In the 2025/26 season, he returns twice to the role for which he has been celebrated by audiences and critics alike since his role debut: Siegfried. He portrays the title character of the third part of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung in a new production by the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing and at the Wagner Days in Budapest. He appears as Parsifal in Budapest and Caracas, and makes his role debut as Rienzi at the Bayreuth Festival. With the Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, he made his role debut in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, and at the Malmö Opera he appeared as Lohengrin and Don José (Carmen), and with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra as Doctor Marianus in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. Further engagements took him to Hamburg and on tour throughout his native Denmark, among other places.

He opened the 2024/25 season with his role debut in the title role of Wagner’s Siegfried at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels in a new production by Pierre Audi under the musical direction of Alain Altinoglu; immediately followed by a new production of Janáček’s Kát’a Kabanová at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, in which he appeared as Tichon. In the summer of 2025, he returned to the role of Siegfried, this time at the Sofia Wagner Festival. Over the course of the season, he also appeared as Walther von Stolzing in no fewer than three productions of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: First, he returned to the Royal Danish Opera, where Maestro Axel Kober conducted the Danish cast in the Laurent Pelly co-production with the Teatro Real in Madrid. For the revival of the Wieler/Viebrock/Morabito production in March 2025, the Deutsche Oper Berlin invited him to reprise the role of Stolzing, and he ultimately sang the same role during the renowned Budapest Wagner Days at Müpa, this time directed by Michael Schulz. He also returned to the Prague National Theatre to sing the role of Erik in The Flying Dutchman.

Other highlights of recent years include Stolzing at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the award-winning “Wagner 22” festival in Leipzig, Siegmund (Die Walküre) at Zurich Opera House, at the Budapest Wagner Days, in Naples and Helsinki, Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser) in Bayreuth, Boris (Kát'a Kabanová) in a production by Calixto Bieito at the Semperoper Dresden, Tichon (Kát'a Kabanová) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Albert Gregor (The Makropulos Affair) under Karina Canellakis at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Boris (Kát'a Kabanová) at the Komische Oper Berlin and at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, as well as Janik (The Diary of One Who Disappeared) at the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg.

Magnus Vigilius is the winner of the prestigious Reumert Prize as “Singer of the Year” and a prize winner of the International Lauritz Melchior Singing Competition. He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with majors in voice and acting.