Lennart Forsén will appear at the Royal Swedish Opera in the autumn of 2024 in roles as the Village Judge in Jenůfa and the 1. Handwerksbursche in Wozzeck.
Education
Royal College of Music and University College of Opera in Stockholm.
Debut
The Archbishop of Tchaikovsky's Joan of Arc at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1986.
Selected roles at the Royal Swedish Opera
Wagner: Gurnemanz (Parsifal), Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Heinrich (Lohengrin), Hermann (Tannhäuser), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Fasolt and Fafner (Das Rheingold), Hunding (Die Walküre), Fafner (Siegfried). Mozart: Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro). Verdi: Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Banquo (Macbeth), Grand Inquisitor (Don Carlos), King (Aida), Lodovico (Otello), Pistola (Falstaff). Puccini: Colline (La bohème), Timur (Turandot). Rossini: Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Alindoro (La Cenerentola). Stravinsky: Trulove (The Rake's Progress). Smetana: Kecal (The Bartered Bride). Gefors: Descartes (Christina). Tchaikovsky: Furst Gremin (Jevgenij Onegin), Surin (Queen of Spades). Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale). Grétry/Ankarblom: Sandor (Zemir and Azor). Bizet: Zuniga (Carmen).
Other engagements
1991-93 engaged at Oper Leipzig, 1994-95 Royal Swedish Opera, 1998-2000 Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf/Duisburg.
Guest performances
The National Opera in Helsinki, the Göteborg Opera, the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Malmö Opera, Dalhalla, Folkoperan in Stockholm, the Oscarsteatern, Oper Frankfurt, Oper Hannover, Oper Gera, the Salzburger Festspiele, the Turku Festival, the Vadstena Academy, and others in roles such as Wagner's Marke (Tristan), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Fafner (Das Rheingold), Mozart's Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Donizetti's Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Massenet's Le Comte des Grieux (Manon), Beethoven's Rocco (Fidelio), Rossini's Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Verdi's Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Il Re (Aida) and Banquo (Macbeth), Puccini's Colline (La bohème), Timur (Turandot), Angelotti (Tosca), Heiniö's Jöran Persson (Eerik XIV), and others.
CD recordings
König Marke in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
DVD recording
Jöran Persson in Heiniö's Eerik XIV.
