The Finnish bass Martti Wallén studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He made his opera début in Rigoletto at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1975. He has appeared in leading rÎles in Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Falstaff, Aida, La BohÚme, Der fliegende HollÀnder, Das Rheingold, Die WalkÌre, Die Meistersinger von NÌrnberg, Der Rosenkavalier, and The Maid of Orléans at the Royal Swedish Opera, the Finnish National Opera, Savonlinna and