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ELIZABETH
NORBERG-SCHULZ - SOPRANO (Scandinavia) |
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The Norwegian/Italian soprano Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz is regularly invited to the world's most important opera houses, festivals and orchestras. She has worked with many distinguished conductors including Muti, Abbado, Ceccato, Gatti, Campanella, Chung, Bychkov, Sinopoli, Solti, Gergiev, Davies, Jansons, Masur, Blomstedt, Osawa, Chailly, Pappano, Kleiber, Mazel, and Tate.
Her
distinguished opera career includes many performances in Italy at Teatro alla
Scala, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Carlo Felice de Bologna, Teatro
Comunale di Firenze, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro
San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, and La Fenice.
Elsewhere she has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, the Lyric Opera
of Chicago, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Opéra Bastille, Théâtre des Champs
Elysées, La Monnaie, Teatro Real di Madrid, Opéra de Genève, Bayerisches
Staatsoper, Vienna Staatsoper and The Norwegian Opera. With La Scala she
has toured to Japan in La Bohème under Carlos Kleiber, Falstaff under Riccardo
Muti, and Turandot under Lorin Mazel.
Her
principal roles include Pamina (Chicago, Madrid, Salzburg, Vienna, Bologna),
Susanna (Milano,Madrid,Vienna), Zerlina (Rome, Napoli, Vienna), Asteria
Tamerlano (Firenze, Halle, London, Paris), Adina (Milano, Rome, Napoli, Vienna),
Lucia (Vienna, Spoleto, Oslo), Norina (Munich, Hamburg, Macerata, Napoli),
Nannetta (Milano, Salzburg, Vienna, Madrid), Gilda (Vienna, Spoleto, Palermo,
Treviso, Oslo), Oscar (Met, Chicago, Vienna, Oslo), Micaëla (Bastille, Rome,
Oslo), Liù (Covent Garden, Athens, Bologna), Mimì (Glyndebourne, Oslo),
Musetta (Firenze, Vienna), Adele Die Fledermaus (Met), Gretel (Chicago),
Constance Dialogues des Carmélites (Milano), Manon (Vienna).
Her
festival appearances include the Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro where she has
sung Corinna Viaggio a Riems, Anais Moise, Jemmy Guilielomo Tell and Giulia La
scala di seta, Salzburg, Montreux, Spoleto, Macerata, Glyndebourne Mimì in La
Boheme, the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, and the Handel Festival in Halle.
Her
many concert appearances include the Berlin Philharmonic (Schumann Requiem für
Mignon and Brahms Requiem with Abbado), Vienna Philharmonic (Mozart Mass in C
minor with Solti, Brahms Requiem with Abbado), I Filarmonici della Scala (Mozart
Requiem with Muti, and with Gergiev), Orchestra Nazionale di RAI (Mahler 4° and
Der Wein with Tate), Dresden Staatskapelle (Beethoven 9°, Strauss Lieder and
Mozart Requiem all with Sinopoli), Munich Philharmonic (Pergolesi Salve Regina
with Abbado and Lily Boulanger Clarières dans le Ciel with Viotti), Bayersicher
Rundfunk (Mahler 8° with Sir Colin Davies), Oslo Philharmonic (Mahler 4° with
Sinopoli, opera recital with Jansons), Bergen Philharmonic (Mahler 4°, Berg
Sieben Furhe Lieder, De Falla Atlantide, Brahms Requiem with Ceccato), I
Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano ( Mozart Exultate Jubilate with Ceccato) New York
Philharmonic (Debussy Le Martyr de Saint Sebastien with Masur), Chicago Symphony
(Haydn Creation with Solti), San Francisco Symphony (Brahms Requiem with
Blomstedt), Boston Symphony (L'Enfant et les Sortilèges with Osawa), Orchestre
de Paris (Mahler 2° and Beethoven 9° with Bychkow), Brahms Requiem in
Tanglewood with Boston Symphony (de Burgos),Beethoven in Malaga (
Ceccato). Micaëla in Rome and Oslo, Romilda Xerses at the Théâtre des Champs
Elysées under William Christie, Elena Cappello di Paglia di Firenze in Torino,
Gilda in Bologna with Gatti and on tour in Korea, Norina in Oslo and Catania,
Susanna and Despina in Genova and in Napoli, Zerlina in Cagliari.Donna Anna in
Oslo and Bergen International Festival 2006, as well as several Liederabender
and orchestra recitals in Italy, Norway, Sweden, England and Italy.
In
Norway Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz is artistic advisor and protector of the annual
“Kirsten Flagstad Festival” in Flagstads hometown
Hamar,Norway.(www.flagstad-festival.no) and artistic advisor and faculty
member of “Nordfjord International Opera Workshop”, Nordfjordeid,
Norway. (www.operanordfjord.no) and of Oslo Opera Festival ( www.kulturentusiastene.no)
She
has recorded for Philips, Decca, EMI, Ricordi and BMG including Mozart Mass in C
minor, Nannetta Falstaff with Solti, Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem with Blomstedt
that got the Grammy Award, Marzelline Fidelio and Mahler 8° with Sir Colin
Davies, Tebaldo Don Carlos with Haitink, Romilda Serse with W.Christie and
Asteria Tamerlano with Pinnock. She has also recorded a recital disc of
songs by Grieg with pianist Håvard Gimse.
HM
The King of Norway has appointed Ms. Norberg-Schulz “Commander of the
Royal Order of St.Olaf”. She is recipient of the prestigious “Grieg Prize”
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