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“Andri Björn Róbertsson’s honeyed bass gains depth with each of three appearances” Sarah Noble - The Guardian
Nebulous / Activist / Wolf in Masque of Might by Purcell/Pountney at Opera North 2023 "The performance was first-class. Andri Björn sang magnificently, immensely powerfully, but always with a sensitive feeling for the poetry."
Jónas Sen - Fréttablaðið Release concert for Thorsteinson & Schumann at Harpa Concert Hall, Reykjavík in 2021 “Andri Björn Róbertsson´s tremendously voiced Superintendent Budd.”
Sam Smith - Opera-Online Superintendent Budd in Britten’s Albert Herring at the English National Opera in 2025 ”…a terrifically plodding turn from Andri Björn Róbertsson” Guy Richards - The Critics Circle Superintendent Budd in Britten’s Albert Herring at the English National Opera in 2025 “Andri Björn Róbertsson’s Superintendent Budd, whose bass-baritone can raise and eyebrow all by itself.” Keith McDonnell - Music OMH Superintendent Budd in Britten’s Albert Herring at the English National Opera in 2025 "...remarkable recording debut...impeccable readings of Schumann's two Liederkreis…Two versions of the highest level with a voice that navigates confidently, attentive to every nuance, generous means and superlative naturalness…Three circles magnificently set by the performance of a rising baritone…"
Sebastian Spreng - Miamiclasica.com Thorsteinson & Schumann, an album released by Outhere Music label Fuga Libera in 2021 "Several scenes are quite funny, especially those with Leporello, Don Giovanni's comic sidekick."
"Bass-baritone Andri Björn Róbertsson...has good comic timing and makes a convincing Leporello..." Eystein Sandvik - NRK Leporello in Don Giovanni at Kilden Opera, Norway in 2022 "Andri Björn Róbertsson's Superintendent Budd was another brilliantly drawn characterization, finely sung and funny without descending into ridicule."
Melanie Eskenazi - Music OMH Superintendent Budd in Britten's Albert Herring at The Grange Festival in 2017 "Andri Björn Róbertsson's Gremin was exquisitely sung"
Capriccio Gremin in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at the Royal Academy Opera in 2013 "Andri Björn Róbertsson was a handsome, tall and vocally impressive Figaro."
Neil Jones - Opera Now Figaro in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at the Icelandic Opera in 2019 "…a magnificent Icelandic bass. His sumptuous timbre, his expert phrasing with great sense of the texts…"
www.journalzibeline.fr - Jacques Freschel Concert of Bach and Telemann with the Café Zimmermann baroque ensemble in Marseille in 2017 "As Sprecher and first priest one experiences the beautiful voice of Andri Björn Róbertsson."
Oper-Aktuell - Kaspar Sannemann Sprecher/First priest in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at Opernhaus Zürich 2015 |
"I would put his readings of these two cycles among the best of the dozens of recordings I’ve reviewed...I would call him a lyric bass with a rugged and steely voice, a fine balance of grit and sweetness, cavernous low notes, and transcendent tenderness especially in his upper range."
Robert Moore - American Record Guide Thorsteinson & Schumann, an album released by Outhere Music label Fuga Libera in 2021 "…his calumny aria a masterpiece of comic timing, combined with Björn Róbertsson's fabulously dark bass-baritone voice."
Robert Hugill - www.planethugill.com Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville at Nevill Holt Opera 2022 "Icelandic bass-baritone Andri Björn Róbertsson’s bible-bashing Arthur was a masterpiece of aggression and paranoia."
Peter Reed - Classical Source Arthur in Peter Maxwell Davies's The Lighthouse at the Royal Academy Opera in 2013 "…his sonorous deep bass, combined with charismatic stage presence, had one thinking of a perverted (anti-)Christ figure." Mark Berry - Boulezian Arthur in Peter Maxwell Davies's The Lighthouse at the Royal Academy Opera in 2013 "The voice is deep without being dark, supple, beautiful timbre, without artifice with a youthful character…"
Claude Jottrand - ForumOpera Thorsteinson & Schumann, an album released by Outhere Music label Fuga Libera in 2021 "The best creation is that made by the Icelandic bass of a Shakespearian Madman in the fifth scene…"
Luis Gago - El Pais Witness 3 / Madman in Sir George Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence at the Royal Opera House in 2018 "Remarkable interpretation of Schumann, a voice with beautiful deep shimmer."
David Le Marrec - Operacritiques.free.fr Thorsteinson & Schumann, an album released by Outhere Music label Fuga Libera in 2021 "Andri Björn Róbertsson was magnificent, his singing full of life and majestic."
Jónas Sen - Fréttablaðið Figaro in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at the Icelandic Opera in 2019 “…bass-baritone Andri Björn Róbertsson is excellent."
Santiago Martín Bermudez - Scherzo Witness 3/Madman in Sir George Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence - a DVD recording from the Royal Opera House in 2018 "The Icelandic bass-baritone Andri Björn Róbertsson was outstanding as the Craftsman and Gracchus." Hugo Shirley - The Spectator
Craftsman in Elspeth Brooke's The Commission & Barman/Gracchus/Policeman in Francisco Coll's Café Kafka at the Royal Opera House in 2014 "...the eloquent Icelandic baritone Andri Björn Róbertsson...Róbertsson chills the blood as he moves from barman to mythic Hunter." Hilary Finch - The Times Craftsman in Elspeth Brooke's The Commission & Barman/Gracchus/Policeman in Francisco Coll's Café Kafka at the Royal Opera House in 2014 "Andri Björn Róbertsson led the four-strong cast with his elocutionary bass-baritone" The Sunday Times - Paul Driver Craftsman in Elspeth Brooke's The Commission & Barman/Gracchus/Policeman in Francisco Coll's Café Kafka at the Royal Opera House in 2014 |