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Charlotte Bateman

Charlotte Bateman

Assistant Artist Manager

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

About Audun

Norwegian baritone Audun Iversen graduated from the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo in 2005, furthering his studies at Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig and at the Opera Academy Copenhagen, where, during the 2007-08 season, he performed Schaunard (La bohème) and Vicomte Cascada (The Merry Widow) with the Royal Danish Opera. In 2007, Audun received First Prize in the Queen Sonja Competition in Oslo.

The 2024-25 season sees Audun perform roles including Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde) at Grand Théâtre de Genève, Frank/Fritz (Die Tote Stadt) at Bergen National Opera, Gabriel von Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus) for Dutch National Opera and Belcore (L’elisir d’amore) for Opera Østfold.

In 2023-24, he sang the title role in Eugene Onegin at Opera Liceu in Barcelona, Albert (Werther) for Opernhaus Zürich, The CEO (The Shell Trial) at the Dutch National Opera, and Germont (La Traviata) with the Prague National Theatre. Prior to that, in the 22-23 season he performed Edwin (Die Csardasfürstin) and Don Alfonso  (Cosi fan tutte) in Oslo as well as Frank/Fritz (Die tote Stadt) at ENO and Carmina Burana, at Litomysl Festival.

Operatic highlights of recent seasons include Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) for San Francisco Opera; il Conte (Le nozze di Figaro) for Glyndebourne and Deutsche Oper Berlin; title role Eugene Onegin for Royal Danish Opera, Norwegian Opera and Bolshoi Theatre Moscow; Posa (Don Carlo) at Oper Frankfurt; Fieramosca (Benvenuto Cellini) at Paris Opera; Zurga  (Les pêcheurs de perles) with Geneva Opera; Germont (La Traviata) at Norwegian Opera and State Opera Prague; Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) with Teatro dell’Opera Roma; Albert  (Werther) at Royal Opera House and at Opernhaus Zürich; Marcello (La bohème) at the Royal Opera House and San Francisco Opera; Silvio (I pagliacci) at Royal Danish Opera; Alfio (Cavalleria Rusticana) and Tonio (I pagliacci) with Oper Graz; Lescaut (Manon) at the Royal Opera House; Olivier  (Capriccio) for his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut and the title role Wozzeck for Oper Frankfurt and Norwegian Opera.

Audun is based in Oslo, Norway

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Representation

Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

Season Highlights

Aug 2024 - Sep 2024
Grand Théâtre de Genève
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde (Kuwenal)
Sep 2024 - Nov 2024
Bergen National Opera
Korngold - Die tote Stadt (Frank/Fritz)
Nov 2024 - Dec 2024
Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam
Strauss - Die Fledermaus (Gabriel von Eisenstein)

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Selected Repertoire

BENJAMINWritten on Skin (The Protector)
BERGWozzeck (title role)
BIZETThe Pearl Fishers (Zurga)
DONIZETTILucia di Lammermoor (Enrico)
GLUCKAlceste (Hercule)
LEONCAVALLOPagliacci (Silvio, Tonio)
MASCAGNICavalleria Rusticana (Alfio)
MASSENETManon (Lescaut)   •   Werther (Albert)
MONTEVERDIIl Ritorno d’ulisse in Patria (Eumete)
MOZARTCosi fan tutte (Don Alfonso)   •   Don Giovanni (title role)   •   Le nozze di Figaro (Conte Almaviva)   •   The Magic Flute (Papageno)
PUCCINILa bohème(Marcello, Schaunard)   •   Madama Butterfly (Sharpless)
STRAUSSCapriccio (Olivier)
TCHAIKOVSKYEugene Onegin (title role)
VERDIDon Carlo (Rodrigo)   •   Il Trovatore (Conte di Luna)   •   La Traviata (Germont)
WAGNERTristan und Isolde (Kurwenal)

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  • Wagner - Tristan und Isolde

    Grand Théâtre de Genève
    Aug 2024 - Sep 2024
    • Impeccable too, the Kurwenal of the Norwegian baritone Audun Iversen: very rich timbre, sense of the Wagnerian singing line, sober and accurate stage acting, beautiful stage presence. He draws with great accuracy the protective tenderness of the squire, almost fusional with his dying knight, in the third act.

    • ... Audun Iversen's generous baritone as a devoted Kurwenal, stand[s] out.

    • Audun Iversen's Kurwenal is also a role that is totally convincing: in the first act he has little to say, but we immediately notice that he knows how to phrase and that he is both expressive and at ease on stage. It is in the third act that we have the confirmation of his qualities, with not only the phrasing and expressiveness but also the power and commitment, he gives off a real emotion throughout the act, giving the text all its color, and also all its power with a voice that sounds good. A character of heartbreaking humanity emerges. One of the real discoveries of the evening.

    • Audun Iversen is a Kurwenal of such beautiful workmanship, with the presence of his baritone and a legato sewn with gold thread...

    • Kurwenal has the unsuspected palm of tenderness, elegance and solemnity in the manner of Audun Iversen to place himself as an invincible, and at the same time humanly so vulnerable, filter of Tristan.

    • Norwegian baritone Audun Iversen, endowed with a richly virile baritone, was an outstanding Kurwenal. In Act I, his mocking of Isolde and Brangäne was cruelly biting. In Act III, his love and affection for Tristan were truly moving. The exchange between the two men in Act III, which can sometimes be stale, was surprisingly the most stirring moment of the performance.