Sveinn Dúa Hjörleifsson

A tenor who studied at Söngskóli Sigurðar Demetz in Reykjavík and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He held ensemble posts at the Landestheater Linz and then at the Leipzig Opera, where his roles have included Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Narraboth in Salome and Cassio in Otello. He has sung at the Konzerthaus and the Musikverein in Vienna, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Oper Frankfurt, the Wiener Festwochen and the Berliner Festtage, and took part in the first performances of Moritz Eggert's Terra Nova and of David Lang's reworking of Wagner's Parsifal. His drag production of Die schöne Müllerin was nominated for production of the year at the Icelandic Music Awards, and he for singer of the year. He sang the tenor solo in Beethoven's ninth symphony with the Iceland Symphony at the opening of Harpa in 2011.