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Ingvar Wixell was a Swedish opera singer. He made his debut in 1955 as Papageno in Mozart's "The Magic Flute" at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm where he was member of the company until 1967.

He made his British debut during the company's visit to the Edinburgh International Festival in 1959 and returned with this company to Covent Garden the following year, before performing at Glyndebourne and at the Proms in 1962. For the Royal Opera, London he sang "Boccanegra" in 1972. In America he appeared at San Francisco Opera (Belcore, 1972) and the Metropolitan Opera (Rigoletto, 1973).

Following his Eurovision appearance, he was a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin for more than 30 years. Among other roles, Wixell sang Figaro in Rossini's "The Barber of Seville", Escamillo in Bizet's "Carmen", Amonasro in Verdi's "Aida", Baron Scarpia in Puccini's "Tosca", and the title roles in Verdi's "Rigoletto", "Simon Boccanegra", Mozart's "Don Giovanni", Verdi's "Falstaff" and Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin".

He ended his career in 2003 by singing the Music teacher in Richard Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos" at Malmö Opera.

He died on October 8, 2011, aged 80.

Eurovision Song Contest 1965
Participants
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