Elmar Gilbertsson

“Elmar Gilbertsson’s Mime was excellent”

Elmar Gilbertsson has been a member of the Stuttgart State Opera ensemble since the 2018-19 season, with performances including as Prince in a new production of Die Liebe zu den 3 Orangen (Achim Ranisch/Alejo Perez), Pylade in Krzysztof Warlikowski’s production of Iphigénie en Tauride, as Narraboth in Salome, Grigory/Jewish Partisan in a new production of Boris Godunov with Titus Engel, Mime in a new production of Das Rheingold (Stephan Kimmich/Cornelis Meister), amongst others. Prior to Stuttgart Elmar Gilbertsson performed Mime conducted by Teodor Currentzis in a new production of Das Rheingold at the RuhrTriennale, and with the NDR Elbphilharmonie under Marek Janowski in Hamburg, Dortmund and at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. At Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels he appeared as Monostatos in Romeo Castellucci’s new production of Die Zauberflöte.

His repertoire also includes roles such as Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, both Tamino and Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte, Beppo in Pagliacci, Mime in Das Rheingold, Lensky in Eugen Onegin, Kudrjáš in Janáček’s Katja Kabanowa, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Chevalier de la Force in Poulencs Dialogues des Carmélites. His vocal symphonic repertoire stretches from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Handel’s Messiah via Beethoven’s 9^th to Elgar’s Dream of Girontius, Finzi’s Dies Natalis to Britten’s Serenade.

Next to Staatsoper Stuttgart Elmar Gilbetsson appears at the Ruhrtriennale, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the International Janáček Festival in Brno, the National Opera Amsterdam, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, La Monnaie Brussels, Opera Vlaanderen Antwerp-Gent, Opera Zuid Maastricht, Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège, Angers-Nantes Opéra, Opéra de Toulon, Harpa Reykjavik, Icelandic Opera Reykjavík and the Barbican Center London.

Elmar Gilbertsson graduated at the Reykjavík Music School and holds a Master degree from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague/Amsterdam as a member of the Dutch National Opera Academy.

Plans include his role debut of Boris in Katja Kabanova, Mime in Das Rheingold, Frère Massée in a new production of Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise, all at Staatsoper Stuttgart; as well as his company debut at Icelandic National Theatre in the lead role of Daniel Daréus in As It Is In Heaven in September 2022.

March 2022