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The major Mozart tenor roles are now a central part of his repertoire, as well as the works of Monteverdi, Rameau, and George Frideric Handel. Lehtipuu was vocalist and violinist in the rock band Höyry-kone, performed as an actor, participated as a voice actor and singer in animated films, and produced Finnish versions of Disney films. He soon performed at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and made a stunning role debut as Belmonte at the FNO in Helsinki.
The major Mozart tenor roles are now a central part of his repertoire, as well as the works of Monteverdi, Rameau, and Handel.
For example, he was part of the ensemble that gave the world premieres of Peter Eötvös’s Die Tragödie des Teufels at the Bavarian Staatsoper and of Helmut Oehring’s Aschemond at the Berlin Staatsoper. In 1999 Lehtipuu made his debut as Britten’s Albert Herring at the Finnish National Opera in Vantaa and as Tamino in Mozart’s Magic Flute at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, where he currently resides.
As a manager, Lehtipuu led the Joroinen Music Days from 2004 to 2010 and the Turku Music Festival from 2010 to 2013.
August 2014
Topi Lehtipuu made his stage debuts at the Vantaa Opera (Finnish National Opera) in the title role of Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring), at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, and then appeared as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris.
In 2006 he appeared as Ferrando in Così fan tutte at the Glyndebourne Festival; in 2007 he returned to the Paris Opera in G.F. Handel’s Ariodante.
Topi Lehtipuu's extensive concert repertoire includes numerous oratorios and cantatas from J.S. Bach to Monteverdi as well as 20th-century music by such composers as Rautavaara, Schoenberg, and Pärt, to name but a few.
Among his teachers were Peter Lindroos and Howard Crook. Much sought-after for his fine interpretation of New as well as Old Music, Topi Lehtipuu is often working under the batons of Ivor Bolton, William Christie, René Jacobs and Christophe Rousset, as well as Paul McCreesh, Emmanuelle Haïm, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Peter Schreier and Jean-Christophe Spinosi.
Among his teachers were Peter Lindroos and Howard Crook. He is active on the early-music scene, working under the batons of René Jacobs at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival and the and the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden, with William Christie in Rameau's Les Paladins at the Châtelet in Paris; and with Christophe Rousset - lately in period performances of Mozart's Entführung aus dem Serail.
He made his stage debut in the title role of Britten's Albert Herring at the Finnish National Opera and then appeared as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. He has sung in concerts and toured in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, France, Norway, Spain, and Japan, performing with Michel Corboz and the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne or under other renowned conductors as Helmuth Rilling, Peter Schreier, William Christie, and Sir John Eliot Gardiner, with whom he has recorded several of the Haydn masses (Philips).
In Germany, Lehtipuu has appeared with both the RIAS Kammerchor and the Berliner Akademie für Alte Musik, at the Dresden Music Festival, at both the Konzerthaus and the Philharmonie in Berlin, including Renard by Igor Stravinsky with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle (2005).
He soon performed at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and made a stunning role debut as Belmonte at the FNO in Helsinki. Besides his many engagements in France, Finland and at the Salzburg Festival, he has appeared in Los Angeles, Berlin, Dresden, Zürich, London, Madrid and Glyndebourne.
Topi Lehtipuu has sung Hylas in Berlioz’s Les Troyens conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner and was heard in the world premiere of Péter Eötvös’s Angels in America (Paris, 2004).
He has also collaborated with Sir Simon Rattle and with Esa-Pekka Salonen in their projects in Berlin and Los Angeles, respectively.
Lehtipuu made his debut at the Salzburg Festival with two concerts (Mozart's Mass in C minor and Ariodante), and he has already been reinvited for a production of Zaïde in 2006.
09/06
Born in Australia and a resident of Paris, Finnish tenor Topi Lehtipuu studied piano and violin at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and later on choral directing and singing.
His repertoire ranges from early music through Mozart and bel canto to modernist classics and works of the present. He has also appeared in Handel's Ariodante and as Hylas in Berlioz' Les Troyens. Born in Finland, resident in Paris, he studied piano and violin at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and later choral directing and singing.