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| Tomas Tomasson began his professional career whilst still studying at the Reykjavík College of Music, performing the roles of Sparafucile, Sarastro and Lodovico with the Icelandic Opera and performing concerts and recitals throughout his home country (including Bach's St. John Passion, Haydn's Nelson Mass, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Missa Brevis in G and Requiem). In 1994 he took on the role of Marchese Di Calatrava in Verdi's La forza del destino at the Icelandic National Theatre and performed in Tippett's A Child of our Time with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. In 1995 he graduated from the Royal College of Music's Opera School in London, where he performed the roles of Arasse (Händel's Siroe, re di Persia), Le Bailli (Massenet's Werther) and won the Clytie Mundy Song Recital Price, the Ricordi Price for singing and the Cuthbert Smith and Agnes Nicholls Harty Trophy. During his RCM years he performed in various concerts in the UK, singing, among others, Bach's St. Matthew Passion for the Händel Festival, in a Opera Gala Concerts at the Queen Elisabeth Hall and at the Barbican, Mozart?s Requiem at the Barbican, Verdi's Requiem at the Mayfield Festival and Elgar's The Apostles with the Guildford Philharmonia. |
| Events in 1995 confirmed that a new talent was emerging on to the international operatic scene. He experienced great success performing as Tcherevik in Mussorgsky?s Sorochinsky Fair at the RCM, followed by engagements as Commendatore in Don Giovanni in Valencia, Foltz in Die Meistersinger in Turin and a summer season with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He won the prestigious Lasmo Staffa Music Award and the Joanina Music Award and was engaged by the majority of theatres for which he auditioned, so that his engagements since then have made impressive reading: Marchese Di Calatrava at the Orange Festival, Masetto in Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and at the Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen, Colline in La Bohème in the new centenary production at the Royal Albert Hall and at the Teatro Regio di Torino and at Covent Garden, Cadmus/Somnus in Semele at the Staatsoper Berlin and at the Innsbruck Festival, Mago Christiano in Pier-Luigi Pizzi's production of Rinaldo at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Pimen in Boris Godunov and Gremin in Evgenij Onegin at the Teatro Regio di Torino. In recent seasons, Tomas Tomasson was heard in such operas as Ariadne auf Naxos (Truffaldino) and Carmen at La Monnaie in Brussels, Peter Grimes (Masetto and Hobson), Philip Glass's Orphée (Judge), L'elisir d'amore (Dulcamara), The love for three Oranges and Don Carlos (Frate) at the Royal Danish Opera, a new production of Orfeo at La Monnaie and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Il trovatore (Ferrando) at De Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp and Gent, Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro) at the Staatsoper Berlin and Oper Köln, La sonnambula (Rodolfo) at the Lausanne Opera and Teatro Real in Madrid, Gremin at the Baltimore Opera Company, Zemlinsky's König Kandaules (Cook/Philebos), The love for three Oranges (King Of Clubs), Carmen (Escamillo) and Das Rheingold (Fasolt) at Oper Köln, Norma (Oroveso) at the Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, and Il ritorno d?Ulisse in patria (Antinoo) at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. |
| On the concert side, he sang Verdi's Requiem with the Royal Northern Philharmonia and the Kölner Philharmoniker, Beethoven's 9th Symphony for the Opéra National de Paris and with Mo Lorin Maazel in Naples, Cagliari and Madrid. |
| Future plans include Don Carlo (Inquisitore) for Oper Köln, Il Trovatore (Ferrando) at the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden and Lucia di Lammermoor (Raimondo) for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. |
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