Jussi Björling’s career included performances of opera, operetta, oratorios, masses, and song concerts.  We can get a good idea of the whole career by surveying the chronologies collected by Harald Henrysson, as published in his Jussi Björling Phonography (1993), and as an appendix to the biography Jussi co-authored by Anna-Lisa Björling and Andrew Farkas (1996). 

To date, Harald Henrysson has documented a total of 932 performances of opera and operetta by Björling, as well as some 1086 concerts of various other types. (In addition there were 895 known concerts by Jussi as a child performing with his brothers and father in "the Björling Quartet"!)

The chronology given here is based on Henrysson’s data but presents it in a different way, in terms of each operatic role he assumed, arranged in chronological order of the debut date of each role.  We owe this arrangement to Enrique Gilardoni, South American correspondent for JBS-USA and a well known speaker for radio and lecture programs, especially in South America.

 

PAGE 1 Manon Lescaut Bellman Don Giovanni Louise Guillaume Tell Saul og David Engelbrek I Cavalieri di Ekebù Tannhäuser Der Fliegende Holländer La Notte di Zoraima Il Barbiere di Sivilia Salome La Ilustre Fregona T ristan und Isolde	PAGE 2 Rigoletto Das Herz Mignon L'Elisir d'Amore Resa Till Amerika La Traviata Eugeny Onegin Das Rheingold Knyaz Igor Kronbruden
PAGE 3 R oméo et Juliette Djamileh Martha Tosca Zauberflöte Arabella Fanal Un Ballo in Maschera	PAGE 4 Faust La Boheme Il Tabarro Sadko La Fanciulla del West
PAGE 5 Die Entführung aus dem Serrail Cavalleria Rusticana Fidelio Il Trovatore Die Fledermaus Aida	PAGE 6 I Pagliacci La Damnation de Faust Madama Butterfly La Fille du Regiment Rossini in Neapel Mefistofele Der Zigeunerbaron L'Africaine Manon Lescaut Don Carlo