This will be the second summer at Opera på Skäret for the Swedish bass Staffan Liljas, who performed the role of Count Ceprano in Rigoletto in 2023. In recent years, Staffan has portrayed the Pharaoh in Aida at Wermland Opera, participated in the children’s opera Where is the Sandwich? at the Royal Swedish Opera, and performed a solo concert with the Dalasinfonietta. He has also sung Gremin in Eugene Onegin in the Netherlands and recorded a romance album with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, he performed as Polyphemus in Handel’s Acis & Galatea with Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón at the Opéra Royal de Versailles.