新成立的冰岛国家歌剧院已任命 Finnur Bjarnason 为首任总经理。这家新歌剧团于 2025年成立，是冰岛国家剧院的一个部门。

比亚纳森以最初的五年合同开始任期，届时歌剧在冰岛历史上首次合法地获得与戏剧和舞蹈并列的永久地位。

冰岛国家歌剧院是一家公立文化机构，于 2025 年 7 月根据芬兰议会 Althing 的立法成立。

2024 年，成立于 1970 年代末的前冰岛歌剧院因政治决定而停止运营，导致冰岛失去了一家歌剧院。

2023年，冰岛政府宣布2024年后停止资助冰岛歌剧院，成立新的国家歌剧院。

Bjarnason 来自冰岛雷克雅未克，在市政厅音乐与戏剧学院学习歌唱。他的歌剧经历包括在格林德伯恩歌剧院、英国国家歌剧院、荷兰歌剧院、柏林喜歌剧院和国家歌剧院以及巴黎夏特莱歌剧院和香榭丽舍大街演出。

他还曾在威格莫尔音乐厅等场所举行独奏会，并在亨德尔的《弥赛亚》、与马库斯·克里德和巴伐利亚广播乐团合作的《亚历山大盛宴》以及与 Le Concert d’Astrée 合作的《蒙特威尔第牧歌》中独奏。

在新的冰岛国家歌剧院中，比亚纳森的职责将包括监督艺术运营和节目编排等职责。

“这自然是我能想象到的最好的工作，”比亚纳森表示。 “[我对国家歌剧院的愿景]在某些方面将是不同寻常的，因为新歌剧被视为一种合作……并将作为一个独立单位在国家剧院内进行。然后，当然，将会与冰岛交响乐团和乐器演奏家进行非常密切的合作，就像现在的情况一样。”

The newly launched Icelandic National Opera has appointed Finnur Bjarnason as its first General Director. The new opera company launched in 2025 as a division of the National Theatre of Iceland. Beginning his tenure on an initial five-year contract, Bjarnason will lead the company at a time when opera has lawfully garnered a permanent position alongside drama and dance for the first time in Iceland’s history.

The Icelandic National Opera, a publicly run cultural institution, was established by legislation in the Althing, the Finnish parliament, in July 2025. This comes as Iceland was left without an opera company in 2024 when the former Icelandic Opera, founded in the late 1970s, ceased operations due to a political decision. In 2023, the Icelandic government announced it would cease funding the Icelandic Opera after 2024 to establish a new national opera company.

Hailing from Reykjavík, Iceland, Bjarnason studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His operatic experience includes roles at Glyndebourne, English National Opera, Netherlands Opera, the Komische and Staatsoper in Berlin, and the Châtelet and Champs-Elysées in Paris. He has also appeared in recitals at venues including Wigmore Hall, and performed solo in Handel’s Messiah, Alexander’s Feast with Marcus Creed and the Bayerischer Rundfunk, and Monteverdi Madrigals with Le Concert d’Astrée.

With the new Icelandic National Opera, Bjarnason’s role will involve overseeing artistic operations and programming, among other responsibilities.“This is naturally the best job I can imagine,” Bjarnason expressed. “[My vision for the national opera] will be unusual in some ways because the new opera is conceived as a collaboration ... and will be within the National Theatre as an independent unit. Then, of course, there will be very close collaboration with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and instrumentalists, as has been the case.”