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Guido Paevatalu  

baritone

Guido Paevatalu made his debut in 1982 at the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen. Since then he has sung Mozart roles such as the Count in The Marriage of Figaro, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, the title role in Don Giovanni and Papageno in The Magic Flute; Italian roles such as Posa in Verdi’s Don Carlos, Germont in Verdi’s La Traviata, Silvio in Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci, Sharpless in Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, Figaro in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff; Wagner roles like Wolfram in Tannhäuser and Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger, as well as roles in operas by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Richard Strauss and Britten. Guido Paevatalu has appeared in several productions for DR-TV, including Carl Nielsen’s Masquerade, Heise’s King and Marshal and Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus. At the Danish National Opera in Aarhus he has sung Dandini in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, and he has given concerts with a wide range of orchestras in Denmark as well as in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Russia, Austria, Holland, France, Hungary and Germany. He has sung at the Mozart Festival in Vienna, at Savonlinna in Finland, at the Bergen Festival, in Leipzig and Munich and at Opera Ireland. He has recorded several CDs including Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov with Dmitry Kitaenko, Kunzen’s Holger Danske with Thomas Dausgaard, Gade’s The Elf-Shot and Dupuy’s Youth and Folly with Michael Schønwandt, as well as a solo CD of Danish romances.

Live Dates

03/01/2012   Opera

Poul Ruders: Selma Jekozà
"...an outstanding record of a quite extraordinary work. I can't recommend it too highly"
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01/10/2011   Klassisk

Poul Ruders: Selma Jezková
4/5 Stars

"Det cirkulære handlingsforløb og den enkle scenografi virker stærkt og klart på skærmen"
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30/06/2011   International Record Review

Poul Ruders: Selma Jezková
"The whole production is a triumph of dramatic focus and concentration ... If a UK staging of Selma Jezková is not already scheduled, it certainly ought to be."
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01/06/2011   David's Review Corner

Poul Ruders: Selma Jezková
"One act operas have been singularly unsuccessful in the history of opera, but this compelling story may prove the exception".
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15/03/1996  

F.L.Ae. Kunzen: Holger Danske
DANISH GRAMMY AWARD
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15/03/1996  

F.L.Ae. Kunzen Holger Danske
AMERICAN GRAMMY AWARD NOMINEE
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Photo: Rigmor Mydskov www.mydtskov.dk

Discography

Selma Jezková (Dancer in the Dark)
Selma Jezková (Dancer in the Dark)
Poul Ruders

DVD 2.110410 (2011)

Poul Ruders' heart-rending opera from 2010 based on Lars von Trier's film "Dancer in the Dark"

The Royal Guest
The Royal Guest
Hakon Børresen

CD 8.226020 (2005)

A wonderful fable of love – and one of the most successful Danish operas ever

The Sleeping Draught
The Sleeping Draught
C.E.F. Weyse

CD 8.224149-50 (2001)

Complete recording of the charming and lively Singspiel that became one of the hits of the 1800s in Danish music

Renaissance
Renaissance
P.E. Lange-Müller

CD 8.224109 (2000)

Fuldmoden dansk nationalromantik af en elsket mester

Der var engang (Once upon a time)
Der var engang (Once upon a time)
P.E. Lange-Müller

CD 8.224084 (1997)

Songs and music from the Romantic fairytale comedy. A bestseller 100 years ago and today!

Ungdom og Galskab (Youth and Folly)
Ungdom og Galskab (Youth and Folly)
Edouard Dupuy

CD 8.224066-67 (1997)

A witty, melodious Singspiel, performed hundreds of times since the premiere in 1806!

Elverskud (The Elf King's Daughter)
Elverskud (The Elf King's Daughter)
Niels W. Gade

CD 8.224051 (1996)

Holger Danske
Holger Danske
F.L.Ae. Kunzen

CD 8.224036-37 (1995)


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