Andri Björn Róbertsson

A bass-baritone based in Britain. He sang in the world premiere of George Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence at Covent Garden in 2018 and took the same production to Dutch National Opera, the Hamburg State Opera and the Opéra de Lyon. He has sung with Opera North, at Glyndebourne and with English National Opera, where he was a Harewood Artist, and was a member of the opera studio at Opernhaus Zürich. He studied at Söngskólinn í Reykjavík, the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio in London, and is professor of singing at the universities of Newcastle and Northumbria. He won Ungir einleikarar, the young soloists' competition, in 2011, and first appeared with the Iceland Symphony that year in arias by Handel, Bellini and Mozart under Bernharður Wilkinson.