Danish tenor Adam Frandsen, a graduate of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, is a principal artist at the Göteborg Opera, where he debuted in 2017 as Tamino in The Magic Flute. Since then, he has sung Don José (Carmen), Cassio (Otello), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Jeník (The Bartered Bride), and Vaudémont (Iolanta). In the 2025–26 season, Frandsen returns to the Göteborg Opera as Rodolfo (La Bohème), Max (Der Freischütz), and Laca (Jenůfa).
Frandsen’s previous operatic highlights include the title role in Don Carlos at Folkoperan Stockholm, Rodolfo (La Bohème) at the Taichung National Theater in Taiwan and Opera Hedeland, Naraboth (Salome) at the Royal Danish Opera, the lead tenor in Moby-Dick (Knapick’s adaptation) at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, and the lead role of the Architect in The Eighth Wonder at the Sydney Opera House. He has appeared as Augustin Moser (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) at the Salzburg Easter Festival/Semperoper Dresden, Sergei in Shostakovich’s Moscow, Cheryomushki at the Semperoper, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) with the Auckland Philharmonic, Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor) at Opera Hedeland, Alfredo (La Traviata) with the Danish National Opera and Kilden Theater in Kristiansand, the Armoured Guard (The Magic Flute) at Philadelphia Opera, and Pinkerton on tour in Japan under Seiji Ozawa and Pierre Vallet.
On the concert stage, Frandsen has performed Verdi’s Requiem with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony in Canada, and in Germany with members of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and NDR Rundfunkorchester in Hannover and Hildesheim. He has sung Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Royal Concertgebouw Camerata at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, the Kioi Chamber Orchestra in Tokyo, and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Jerusalem. He has also performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Oviedo, Spain with OSPA, with the Copenhagen Philharmonic, at Verizon Hall in Philadelphia with the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, and at the Castleton Festival under Lorin Maazel.
He was a southwest regional finalist in the 2008 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the recipient of the Aalborg Opera Prize in 2015. He was also named Singer of the Year by the Danish Press Association, among numerous other awards, grants, and honors.