Håkan Hagegård

Nils Olov Håkan Hagegård (born 25 November 1945) is a Swedish operatic baritone. He also performs lieder and has held academic positions in the United States, Norway, and Sweden.

Early life and education Born in Karlstad, Hagegård studied at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm where he was a voice student of famous Swedish soprano Helga Görlin. He later pursued further vocal studies with Tito Gobbi in Rome, Gerald Moore in London, and Erik Werba in Vienna.

Career His début as a singer was in 1965, in an open-air performance of Fredrik August Dahlgren's Värmlänningarna at Ransäter. and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1978–79 as Malatesta in Donizetti's Don Pasquale. He began his career associated with relatively light roles and expanded his repertoire to include Guglielmo in Mozart's Così fan tutte, Count Almaviva in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Figaro in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Rodrigo in Verdi's Don Carlos, and Wolfram in Wagner's Tannhäuser.

He made his début as a lieder singer in Stockholm in 1970, singing Schubert's Die Winterreise and has since given lieder recitals all over Europe. He has premiered song cycles by composers including Dominick Argento and Stephen Paulus.

He has been Senior Lecturer in Music at the Indiana University Bloomington School of Music and was a professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and the first occupant of the Birgit Nilsson chair in singing at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm until 2018.

He established the Hagegården Music Centre, a retreat for performing artists, in the 1990s and the Singers Studio, on the model of the New York Actors Studio, in Stockholm in 2010.

Honours Hagegård's recordings have four times won a .

Hagegård was appointed court vocalist to King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in 1985 He is also a member of the .

Awards he has received include the Swedish in 1976; the medal of the in 1986; the in 1992; and the International Scandinavian Cultural Award of the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame at Norsk Høstfest 1996.

Personal life Hagegård was formerly married to the American soprano Barbara Bonney, and has two children. , also an opera singer, is his cousin.

Discography Zueignung – Dedication, BIS, 1976 Puccini: La Bohème, Philips, 1979 Håkan Hagegård sjunger Olle Adolphson, 1981 Schubert: Winterreise, RCA, 1983 Schumann: Liederkreis; Eight songs, RCA, 1986 Håkan Hagegård Sings Operatic Arias and Swedish Ballads, Caprice Records, 1988 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1988 Rodgers: The Sound of Music, conducted by Erich Kunzel, Telarc, 1988 Psalms by Grieg and Mendelssohn, Nimbus, 1989 Paulus: Songs, Albany Music Distribution, 1990 Mozart: Don Giovanni, L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1990 Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, RCA, 1990 Haydn: The Seasons, Koch International Classics, 1991 Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen, Teldec, 1992 Ture Rangström: Sånger, Music Svecias, 1993 Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, 1993 Songs, Volume 1 & 2, BMG, 1993 Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch, Teldec 1994 Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin, RCA Victor Red Seal, 1994 Orff: Carmina Burana, RCA, 1995 Zemlinsky: Lyrische Symphonie, 1995 Strauss: Capriccio, Decca, 1995 Songs of Brahms, Sibelius and Stenhammar, RCA, 1997 Faure Requiem, RCA, 1997 Lucia - En klassisk högtid Klassisk Jul, Gazell Productions, 2002 Edward Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar, BIS, 2004 Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; Des Knaben Wunderhord; Kindertotenlieder, 2008 Jul Med Adolf Fredrik, AIS Schubert: Schwanengesang, RCA Contrasts: Lieder & Folksongs, Proprius-Audiosource

Videography Carmen, Role: Zuniga (1973) The Magic Flute (1975), Ingmar Bergman, Role: Papageno L'Incoronazione di Poppea (1978), Role: Otho Cosi fan Tutte (1978), Role: Guglielmo Don Pasquale (1979), Role: Dr. Malatesta, Metropolitan Opera, Great Performances at the Met Die Fledermaus (1986), Role: Eisenstein, Metropolitan Opera, Great Performances at the Met Don Giovanni (1987), Role: Don Giovanni Meeting Venus (1991) Role: Wolfram von Eschenbach (highlights) The Ghosts of Versailles (1992), Role: Beaumarchais Capriccio (1993), Role: The Count The Rake's Progress (1995), Role: Nick Shadow James Levine's 25th Anniversary Metropolitan Opera Gala (1996), Deutsche Grammophon DVD, B0004602-09 Die Fledermaus (2003), Role: Falke