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Johan Reuter

    baritone
    © Miklos Szabo

    Bass-baritone Johan Reuter is currently one of the busiest Danish opera singers worldwide. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the Royal Danish Opera Academy in Copenhagen. From 1996 to 2019, he served in the soloist ensemble at the Royal Danish Opera. Since 2000, he has sung a great number of roles with the main emphasis on operas by Wagner and Strauss in opera houses of cities such as London, New York, Vienna, Salzburg, Berlin, Munich, Zurich, Paris and Amsterdam. Johan Reuter has recorded countless CDs, including Tristan and Isolde under Janowski and Nielsen’s Maskarade under Ulf Schirmer (1996) and Michael Schønwandt (2015), both for Dacapo Records. He also starred in Peter Heises Drot og Marsk under Michael Schønwandt for Dacapo Records (2021).

    • C.F.E. Horneman

      Aladdin

      Horneman adds new lustre to the old fairy tale about Aladdin, taken from the Arabian One Thousand and One Nights

    • Peter Heise

      Drot og Marsk

      A magnificent opera about events which led to the murder of King Erik Clipping in 1286

    • Carl Nielsen

      Saul & David

      The Royal Danish Opera’s spectacular new production of Carl Nielsen’s dramatic debut opera

    • Carl Nielsen

      Maskarade

      Michael Schønwandt conducts a sparkling cast of today’s finest Nielsen singers and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra

    • Bo Holten

      Venus' Wheel - Works for Choir

      New works by Bo Holten, one of the ablest choral composers and directors of our time, here fronting the Flemish Radio Choir

    • Rued Langgaard

      Music of the Spheres

      Rued Langgaard’s most visionary works form the impressive conclusion to Dacapo’s acclaimed Dausgaard-Langgaard cycle

    • Bo Holten

      The Visit of the Royal Physician (DVD)

      Bo Holten's new and greatly received opera on DVD recorded live from the Royal Opera in Copenhagen

    • Vagn Holmboe

      The Key Masterpieces

      An outstanding introduction to the clear-sighted master of 20th-century Nordic music

    • Rued Langgaard

      Symphonies 15-16

      The last two symphonies and a handful of short pieces by the Romantic firebrand Langgaard

    • Carl Nielsen

      Maskarade (DVD)

      The Danish national opera in a rebellious, witty new interpretation

    • Poul Ruders

      Kafka's Trial

      The vibrant successor to Ruders’ world success The Handmaid’s Tale

    • Vagn Holmboe

      Requiem for Nietzsche

      An impressive, uncompromising oratorio based on the life of Nietzsche – a major work in Danish music

    • C.E.F. Weyse

      The Sleeping Draught

      Complete recording of the charming and lively Singspiel that became one of the hits of the 1800s in Danish music

    • Dietrich Buxtehude

      Vocal Music Vol. 2

      Dufay Collective perform sacred cantatas in a concentrated, personal Baroque style

    • F.L.Ae. Kunzen

      Holger Danske

      The first masterpiece of Danish opera – a rescue opera, a fairy tale and a Turkish opera all at once