Norwegian baritone Yngve Søberg begins this season as Scarpia in Tosca in Oslo, where he later sings Orest in Elektra and makes his role debut as Rodrigo in Verdi’s Don Carlo. The season include several concert productions among them the gala concert Viva Verdi, Viva Wagner with the Irish National Opera Orchestra/Keri-Lynn Wilson and Britten’s War Requiem with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker/Asher Fish.
Yngve Søberg made his role debut as Rigoletto at the Opera di Firenze under the baton of Fabio Luisi and continued to sing the iconic role at the Norwegian National Opera, Oper Frankfurt, Staatsoper Hamburg and at the Bregenzer Festspiele. In Bregenz, Yngve took over the role on very short notice to great critical acclaim. Yngve Søberg has in recent seasons taken on some of the most demanding roles of the repertoire with Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca and last season Iago in Verdi’s Otello, both performed at the Norwegian National Opera.
Previous engagements have included Sharpless in Madama Butterfly and Heerrufer in Lohengrin at the Opernhaus Zürich, and Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana and Tonio in Pagliacci at the Oper Graz. Yngve also sang Angelotti in Tosca at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Amonasro in Aida, Silvio in I Pagliacci, Marcello in La Bohème all with the Oscarsborg Opera and Germont in La Traviata with Nordnorsk Opera. He recently performed, once again, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, at the Bregenzer Festspiele.
Yngve’s roles as a beloved principal artist of the Norwegian National Opera represent a wide cross section of baritone repertoire, including: Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Marcello in La Bohème, Germont in La Traviata, Escamillo in Carmen, Lorenzo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana and Tonio in I Pagliacci, as well as the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro. Last season he added to this repertoire by performing Orest in Elektra and Amfortas in a concert version of Parsifal, as well as Scarpia in Tosca.This season he will sing Don Carlo in concert version of La forza del Destino alongside Lise Davidsen.
Much in demand also on the concert stage, Yngve has performed Amfortas in Parsifal (Petrenko) in concert, Fauré’s Requiem and Mozart’s Requiem with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Carmina Burana with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra. He has also recently performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 3, with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Edward Gardner, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, in Trondheim, with an international star cast, as well as Arnold Schönberg’s Gurre-Lieder in Prague.
Yngve has performed with many of the leading orchestras in the Scandinavian area. He has collaborated with some of today’s finest conductors including Vasily Petrenky, Alexander Soddy, Antonino Fogliani, Paolo Arrivabeni, Ingar Bergby, Oleg Caetani, Jonathan Darlington, John Helmer Fiore, Patrick Fournillier, Roy Goodman, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Pietari Inkinen, Kirill Karabits, Stefan Klingele, Pier Gerhard Markson, Giorgio Morandi, Jun Märkl, Rudolph Piehlmayer, Patrik Ringborg, Marc Soustrot, Ward Stare, Peter Szilvay, Muhai Tang and Keri-Lynn Wilson.
Yngve has been decorated with both the Ruud Wallenberg Award and the Tom Wilhelmsen Award.
September 2025
