JAAKKO RYHANEN

The Finnish bass Jaakko Ryhänen studied at the Music Academies in Helsinki, Copenhagen and Rome. In 1972 he made his operatic début in Das Rheingold with the Finnish National Opera, of which he has been a permanent member since 1975. He has appeared in leading rôles in Macbeth, The Last Temptations, Der fliegende Holländer, Die Zauberflöte, Yevgeny Onegin, Simon Boccanegra, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Boris Godunov, Don Giovanni, Die Walküre, Das Rheingold, Tannhäuser, Don Carlos, Aida, Fidelio, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Lucia di Lammermoor, Nabucco, and Rigoletto at the Finnish National Opera and in leading opera houses around the world including Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, the Bolshoy Theatre, the Marinsky Theatre, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Hamburg State Opera, Zürich Opera, Teatro La Fenice Venice, the Paris Opéra, Chicago Lyric Opera and Los Angeles Opera.

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