Kolbjørn Høiseth

29 December 1932 Skaun – April 1999 Stockholm

Picture of Kolbjørn Høiseth
Born in Norway, he studied with Heddy Gathe in Trondheim, Set Svanholm and Ragnar Hyltén Cavallius in Stockholm.

He made his debut in Stockholm in 1958 as the Young Seaman in Tristan and Isolde, and Hylas in Les Troyens.

He sang at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Covent Garden, in Lyon, Bordeaux, Moscow, Kassel, Hannover, Duisburg and Kiel, and above all, again and again in Stockholm.

At the Metropolitan, he sang: Das Rheingold on 10, 15 and 22 February 1975 as Froh (Thomas Stewart, Mignon Dunn, Marius Rintzler, Glade Peterson, Maureen Forrester, Bengt Rundgren, John Macurdy, Christine Weidinger, William Dooley, Ragnar Ulfung, Loretta Di Franco, Batyah Godfrey Ben-David, Sixten Ehrling); and Die Walküre on March 8, 1975 as Siegmund (Rita Hunter, Birgit Nilsson, Donald McIntyre, Mignon Dunn, John Macurdy, Mary Ellen Pracht, Joann Grillo, Gloria Hodes, Carlotta Ordassy, Jean Kraft, Batyah Godfrey Ben-David, Marcia Baldwin, Cynthia Munzer, Sixten Ehrling).

His repertory included: Carmen, Alceste, Don Carlo, Otello, Aida, Pagliacci, Boris Godunov, Její pastorkyňa (Jenůfa), Fidelio, Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Elektra, Wozzeck, Lady Macbeth Mtsenskogo uezda (Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk), Das Rheingold, Lohengrin, Die Walküre, Guillaume Tell (as Rodolphe), ...
Reference

Kolbjørn Høiseth sings Aida: Tu! Amonasro!, with Birgit Nilsson, Barbro Ericson and Rolf Jupither in Swedish & Italian
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Kolbjørn Høiseth singsDie Walküre: Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond
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I wish to thank Daniele Godor for the picture.

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