Jóhann Friðgeir Valdimarsson

A tenor, born in Reykjavík on 12 December 1967. He learned the piano and the trumpet as a boy at Tónmenntaskólinn and at the Reykjavík College of Music. He began to study singing in 1995 at Söngskólinn í Reykjavík with Garðar Cortes, and afterwards with Magnús Jónsson, Bergþór Pálsson and Þuríður Pálsdóttir, taking the eighth-grade examination in the spring of 1998. That same year he went to Milan to work with Giovanna Canetti at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi, with private lessons from Angelo Bertacchi in Modena and Franco Ghitti in Brescia. His roles include Alfredo in La traviata, the Duke in Rigoletto, Manrico in Il trovatore, Radames in Aida, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana and Canio in Pagliacci. He has made four records, the last of them Sacred Arias in November 2010, he sings with Frostrósir, and he is one of the founders of the Icelandic Three Tenors.