theater Ulm. In the latter stage, he debuted as a Doctor in Wozzeck. In Ulm, he was, among other things yet to be heard on the following games and see: as Seneca in The Coronation of Poppea, as Kaspar in Der Freischütz, Gremin in Eugene Onegin and as Banquo in Macbeth. Other engagements have taken him to Bonn, at the Opéra de la Bastille, Paris, by Stara Zagora (Bulgaria) and Usti nad Labem (Czech Republic).
His homeland was it 2005 the same experience twice: the visit of the Danish Royal Family in Gjógv, where he sang in the open air, and on the Listastevna Føroya, the annual art festival in the house of the North, where he, together with the Faroese Symphony Orchestra and his wife Susanne occurred.
After a very successful performances at the Stadttheater Ulm Rúni Brattaberg guest appearances in 2008 in Paris at the Opéra Bastille and 2009/2010 at the Metropolitan Opera NY, at the National Theatre Mannheim, Theater Bonn and at the Opéra de Lausanne. At last sang music stages / he sings, among others following games: Fafner in Das Rheingold, Osmin in The Abduction from the Seraglio, Sarastro in The Magic Flute, King in The Love for Three Oranges and Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier. In 2012 he sang the GURNEMANZ at the Saarbrücken Opera.
Photo Publications
- The Faroe Islands. A unique stage marvelous natural spectacles. Tórshavn in 1994. ( 16 pages, A- 4, 25 color photos, inter alia, of Rúni Brattaberg )
- Stamps FR 268-269 (of Fámjin and vicinity), Postverk Føroya, 1995
Discography
- The Knight and the Dragon ( Label: BIS)
- BROTIÐ Sebelius - Schubert - Mussorgsky - Dahl - Rassmussen ( Label: The Orchard )