The Swedish tenor Lars Cleveman studied at the Swedish Opera Academy in Stockholm and made his opera début with the free group SMDE in Death in Venice in 1984. He has appeared in leading rôles in Boris Godunov, Das Rheingold, Der fliegende Holländer, Parsifal, Otello, Don Carlos, Carmen, Werther, Madama Butterfly, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Andrea Chénier, Tristan und Isolde, Pagliacci, Turandot, Samson et Dalila, Siegfried, and Manon Lescaut at the Royal Swedish Opera and at Musikteatern in Värmland, Folkoperan Stockholm, Dalhalla, Det Kongeligeteater Copenhagen among other opera houses.