Håkan Hagegård

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Opera singer Håkan Hagegård (born November 25, 1945) is a Swedish 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, and the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. He played the role of Papageno in Ingmar Bergman's film version of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (1975). He sang the baritone solos in Robert Shaw (conductor)'s acclaimed and highly popular 1980 recording of Carmina Burana (Orff), 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.

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