EVA JOHANSSOHN
Elektra - title role
She was born in Copenhagen and educated at Ingrid Jespersens School. Later she studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and then the Copenhagen Opera. She made her debut at the Danish Royal Theatre in 1982 as the Countess in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and later sang the titles roles of Elektra and Salome, and Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. In 1988 Götz Friedrich invited her to the Deutsche Oper Berlin and she has been closely collaborating with that company ever since. Between 1988 and 1993 she sang at the Bayreuth Festival: Elsa in Lohengrin and Freia in Das Rheingold, and then returned in 2004 to sing Sieglinde in Die Walküre. She made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1998 in the role of Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. In 2000 she appeared at the Los Angeles Opera as Sieglinde. She has also sung on stages in Israel, Spain, France, Austria, the United Kingdom and Japan, working with conductors including Claudio Abbado, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Valery Gergiyev, Simon Rattle and Christoph von Dohnanyi. Being a dramatic soprano she has mainly sung the operas of Wagner and Strauss: Senta in Der fliegende Holländer, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, Brünhilde in Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung, the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten and the title roles of Elektra, Salome and Ariadne auf Naxos. In 2001, she was granted the title of Kammersängerin in Berlin.
Elektra - title role
She was born in Copenhagen and educated at Ingrid Jespersens School. Later she studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and then the Copenhagen Opera. She made her debut at the Danish Royal Theatre in 1982 as the Countess in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and later sang the titles roles of Elektra and Salome, and Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. In 1988 Götz Friedrich invited her to the Deutsche Oper Berlin and she has been closely collaborating with that company ever since. Between 1988 and 1993 she sang at the Bayreuth Festival: Elsa in Lohengrin and Freia in Das Rheingold, and then returned in 2004 to sing Sieglinde in Die Walküre. She made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1998 in the role of Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. In 2000 she appeared at the Los Angeles Opera as Sieglinde. She has also sung on stages in Israel, Spain, France, Austria, the United Kingdom and Japan, working with conductors including Claudio Abbado, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Valery Gergiyev, Simon Rattle and Christoph von Dohnanyi. Being a dramatic soprano she has mainly sung the operas of Wagner and Strauss: Senta in Der fliegende Holländer, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, Brünhilde in Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung, the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten and the title roles of Elektra, Salome and Ariadne auf Naxos. In 2001, she was granted the title of Kammersängerin in Berlin.