Stefan Egerstrom
During the 2024-25 season, bass Stefan Egerstrom makes debuts with Boston Lyric Opera as Il Re in Aida under the baton of David Angus and Maine Opera singing Colline in La bohème with Eckart Preu taking on conducting duties. He will return to the Minnesota Opera to sing Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia working with director Chuck Hudson and conductor Christopher Franklin. Mr. Egerstrom once again joins the roster at the Lyric Opera of Chicago under the baton of Music Director Enrique Mazzola to cover the roles of Sparafucile in Rigoletto with director Mary Birnbaum and Rocco in Fidelio with Matthew Ozawa.
Last season, Mr. Egerstrom covered Daland in Der fliegende Holländer with director Christopher Alden and Ramfis in Aida with director Francesca Zambello at the Lyric Opera of Chicago with Enrique Mazzola at the helm for both opera. He returned to Carnegie Hall to join the American Symphony Orchestra and Leon Botstein for Dvořák’s Requiem. Mr. Egerstrom made his San Diego Opera debut singing Masetto in Don Giovanni with Yves Abel on the podium and traveled to Tourtour to take part in The Fondation des Treilles Voice Academy which culminated in a final concert of French arias of Berlioz, Marais, Meyerbeer, and Verdi. Mr. Egerstrom returned to California in the spring to cover Hunding with San Diego Symphony and Music Director Rafael Payare when they presented Act 1 of Die Walküre in concert. Mr. Egerstrom reunited with Leon Botstein at the Fisher Center to sing the role of Brander in Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust for Bard SummerScape. During the 2022-23 season, Mr. Egerstrom made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Fourth Noble in the new François Girard production of Lohengrin conducted by Yannick Neìzet-Seìguin; performed the role of Peneios in Daphne with the American Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Leon Botstein at Carnegie Hall; and returned to the San Francisco Opera to sing Geisterbote in the David Hockney production of Die Frau ohne Schatten with Sir Donald Runnicles on the podium.
As a former San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow, he appeared in Eugene Onegin (singing the roles of Captain and Zaretsky while covering Gremin) with Vassilis Christopoulos on the podium; worked on three productions conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim including La Traviata (covering Dottore Grenvil), Tosca (Jailer), and Fidelio (Second Prisoner); and was a participant of the 2019 Merola Opera Program, subsequently performing in the Schwabacher Summer Concert and the Merola Grand Finale.
Previous appearances include Hunding in Die Walküre and King René in Iolanta with Cincinnati's Queen City Opera. As part of the "Opera Fusion: New Works initiative between Cincinnati Opera and University of Cincinnati-Conservatory of Music," he performed in workshops of Ricky Ian Gordon’s Morning Star and Gregory Spears’s Fellow Travelers. Additional roles Mr. Egerstrom has performed include Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Siroco (L’Étoile), Carlino (Don Pasquale), Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Dulcamara (L’Elisir d’Amore), Dr. Grenvil (La Traviata), and Kecal (The Bartered Bride). In concert, he has also been the bass soloist in Bach's Johannes-Passion. Mr. Egerstrom has performed with the Minnesota Opera in the world premieres of Kevin Puts’s Silent Night and Paul Moravec’s The Shining. He has also been a Young Artist with Des Moines Metro Opera, covering the roles of Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin and Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni.
In 2022, he was awarded The Richard F. Gold Career Grant from The Shoshana Foundation and a Sara Tucker Study Grant from The Richard Tucker Music Foundation. A native of Minnesota, Mr. Egerstrom received his bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from Lawrence University and his master’s degree in voice from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
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