Adam Frandsen

The Danish tenor Adam Frandsen has this autumn appeared as Jenik in The Bartered Bride at the Göteborg Opera and has the previous season sung the title role of Don Carlos at Folkoperan in Stockholm.

Over the last few years Adam Frandsen has performed as Rodolfo in La bohème at the Taichung National Theater in Taiwan and at Opera Hedeland in Denmark. Adam has sung Augustin Moser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Salzburg Easter Festival and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra (a collaboration between the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra and New Zealand Opera). He has appeared as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera Hedeland, Alfredo in La traviata both at the Danish National Opera and at Kilden Teater Kristiansand, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte in Gothenburg and Spoletta in Tosca in the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra’s staged production. Adam has also sung Ishmael in Moby Dick at the Polish National Opera Teatr Wielki and as Mismodet in the opera Antikrist by Langgaard at the Rued Langgaard Festival.

Engagements in 2015/16 included Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte and Elvino in La sonnambula at the Opera Hedeland. Adam also sang Narraboth in Salome with Stefan Herheim and Boder at the Royal Danish Opera and Il Tinca in Il tabarro at the Danish National Opera. Frandsen also performed the lead role as the Architect Jørn Utzon in Opera Australia’s newly commissioned and highly profiled opera  Sydney Opera House, The Opera (The Eighth Wonder) that celebrates the construction of the House and the famous emblem of the city.

In the 2013/14 season, Frandsen made an important role debut at Semperoper Dresden as Sergei in Shostakovich’s Moscow, Cheryomushki. He sang performances of Cavaradossi in Tosca at Aalborg Opera Festival and Roméo in Roméo et Juliette at the Copenhagen Opera Festival. Frandsen also appeared with the Württembergische Philharmonie, Germany, in a concert of opera highlights.

Other engagements include the Duke in Rigoletto with the Haifa Symphony Orchestra and Rodolfo in La bohème under Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival. Frandsen has sung the title role in the operetta Farinelli by Emil Reesen in the Tivoli Concert Hall with the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra, he has covered Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Seiji Ozawa Opera Project/Saito Kinen Festival and has also sung the roles of Don José in Carmen, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Ruggero/La Rondine, Arcadio in Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas, The Prologue/The Turn of the Screw, and the title roles in Idomeneo and Faust.

As a concert soloist Adam Frandsen has sung Verdi requiem with the Victoria Symphony in Canada, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony under Lorin Maazel, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Ion Marin, with Camerata RCO, as well as in Kioi Hall in Tokyo. He has appeared in New Year’s concerts with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and as the Shephard in Oedipus Rex with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. Adam has sung Handel’s Messiah, Saint-Saëns’s Christmas Oratorio, Dubois’s Seven Last Words of Christ and Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin. In 2011, Mr. Frandsen sang a program of Scandinavian songs by composers Sibelius, Grieg, and Carl Nielsen in the Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen. Frandsen has collaborated with the Copenhagen Philharmonic, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Opera, South Denmark Philharmonic, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, and the Norrköping Symphony.

Adam Frandsen began singing as a young boy in the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir. In 2005, he started his opera studies with guest professor Douglas Yates. Frandsen is a graduate of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, under the direction of Mikael Eliasen, as a student of Marlena Malas.

Frandsen has taken part in the Aspen Music Festival, The International Vocal Arts Institute Israel and Virginia, and the IIVA Puerto Rico. He has worked with and received masterclasses from Neil Shicoff, Francisco Araiza, Joan Dornemann, Sherrill Milnes, Mignon Dunn, Håkan Hagegård, Vinson Cole, Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazel, Pierre Vallet, and Patrick Summers. Frandsen was a regional finalist in the 2008 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and is the recipient of the honorary Aalborg Opera Prize 2015. He was also awarded grants and scholarships from Moores, Curtis, and several American and Danish organizations.

December 2022