Jan Kyhle

Jan Kyhle is a Swedish opera and musical singer. He is a tenor, although until 1991 he was a baritone.

Opera career

As a student Jan Kyhle attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. He began his singing career in the bands Lustans Lakejer and Reeperbahn in the early 1980s and then applied to the University College of Opera, Stockholm. In 1991, he had his breakthrough when he sang the role of Siegmund in The Valkyrie at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. Some of his other roles in opera are:

Pelléas in Pelléas and Mélisande by Debussy.
The title role in Doktor Glas by Arne Mellnäs.
Siegmund in The Valkyrie by Wagner:
*In 2001 and 2003 at the Scottish Opera in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
*In 2004 and 2006 at the Gothenburg Opera.
Grigory in Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky.
The Prince in Rusalka by Dvořák.
The title role in Parsifal by Wagner.

Musicals

He has also sung roles in musicals, including:

Passarino in The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Raoul in the same musical
Jean Valjean in Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg:
*In 2000 at the Gothenburg Opera.
*In 2001 at the Malmö Opera and Music Theatre.
Guido in Nine by Maury Yeston.