Dan Karlström
Dan Karlström graduated from the Business School of Åbo Academy before starting his singing studies at the Sibelius-Academy in Helsinki. Later on he worked with Herbert Brauer and attended various master classes with e.g. Jaakko Ryhänen, Tom Krause and Prof. Gerhard Kahry. He joined the opera studio in 1996 and performed various roles at the Skaala Chamber Opera and at the Swedish Theatre Helsinki.
Karlström has held positions at the Schillertheater in Gelsenkirchen and the Staatstheater Darmstadt, after joining the Leipzig Opera he appeared in operas by Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, Wagner, Offenbach.
As a concert singer, his repertoire includes oratoria which he performed in Wiesbaden, Erfurt, Münster, Weimar, Berlin. He is a frequent guest of the Savonlinna Opera Festival and Finnish National Opera in Helsinki. He has also made recordings for radio, television and CD.