Håkan Hagegård Explained

Nils Olov Håkan Hagegård (born 25 November 1945)[1] [2] 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.[3] He later pursued further vocal studies with Tito Gobbi in Rome, Gerald Moore in London, and Erik Werba in Vienna.[3] He also studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.[4]

Career

His début as a singer was in 1965, in an open-air performance of Fredrik August Dahlgren's Värmlänningarna at Ransäter.[1] He made his operatic début in 1968 at the Royal Opera in Stockholm as Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte.[1] The role brought him international acclaim in Ingmar Bergman's 1975 film of the opera.[1] He was attached to the Royal Opera from 1970 to 1978.[2]

He subsequently made his first appearance at the Drottningholm Theatre in 1970, as Pacuvio in Rossini's La Pietra del Paragone, at Glyndebourne in 1973 as the count in Richard Strauss's Capriccio,[1] returning many times to perform works by Strauss and Mozart,[5] and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1978–79 as Malatesta in Donizetti's Don Pasquale.[1] [6] [7] [8] He began his career associated with relatively light roles and expanded his repertore 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.[8] His operatic recordings include Die Zauberflöte, Puccini's La Bohème (as Schaunard), and an operatic recital, and he performed the baritone solos in Robert Shaw's 1980 recording of Orff's Carmina Burana.[9]

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[10] [11] until 2018, when he resigned his academic positions after accusations of sexual harassment, which he denied.[12]

He established the Hagegården Music Centre, a retreat for performing artists, in the 1990s[4] [8] [13] and the Singers Studio, on the model of the New York Actors Studio, in Stockholm in 2010.[14]

Honours

Hagegård's recordings have four times won a .

Hagegård was appointed court vocalist to King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in 1985[2] [10] and elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1989.[2] In 1993 he was awarded the medal Litteris et Artibus.[15] He is also a member of the .[16]

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.[4] In 2000, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Karlstad University.[17]

Personal life

Hagegård was formerly married to the American soprano Barbara Bonney,[18] and has two children.[19], also an opera singer, is his cousin.[11]

Discography

Videography

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20120608132254/http://hd.se/familj/2005/11/25/haakan_hagegaard_fyller_60_aar_den/ "Håkan Hagegård fyller 60 år den 25 november"
  2. https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1993/0419.html "Hagegård, N O Håkan"
  3. Book: 345. The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Hagegård, Håkan. 1996. Harvard University Press. Don Michael Randel. https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&dq=%22Helga+Görlin%22&pg=PA345.
  4. https://hostfest.com/sahf/sahf-inductees/hakan-hagegard/ "SAHF Inductees: Hakan Hagegard"
  5. https://www.glyndebourne.com/persons/hakan-hagegard/ "Hakan Hagegard"
  6. https://www.metopera.org/season/on-demand/opera/?upc=811357012710 "Donizetti, Don Pasquale"
  7. Harold C. Schonberg, "Opera: New ‘Don Pasquale’ at the Met", The New York Times, December 8, 1978.
  8. Cori Ellison, "A Swedish Opera Star Who Is Serious About the Health of Burned-Out Artists", The New York Times, December 14, 1997.
  9. James L. Paulk, "Classic Atlanta Symphony recordings with Robert Shaw showcased on vinyl rerelease", Arts Atlanta, 12 October 2018, retrieved 6 October 2020.
  10. Bo Löfvendahl, "Hagegård blir sångprofessor", Svenska Dagbladet, 25 October 2004, retrieved 6 October 2020 .
  11. https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/4682683 "Hagegårdskusiner med världen som scen"
  12. http://www.musikaliskaakademien.se/nyheter/nyheter/pressmeddelandefranakademiensstyrelse.2443.html "Pressmeddelande från akademiens styrelse"
  13. Claus Nybo, "Hagegården – Our new studio", LifestyleTV, retrieved 6 October 2020.
  14. Marcus Boldemann, "Hagegård skapar centrum för sång", Dagens Nyheter, 26 January 2010, retrieved 6 October 2020 .
  15. https://www.kungahuset.se/monarkinhovstaterna/ordnarochmedaljer/medaljer/medaljer/sokmedalj.4.30963a1811be3fda3ab800012080.html?medaljar=0&medaljtyp=Litteris+et+Artibus&medaljnamn=H%C3%A5kan+Hageg%C3%A5rd Search, ordens- och medaljförläningar
  16. http://varmlandskaakademien.se/ledamoter-2019/ "Ledamöter 2020"
  17. https://web.archive.org/web/20131023060540/http://www.kau.se/om-universitetet/akademiska-hogtider/hedersdoktorer "Hederdoktorer"
  18. Charlotte Higgins, "The rise of little voice", The Guardian, 23 January 2001, retrieved 6 October 2020.
  19. https://www.dn.se/arkiv/familj/varmland-ger-konstnarlig-frihet/ "Värmland ger konstnärlig frihet"

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