Johannes Weisser

Johannes Weisser was born in 1980 in Norway. He studied at the Music Conservatory in Copenhagen and at the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen with Susanna Eken. Weisser has quickly made a name for himself as one of the most exciting up-and-coming Scandinavian singers. Already his repertoire spans music from Monteverdi up to works of Weill and Britten. At the age of 23 he made his debut at the Norwegian National Opera as Masetto in Don Giovanni.

Since then he has appeared at Théâtre de La Monnaie Brussels, Royal Danish Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Salzburg Festival, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in roles such as Leporello, Masetto and the title role in Don Giovanni, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Schaunard in La Bohème, Giove in Cavalli’s La Calisto and Valens in Handel’s Theodora. He has worked with conductors such as René Jacobs, Fabio Biondi, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Philippe Herreweghe, Adam Fischer, Kirill Petrenko, Daniel Reuss, Andreas Spering, Christoph Spering, Alfredo Bernardini, Francesco Corti and Lars Ulrik Mortensen.

Johannes Weisser is a much sought after concert and oratorio singer and he regularly appears in concert venues and festivals throughout Europe. Also as a Lied interpreter he is exceptionally communicative and in the spring of 2007 he made an extensive recital tour in Scandinavia, including concerts with the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes.

Johannes Weisser has recorded the title role in Don Giovanni, Telemann’s Brockes Passion, and Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with René Jacobs for Harmonia Mundi.

July 2009