Ingvar Wixell (born May 7, 1931 in Lule) is a Swedish baritone opera singer.

Wixell made his debut 1955 as Papageno in Mozart s The Magic Flute. He worked at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm 1955–1967. He was engaged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin 1967 where he was a member for more than 30 years.

Among other roles he has sung Figaro in Rossini s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Escamillo in Bizet s Carmen Amonasro in Verdi s Ada, Baron Scarpia in Puccini s Tosca, the title characters in Verdi s Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, and Falstaff, as well as Tchaikovsky s Eugene Onegin.

In 1965, Wixell performed all the songs in the competition to select Sweden s Eurovision Song Contest entry. The winning song was "Annorstdes Vals" (Elsewhere Waltz), which Wixell went on to perform at the international final in Naples. In a break from the then prevailing tradition, the song was sung in English (as "Absent Friend"). This led to the introduction from 1966 onwards of a rule stipulating that each country s entry must be sung in one of the languages of that country. (This rule was cancelled for the years 1973 to 1977, reinstated in 1978, and cancelled again in 1999.)