Thor Inge Falch

Biography

Tenor Thor Inge Falch makes his debut at the National Theatre in Prague as Piet the Pot in Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre. Originally from Ballangen, Norway, he began his studies at the Oslo Conservatory of Music and continued his studies at the Academy of Arts there. He also studied singing privately with Andrè Orlowicz in Copenhagen.

On the stage of the Norwegian Opera in Oslo, Thor Inge Falch has performed Puccini's Cavaradossi (Tosca) and Calaf (Turandot), Verdi's Manrico (Il trovatore), Leoncavallo's Canio (Pagliacci), Strauss's Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Herod (Salome), as well as comic roles such as the Witch in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel or Piet the Pot in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre. His repertoire also includes the Captain from Berg's Wozzeck, which he staged at Oper Frankfurt, and Vova from Schnittke's Life with an Idiot, which he performed at Malmö Opera and the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen. He is also an experienced operetta singer, having sung Eisenstein and Alfred (J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus), Danilo (Lehár: Die lustige Witwe), Count Boni (Kálmán: Die Csárdásfürstin) and others.

As a concert singer, he has appeared in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Mozart's Requiem and Mass in C minor, Handel's Messiah and Die Schöpfung, Orff's Carmina Burana, Rossini's Petite messe solennelle and others.