Peter Lindroos
Peter Lindroos | |
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Skåne, Sweden | |
| Known for | Opera singer (tenor) |
Paul Peter Christer Lindroos (26 February 1944 – 17 November 2003) was a Finnish opera singer who appeared in leading
Royal Danish Opera. Although he specialised in the 19th-century Italian spinto repertoire, he also sang in many 20th-century works and created the role of The King in Erik Bergman's Det sjungande trädet in 1995. In his later years he was a professor of voice at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and the Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden. He died along with his young son in a car accident near Malmö at the age of 59. He is buried in Pohja
, Finland, the town of his birth.
Life and career
Lindroos was born to a musical family in
church cantor and organist at the Sibelius Academy and in his early years worked as a cantor. After completing his studies at the Sibelius Academy in 1964 he studied privately in Helsinki with the soprano Jolanda di Maria Petris who retrained his voice from bass-baritone to tenor. His tenor voice retained its baritonal timbre, and he would later specialise in the spinto repertoire. Radames in Aida, Manrico in Il trovatore, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Don José, in Carmen, Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos and the title role in Parsifal were amongst his best known roles.[1][2]
Lindroos made his stage debut with the
In his later years, he taught singing at the Sibelius Academy and then at the
Skåne in Sweden where was planning to spend his retirement years as a cantor at the churches of Hästveda and Farstorp. On 17 November 2003, Lindroos was killed in a car accident near Malmö at the age of 59. His 18-month-old son Andreas was also killed in the accident, and his wife and four-year-old daughter were badly injured. Lindroos and his young son are buried in Pohja. His son from a previous marriage, Petri Lindroos (born 1966), is also an opera singer.[1][3][4]
Lindroos was awarded Denmark's Order of the Dannebrog in 1979 and Finland's Order of the White Rose in 1983.[4] He was also in 1994 awarded with Beniamino Gigli Prize.
Roles created
- Johann in Einojuhani Rautavaara's Thomas, Carelia-Halle, Joensuu, 21 June 1985[5]
- Rattenfänger in Opernhaus Graz, 26 September 1987[5]
- The King in Erik Bergman's Helsinki Opera House, 3 September 1995[5]
References
- ^ a b c Lampila, Hannu-Ilari (November 2003). "Peter Lindroos" (obituary). Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved 18 February 2015 (in Finnish).
- ^ a b Hillila, Ruth-Esther; Hong, Barbara Blanchard (1997). "Lindroos, Peter." Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland, p. 225. Greenwood Publishing Group
- ^ Itävuori, Marita (11 November 2005). "Petri Lindroosin mieliroolit ovat mefistot, Työpaikkana maailman oopperalavat." Loviisan Sanomat. Retrieved 18 February 2015 (in Finnish).
- ^ a b Brander, Torsten. Peter Lindroos Biography. peterlindroos.eu. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ a b c Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Performance by Peter Lindroos". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
Further reading
- Brander, Torsten (2011). Suomen suurin tenori Peter Lindroos [Finland's Greatest Tenor Peter Lindroos]. Suomen Beniamino Gigli-seura [Beniamino Gigli Society of Finland], Riihimäki. ISBN 978-952-92-9061-1
External links
- Official website (in memoriam)
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