Danish tenor Valdemar Villadsen graduated from the soloist class at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen in 2012.
He has appeared in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Philharmonie Berlin, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Danish Opera, Wiesbaden State Opera, Kiel Opera House, Teatro Principal de Burgos, Rossini Festival, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, Copenhagen Opera Festival and Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden. And he has performed acclaimed solo recitals in Paris, Rome, Basel and at the Bergen International Festival.

His opera roles include Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Almaviva in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Arnold in Rossini's Guillaume Tell, the officer in Zimmermann's Die Soldaten, Adam in Hvidtfeldt Nielsen's Chains and high tenor (haute-contre) roles in baroque operas such as Castor in Rameau's Castor et Pollux, Pygmalion in Rameau's Pygmalion, Glaucus in Leclair's Scylla et Glaucus and Apollo in Cavalli's Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne.

Villadsen is a sought-after concert and oratorio singer, where he has particularly made a name for himself as a Bach Evangelist. He has appeared as the Evangelist in Bach's passions in Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom, Iceland, Switzerland and Germany (including the Philharmonie Berlin). Other recent concert appearances include Orff's Carmina Burana (Stavanger Symphony Orchestra/Christian Vasquez), Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (l'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar) and Bach's Mass in B-minor (Concerto Copenhagen/Lars Ulrik Mortensen).

Villadsen has worked with conductors such as Giancarlo Andretta, Alessandro Amoretti, Julius Rudel, Fabio Luisi, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Christina Pluhar, Václav Luks, Andrew Lawrence-King, Paul Hillier, Carlos Mena, Matthew Toogood, Christian Vasquez, Christian Kluxen, Javier Illan, Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch, Benjamin Bayl, Mark Tatlow, David Riddell, Peter Spissky and Zsolt Hamar, and with opera directors such as Vasily Barkhatov, Sir David McVicar, Elisabeth Linton and Lucinda Childs.

Engagements in the season 2016-17 included Glaucus in Leclair’s Scylla et Glaucus at the Kiel Opera House, Adam in the world premiere of Hvidtfeldt Nielsen’s Chains at Aarhus Summer Opera, Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Arctic Arts Festival, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine at the Philharmonie Berlin and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo in Potsdam and Ghent with L’Arpeggiata.