The Dane Magnus Vigilius “is shaping up to be a future dramatic tenor in the top league” (OperaOnline) and “leaves all his current colleagues in this role [as Siegfried] trailing behind him. The future belongs to him!” (OnlineMerker). “With his charisma of heroism, youth, and naivety, his radiant timbre, his steely high notes, and his dreamlike phrasing, he thrilled the audience” (OperaWorld), because “Vigilius’ vocal quality is one-of-a-kind, in addition to his personality and embodiment of the character.” (OperaWire).

In the 2025/26 season, he will return twice to the role for which he has been celebrated by audiences and critics alike since his debut: Siegfried. He will embody the title character of the third part of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung in a new production at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and at the Wagner Days in Budapest. In Budapest, he will also appear as Parsifal. With the Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, he will make his role debut in the title role of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, and with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, he will be heard as Doctor Marianus in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. Further engagements will take him to Hamburg and on tour through his native Denmark, among other places.

He opened the 2024/25 season with his debut in the title role of Wagner’s Siegfried at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels in a new production by Pierre Audi under the musical direction of Alain Altinoglu; followed immediately by a new production of Janáček’s Kát’a Kabanová at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, in which he appeared as Tichon, directed by Aurore Fattier and conducted by Michael Güttler. In the summer of 2025, he returned to the role of Siegfried, this time at the Sofia Wagner Festival. During the season, he also appeared in no fewer than three productions of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg as Walther von Stolzing: first, he returned to the Royal Danish Opera, where Maestro Axel Kober conducted the Danish cast in the Laurent Pelly co-production with the Teatro Real in Madrid. For the revival of the Wieler/Viebrock/Morabito production in March 2025, the Deutsche Oper Berlin invited him to sing Stolzing in another production, and finally he sang the same role during the renowned Budapest Wagner Days at the Müpa, this time directed by Michael Schulz. He also returned to the Prague National Theater to sing Erik in The Flying Dutchman.

In the 2023/2024 season, Magnus Vigilius gave exciting and successful house debuts at Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the Semperoper in Dresden. In Berlin he could be heard as Stolzing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and in Dresden as Boris in Kát’a Kabanová in a production by Calixto Bieito.

Other highlights included Albert Gregor in Věc Makropulos under the baton of maestra Karina Canellakis for his first appearance at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Siegmund in Die Walküre during the Budapest Wagner Days at the Müpa and his role debut as Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos in Prague under the baton of Robert Jindra.

The season 2021/2022 offered no fewer than four Wagner-role-debuts: Walther von der Vogelweide in Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival, Parsifal at the Rued Langgaard festival in Ribe, Walther von Stolzing in a production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, which was part of the award-winning festival “Wagner 22” in Leipzig, and the title role in Siegfried at Den Ny Opera in Esbjerg-Ringen.

In 2019, Vigilius gave his celebrated role debut as Lohengrin at the National Opera in Prague; he sang the same role in the award-winning production at the Meiningen State Theater in 2022 and at Lübeck Theater in 2023.

In 2017, he had his breakthrough as a Wagner tenor in Denmark, when he sang Siegmund in Die Walküre at Den Ny Opera in Esbjerg, a performance that secured him the prestigious Reumert-prize as Singer of the Year and subsequent invitations to sing the same role at Kiel Opera and Leipzig Oper in Germany, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the National Opera in Helsinki, and the Oper House Zurich.

In 2014, after a decade of performing minor and leading roles in contemporary opera productions in Scandinavia and England, Vigilius participated in the “Lauritz Melchior International Singing Competition” in Aalborg, where he won 2nd prize, as well as the special prize awarded by the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra. This launched an international career in the dramatic German repertoire.

After a few years of intense vocal studies with Elena and Torsten Kerl, he made his Wagner-debut as Erik in Der fliegende Holländer at Opera på Skäret in 2016.

In addition to the German repertoire, Magnus Vigilius also excels in Italian roles, including Cavaradossi in Tosca, which he has sung both at the Royal Opera in Stockholm and Malmö Opera, as well as in the Czech repertoire, especially in operas by Leoš Janáček, with roles such as Števa (Jenůfa), Janik (Zápisník Zmizelého) and both Tichon and Boris (Kát’a Kabanová), which he has performed with great success on stages all over Europe and most recently at the Semperoper Dresden in the spring of 2024.

Magnus Vigilius graduated with a major in vocal performance and drama from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen.