Oddur Arnþór Jónsson

A baritone who studied with Ólöf Kolbrún Harðardóttir and Alexander Ashworth at Söngskólinn í Reykjavík, the city's singing school, and took his postgraduate training in opera and song at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he was given the Lilli Lehmann medal. He was named brightest hope at the Icelandic Music Awards in 2014 for Rodrigo in Don Carlo, his first role at the Icelandic Opera, and took the award for singer of the year in 2018 for Michael in Daníel Bjarnason's Brothers. At the Icelandic Opera he has also sung the title roles in Don Giovanni and Il barbiere di Siviglia, the Count in Le nozze di Figaro and Ned Keene in Peter Grimes, and elsewhere Wolfram in Tannhäuser, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde and Schaunard in La bohème. In the past year he has sung Carmina Burana with the Iceland Symphony, Mozart's Requiem with Mótettukórinn, Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen at the Berlin Philharmonie and Silvio in I Pagliacci at the opera in Ulm.