Magnus Staveland The young Norwegian tenor Magnus Staveland was born in Stavanger. He studied at the State Academy of Music in Oslo, and at the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen with Susanna Eken. He graduated in the summer of 2008. Magnus Staveland has quickly gained reputation as one of Scandinavia’s most exciting up-and-coming singers. Opera engagements have included Gluck’s one act operas Aristeo and Bauci e Filemone at Opéra Garnier Paris, Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg, Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Opéra Garnier Monaco and Le Corum Montpellier, Enea in Cavalli's La Didone at Teatro La Fenice di Venezia and at Teatro Regio di Torino, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at the Norwegian National Opera, Lucano, Soldati 1 and Famigliari 2 in L'Incoronazione di Poppea at the Royal Danish Opera, Pierrot Lunaire in Stavanger, and Arne Nordheim’s Aurora in Oslo. He regularly works with conductors such as René Jacobs, Fabio Biondi, Christophe Rousset, Alessandro De Marchi, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Andrew Parrot, Marc Soustrot, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Simon Carrington, Gary Cooper, Eric Ericsson and Cristoph Kühlwein. His large concert repertoire include Bach’s St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, Mass in B minor, Christmas Oratorio and a number of Cantatas, Handel’s Messiah, Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno and La Resurrezione, Mozart’s Requiem, Mass in C minor and Coronation Mass, Caldara’s Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo, Telemann’s Brockes Passion, Haydn’s Paukenmesse, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Monteverdi’s Marienvespers In the autumn of 2008 Magnus Staveland made his debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milan as Enea in Cavalli's La Didone. He also sang Tempo in Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno as well as a gala concert with arias by Mozart with the Norwegian National Opera, Cristo in Caldara’s Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo the Innsbrucker Festwochen der alten Musik, and Bach’s Mass in B minor (in a cast including Barbara Bonney and Monica Groop). 2009 has started with Natura and Pane in Cavalli’s La Calisto at Théâtre de La Monnaie Brussels, Medoro in Haydn’s Orlando Paladino at the Staatsoper Berlin, Aret in Haydn’s Philemon und Baucis in Siena and Potsdam, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Medoro in Haydn’s Orlando Paladino at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der alten Musik with the conductor René Jacobs and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. Forthcoming engagements include Ferrando in Così fan tutte in Paris and Lisbon with the conductor René Jacobs, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the Drottningholm Festival with the conductor Mark Tatlow, Flavio in Norma in Granada with the conductor Fabio Biondi, Aret in Haydn’s Philemon und Baucis in Madrid with the conductor Fabio Biondi, Piso in Keiser’s Octavia at Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and at Schwetzinger Festspiele with the conductor Attilio Cremonesi, Purcell’s King Arthur in Paris and Toulouse with the conductor Christophe Rousset, Lucano, Soldato 1 and Famigliari 2 in L'Incoronazione di Poppea at the Norwegian National Opera with the conductor Alessandro De Marchi, Fabio in Handel’s Berenice on tour with the conductor Alan Curtis, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in Oslo with the conductor Andrew Manze. He will also sing concerts in Barcelona as well as record Martín y Soler’s Il Sogno and La Dora Festeggiante with the conductor Juan Bautista Otero. December 2009