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Gabriel
Suovanen born in Stockholm and studied singing at the Sibelius Academy
in 1993-94 . He first appeared as Conte Almaviva in Mozart‘s
Marriage of Figaro at the Opera Studio of the Sibelius Academy, as
Sid in Britten‘s Albert Herring at the Copenhagen Royal Opera and as
Guglielmo in Mozart‘s Così fan tutte in a production by the
Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg.
Besides
Gabriel Suovanen has won several prizes in distinguished singing
competitions, including the Timo Mustakallio singing competition, the
International Mirjam Helin Singing Competition and the first Karita
Mattila Award. In 1997-98 Gabriel Suovanen was appointed „Soloist of the
year“ by the Swedish National Radio and subsequently appeared in several
radio concerts and studio recordings with orchestra and as soloist. In
the season 1998-99 he was engaged in several productions at the
Stockholm Royal Opera, among them Fiorillo in The Barber of
Seville and Silvio in I Pagliacci. Suovanen made his debut at the
Finnish National Opera as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, at the
Savonlinna Opera Festival as Valentin in Gounod‘s Faust and at
the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie as Morales in Carmen.
In the
summer of 2000 Gabriel Suovanen sang the title role in Tuomas
Kantelinen‘s opera Paavo Nurmi, performed at the Olympic Stadium
in Helsinki. The same year he returned to the Finnish National Opera as
Marcello in La Bohème. In 2001 he sang the title role in Eugen
Onegin at the Tampere Opera and debuted at the Liceu Opera in
Barcelona as Donald in Britten‘s opera Billy Budd. He returned to
Barcelona in autumn 2001 singing Schaunard in Puccini’s La Bohème.
In the 2001-02 season he sang
Bello
at the new production of La fanciulla del west at the Finnish National
Opera and in fall 2002 he visited Norwegian Opera singing Marcello.
From
2002-05 Gabriel Suovanen joint the ensemble of the Komische Oper Berlin
where he sang Don Fernando, Papageno, Don Giovanni
and Eugen Onegin. Recent engagements include Pang in
Turandot at the Savonlinna Festival in 2003-04 and two world premiers:
Rasputin by Einojuhani Rautavaara in autumn 2003 in Helsinki
alongside with Matti Salminen and Kundler’s Kastrat at the Royal
Swedish Opera Stockholm in June 2004.
He recently
sang Yeletsky (Pique Dame) and Des Grieux (Manon Lescaut)
in Helsinki, Eugen Onegin at the Komische Oper Berlin. Upcoming
engagements include Kullervo (Kullervo) by Aulis Sallinen in
Bern, Papageno at the Savonlinna Operfestival and Eugen Onegin at
the Finnish National Opera.
In addition to his
progressing opera career, Gabriel Suovanen also enjoys performing Lied
and concert works and appears regularly with major symphony orchestras
in Sweden and Finland. His future concert engagements include among
others concert performances of Schumann’s Genoveva in Helsinki and
Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Barbara Bonney in
San Francisco. Recordings of Gabriel Suovanen are available on the
Finnish Ondine label.
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