Elmar Gilbertsson

Elmar Gilbertsson graduated from Söngskóli Sigurðar Demetz in the spring of 2007 and took a master's degree in opera at the conservatories of Amsterdam and The Hague, studying with Jón Þorsteinsson and Peter Nilson. He spent two years in the Dutch National Opera's studio and then held a permanent post at the opera in Maastricht. He has sung Tamino in The Magic Flute, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Ferrando in Così fan tutte and the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, and has appeared at the opera houses of Nantes, Toulon, Aix-en-Provence, Bochum, Brno and Amsterdam, and at the Barbican in London. For Daði Halldórsson in Gunnar Þórðarson's Ragnheiður he was named singer of the year at the Gríma awards in 2014. The same year he took the Icelandic Music Award as singer of the year in classical and contemporary music, and he took it again for Lensky in the Icelandic Opera's Eugene Onegin in the autumn of 2016. Since 2018 he has sung with the opera in Stuttgart, where his roles have included Mime in Das Rheingold, Narraboth in Salome and Grigory in Boris Godunov.