Stig Andersen aka Stig Fogh Andersen
The Danish tenor Stig Andersen ( the Siegmund and Siegfried on the recently released Copenhagen Ring on DVD), is one of those singers who could have sung at Bayreuth, but never got the chance.
The funny thing is that Stig
Andersen (aka Stig Fogh Andersen) got his Bayreuth debut already in 1977.
Between 1977 and 1979 he sang in the Festspielchor (in Chéreau’s
Götterdämmerung and Götz Friedrich’s
Tannhäuser and Lohengrin).
(See other singers
who started in the Bayreuther Festspielchor here)
Stig Andersen made his debut in a major Wagner
role in 1993, in the Århus Ring. In 1996 he sang both Siegfrieds
in Århus. He has played the major Wagner roles in Copenhagen, Zurich,
Berlin, Tokyo, Munich, Houston, Århus, Chicago, Torino, Dresden, Santiago
de Chile, Buenos Aires, Helsinki, Amsterdam, London, New York, Geneva, Madrid,
Dortmund etc.
Stig Andersen's Wagner roles
Tristan (Tristan und Isolde)
Siegmund (Die Walküre)
Siegfried (Siegfried and Götterdämmerung)
Tannhäuser (Tannhäuser)
Froh (Das Rheingold)
Parsifal (Parsifal)
Erik (Der fliegende Holländer)
Lohengrin (Lohengrin)
Walther von Stolzing (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)
Other Wagner tenors:
Wolfgang Windgassen,
René Kollo, Lauritz
Melchior, Jon Vickers, Christopher Ventris
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