John Lundgren

John Otto Lundgren (born on October 12th, 1968) is a Swedish dramatic baritone opera singer.
Educated at Vadstena Academy and in The Opera Academy in Copenhagen. During his studies he joined the ensemble of The Royal Danish Theatre and debuted as Schaunard in La Bohème. Since then he has frequently been singing in stagings in The Royal Danish Theatre, e.g. Enrico Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor, Posa in Don Carlos, Amonasro in Aida, Scarpia in Tosca, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, and the title role of Der Fliegende Holländer. He has continued to sing many of these roles internationally and also adding to them by singing Carlo Gérard in Andrea Chenier in Bregenzer Festspiele and Jack Rance in the Stockholm staging of La Fanciulla del West in 2012.
Lundgren has also sung contemporary opera. In 2005 he sang the part of Prospero in The Tempest by Thomas Adès and four roles in one and the same opera - Cecilia and the Monkey King by Reine Jönsson in Drottningholm (Sweden). In 2016 he sang Devlin in the premiere of Notorius (opera based on the Hitchcock movie with the same name) together with Nina Stemme. In 2016 he also expanded his classical dramatic baritone repertoire by singing Wotan in Bayreuth, repeating that part in Stockholm in a one occasion revival of the 2006 staging of Der Ring des Nibelungen directed by Staffan Valdemar Holm. He will continue sing Wotan again in 2017 in Bayreuth and in 2018 in London.
In 2006 John received the Birgit Nilsson Prize for being one of the few Scandinavian-born dramatic baritones of his generation. In 2010, John was honoured Knight of Dannebrog by HM The Queen of Denmark.