Jyrki Niskanen

Jyrki Niskanen is an operatic tenor from Finland.

Niskanen made his professional debut in the role of Florestan in "Fidelio" at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 1992. Amongst the roles he played over the next ten years are Paul in "Die Tote Stadt" [cite web | title = In Review | publisher = Metropolitan Opera, New York | date = 1997-01-25 | url = http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/_archive/12597/reports.12597.html | accessdate = 2007-01-16 ] , and Tristan in "Tristan und Isolde" [cite web | title = Half a winner - again | publisher = Concertonet.com | date = 1999-02-27 | url = http://www.concertonet.com/scripts/review.php?ID_review=517 | accessdate = 2007-01-16 ] .

He has given concert performances in Finland, Norway, Estonia, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and USA. Niskanen's recorded works include the following albums:

*"Recital in Helsinki" (1990)
*"Love songs" (1994)
*"Holy Night" (1996)
*"Beethoven 9th symphony (with Orchestra La Scala, conductor Riccardo Muti) (1998)
*"Operetten" (with Eva Martón and Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln) (1998)
*"Tristan und Isolde" (as Tristan, with Lorin Maazel) (2001)

Important conducters worked with:
Paavo Berglund, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Adam Fischer, Mikko Franck, Heinz Fricke, Valery Gergijev, Nicolas Harnoncourt, Eliahu Imbal, Michail Jurowski, Okko Kamu, Eri Klas, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Ulf Schirmer, Peter Schneider, Leif Segerstam, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Pinchas Steinberg, Jeffrey Tate, Christian Thielemann, Edo de Waart and Ralf Weikrt

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