Icelandic opera singer Gardar Thor Cortes was recently interviewed in his UK home by Hello! Magazine. The eight-page spread on the Icelandic singer follows the release of his latest album, ‘When You Say You Love Me’ on June 30th.
Gardar Thor Cortes is one of his country’s best-known musical exports and has been twice voted Iceland’s Sexiest Man. The Icelandic tenor already has a number one album under his belt, along with a Classical Brit Award nomination and a performance schedule almost as long as Wagner’s Ring Cycle.
‘Cortes’, his hit first record, went to the top of the UK charts for three weeks and was double platinum in the singer’s native Iceland.
Widely dubbed ‘the James Bond of Opera’, Cortes tells Hello! Magazine that “the only thing James Bond and I have in common is we both wear suits to work.”
Cortes and his actress wife Tinna invited Hello! into their country house in Surrey for an interview and photo shoot. The magazine said the Icelandic couple divides their time between their home in the UK and their spiritual homeland, Iceland. Their busy and independent schedules mean that work often keeps them apart for extended periods.
“We try not to spend more than three weeks apart,” says Tinna – but the couple still finds this arrangement can be difficult. Recently, whilst Gardar was on tour in Europe and North America, Tinna was appearing in a play in northern Iceland.
Cortes’ new album, When You Say You Love Me, features a mix of classical opera and modern songs, as well as previously unheard material.
For more information on the new album and upcoming Cortes events visit: www.officialcortes.com