INTRODUCTION
Petri Lindroos is an illustrious Finnish bass with impressive power and stamina.
RECENT AND FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS
Most recent and future highlights include:
- Ferrando/Il Trovatore (concert version) and Verdi’s Requiem w. Auckland Philharmonic;
- Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Copenhagen Phil and Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir;
- Marcel/Les Huguenots at the Hungarian National Opera (Budapest);
- Dikoj/Kátia Kabanová, and the bass part in the new Danish opera Manualen at the Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen;
- Sarastro/Die Zauberflöte with Nederlandse Reisopera;
- Colline/La Bohème at the Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera;
- Commendatore/Don Giovanni (chamber version), Daland/Fliegende Holländer and an Opera Galà engagement at Opera Østfold;
- Raimondo/Lucia di Lammermoor at Tivoli Concert Hall;
- Teresias/Oedipus Rex with Malmö Symfoniorkester;
- Don Basilio/Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Savonlinna Opera Festival;
- Rocco/Fidelio at Prague State Opera and at Oulun Teatteri.
BIOGRAPHY
Since his Master’s degree in Music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki 1997 Petri Lindroos has occurred at many opera houses in the major European cities such as Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, Brussels, Luxembourg, Paris, London, Munich, Milan, Rome, etc.
His role repertoire includes such as King Filip/Don Carlos, Fiesco/Simon Boccanegra, Zaccharia/Nabucco, Mefisto/Boito, Mefistophéles/Faust by Gounod and Mefistophéles/La Damnation du Faust by Berloiz, Sarastro/Die Zauberflöte, Figaro/Le Nozze di Figaro, Commendatore and Leporello/Don Giovanni, Gremin/Eugene Onegin, and Pimen/Boris Godunov by Mussorgskij. Petri Lindroos is also an interpreter of the big passions and masses throughout whole Europe.
In recent seasons the artist has performed: Rocco/Fidelio at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Ramfis/Aida at Opera North Leeds, Marcel/Les Huguenots at Hungarian National Opera, Simone/Gianni Schicchi at Norwegian National Opera, Beethoven’s Symphony 9 with Kent Nagano and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Basilio/Barbiere di Siviglia at Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, Sarastro/The Magic Flute at Copenhagen Royal Opera, Zemlinsky’s “Lyrische Sinfonie” Op. 18 at Finlandia Hall in Helsinki with Leif Segerstam, Re/Aida at Teatru Astra in Victoria, Gozo, Malta and Osmin/Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail at Savonlinna Opera Festival.
To his successes may be mentioned his interpreted Pimen in Boris Godunov at the Finnish National Opera stage and his appearing as Leporello with the La Monnaie-tour in Tokyo and a series of Verdi’s Requiem (Westminster Cathedral, Verdi Festival in Parma) and a tour with the Bavarian Radio-orchestra doing Messe Solennelle by Berlioz also under the baton of Maestro Riccardo Muti.
Furthermore, he had his debut as the Commendatore in the Don Giovanni production at the Festival de Radio France in Montpellier and Sarastro at the Opera Berlioz also in Montpellier and Le Chatelet in Paris. He has sung at La Scala opera in Milan as King Philip in Don Carlos conducted by maestro Daniele Gatti and as Sarastro at the Chatelet Opera (Paris).
In previous seasons Lindroos has appeared in roles as Sarastro/The Magic Flute, Basilio/Il barbiere di Siviglia, Colline/La bohème), Ramfis/Aida, Daland/Der fliegende Holländer, Hunding/Die Valkyrie and Commendatore/Don Giovanni among others.
He also appeared as bass soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with Orchestra and Coro di Teatro san Carlo, Napoli and in Missa Solemnis (Beethoven) in Gothenburg with maestro Nagano among others.
In addition, he still coaches and teaches students and professionals from the whole of Scandinavia and is proud to be able to give forth the formidable singing technique he was taught by his father, the famous tenor, Peter Lindroos.
OPERA |
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Beethoven, L.v. | Fidelio | Rocco |
Berg, A. | Gurrelieder | Bauer |
Berlioz, H. | La damnation de Faust | Mephistopheles |
Les Troyens | Narbal | |
Bizet, G. | Carmen | Zuniga |
Britten, B. | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Snug |
Bottom | ||
Crusell, B. | The Little Slave Girl | Hassan |
Donizetti, G. | Anna Bolena | Lord Rochefort |
Lucia di Lammermoor | Raimondo | |
Gothonim, R. | Hund | Leonid |
Gounod, C. | Faust | Mephisto |
Romeo et Juliette | Frere Laurent | |
Haydn, J. | Il mondo della luna | Buonafede |
Orlando paladino | Rodomonte | |
Janáček, L. | Kátia Kabanová | Dikoj |
Kokkonen, J. | The Last Temptations | The third man |
Liebermann, R. | Medea | Jason |
Massenet, J. | Herodiade | Phanuel |
Meyerbeer, G. | Les Huguenots | Marcel |
Mozart, W.A. | Die Zauberflöte | Sprecher |
Sarastro | ||
Don Giovanni | Leporello | |
Il Commendatore (Don Pedro) | ||
Masetto | ||
La clemenza di Tito | Publio | |
Le nozze di Figaro | Figaro | |
Mussorgsky, M. | Boris Godunov | Pimen |
Nielsen, C. | Maskerade | Jeronimus |
Puccini, G. | Gianni Schicchi | Simone |
La boheme | Colline | |
Tosca | Cesare Angelotti | |
Turandot | The Emperor Altoum | |
Rautawaara, E. | Aleksis Kivi | Olvi |
Rossini, G. | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Fiorello |
Don Basilio | ||
Il viaggio a Reims | Lord Sidney | |
Sallinen, A. | King Lear | Count Albany |
Shostakovich, D. | Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk | Priest |
Strauss, R. | Capriccio | Haushofmeister |
Tchaikovsky, P.I. | Eugene Onegin | Prince Gremin |
Verdi, G. | Aida | Ramfis |
The King of Egypt | ||
Don Carlos | Philip II (Philippe/Filippo) | |
Il trovatore | Ferrando | |
La forza del destino | Padre Guardiano | |
La traviata | Marchese d’Obigny | |
Rigoletto | Sparafucile | |
Stiffelio | Jorg | |
Un ballo in maschera | Samuel | |
Wagner, R. | Das Rheingold | Fafner |
Die Meistersinger | Fritz Kothner | |
Nachtwächter | ||
Fliegende Holländer | Daland | |
Tannhäuser | Biterolf | |
Tristan und Isolde | König Marke | |
Weil, K. | Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny | Alaska Wolf Joe |
CONCERT
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Bach, J.S. | B minor Mass | |
Johannes-Passion | ||
Matthäus-Passion | ||
Weihnachtsoratorium | ||
Beethoven, L.v. | Missa Solemnis | |
Symphony no. 9 | ||
Berlioz, H. | L’enfance du Christ | |
Messe solennelle | ||
Dvorak, A. | Requiem | |
Stabat Mater | ||
Faure, G. | Requiem | |
Händel, G.F. | Messiah | |
Haydn, J. | Die Schöpfung | |
Stabat Mater | ||
Mahler, G. | Symphony No. 8 | |
Mozart, W.A. | C minor Mass | |
Coronation Mass | ||
Requiem | ||
Rossini, G. | Stabat Mater | |
Tippett, M. | A Child of Our Time | |
Verdi, G. | Messa da Requiem | |
Zemlinsky A.v. | Lyrische Sinfonie Op. 18 |