Håkan Hagegård

Håkan Hagegård (born November 25, 1945, Karlstad, Sweden) is a Swedish operatic baritone.

He studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and has performed on stages across the world, including Carnegie Hall, the London Royal Opera House, La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the Sydney Opera House, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Vienna State Opera ("Così fan tutte" conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt), and the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. He played the role of Papageno in Ingmar Bergman's acclaimed film version of Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte" ("Trollflöjten", 1975). He sang the baritone solos in choral conductor Robert Shaw's acclaimed and highly popular 1980 recording of "Carmina Burana", with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.In 1985, he was appointed vocalist to King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Music at the Indiana University Bloomington School of Music. Hagegard also holds a Professorship in Vocal Studies at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway.

He has premiered notable song cycles by such prominent composers as Dominick Argento and Stephen Paulus.

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