Vänttinen, Jussi
No. 55
Voice type: Baritone
Country: Finland
Date of birth: 15 February, 1990
Jussi Vänttinen is a Finnish baritone and the winner of the 2019 Lappeenranta National Singing Competition.
He made his debut at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet in September 2019 in the role of Moralès (Bizet: Carmen). In September 2021 he made his debut as a soloist of Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Igor Stravinsky’s chamber opera Renard.
Over the past few years, Jussi has performed the roles of Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia, Starveling in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas, Fiorello in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Enrico in Il campanello, Ben in The Telephone, and Danilo in Die lustige Witwe. Jussi Vänttinen has performed as a soloist with Oulu Symphony Orchestra, Lohja City Orchestra, Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, Pori Sinfonietta and Lappeenranta City Orchestra. He is also active as a lied singer. His current lied repertoire includes for example Schubert’s Schwanengesang song cycle, Brahms’s Vier ernste Gesänge, Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Liederkreis Op. 24, Duparc’s songs and Ravel’s Don Quichotte á Dulcinée song cycle.
He is also a well-liked contemporary music performer. In December 2019 he participated in the premiere of Paavo Korpijaakko's The Trial and Uljas Pulkkis’s opera I väntan på en jordbävning (Waiting for Earthquake). In April 2020, he sang in Kari Tikka’s opera Love is Strong as Death, and in June 2021 in the title role of Sebastian Fagerlund’s opera Döbeln.
Jussi Vänttinen received his MMus at the University College of Opera in Stockholm and at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Die Vätergruft
Rossini: Largo al factotum – Figaro’s cavatina from Il barbiere di Siviglia
Gounod: O sainte médaille... Avant de quitter ces lieux – Valentin’s recitative and aria from Faust
Semi-final
Mozart: Hai già vinta la causa!... Vedro, mentr’io sospiro – Count Almaviva’s recitative and aria from Le nozze di Figaro
Britten: Within this frail crucible of light - Tarquinius’s aria from The Rape of Lucretia
Final
Korngold: Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen – Fritz’s aria from Die tote Stadt
Donizetti: Come Paride vezzoso – Belcore’s aria from L’elisir d’amore
Britten: Look, through the port comes the moonshine astray!... And farewell to ye – Billy’s Farewell from Billy Budd