Nina Stemme - Soprano
Biography
The Swedish soprano Nina Stemme is today in great demand at all major opera houses worldwide. After her debut as Cherubino in Italy, she sang and sings at opera houses like Stockholm, Vienna State Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Geneva, Zürich, Teatro San Carlo Naples, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Metropolitan Opera New York, San Francisco Opera as well as at the festivals of Bayreuth, Salzburg, Savonlinna, Glyndebourne and Bregenz the roles of her repertoire like Rosalinde/*Fledermaus, Mimi/La Bohème, Cio-Cio-San/ Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, Tatjana/Eugen Onegin, Katerina/ Greek Passion, Suor Angelica/IL trittico, Euridice/ Orfeo ed Euridice, Katerina/Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, Countess/Le nozze di Figaro, Marguerite/Faust, Agathe/Der Freischütz, Marie/Wozzeck, Nyssia/König Kandaules, Jenufa, Marschallin/Der Rosenkavalier, Eva/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Elisabeth/Tannhäuser, Elsa/Lohengrin, Senta/Der fliegende Holländer, Sieglinde/Die Walküre, Amelia/Un ballo in maschera, Leonora/Forza del destino, Aida/title role and her outstanding first Isolde/Tristan und Isolde at Glyndebourne Festival Opera which has now been published on DVD. She has also sung Isolde in EMI’s famous recording of Tristan und Isolde with Placido Domingo, and with fantastic success at Bayreuth Festival. Recent highlights were also her role debuts of Arabella in Gothenburg and of Ariadne at Geneva Opera, as well as her phenomenal Sieglinde and Brünnhilde/Siegfried in the new Ring at Vienna State Opera.
CDs: Tristan und Isolde (EMI); Greek Passion (Koch Schwann); König Kandaules (Andante); The Flying Dutchman (in English/CHANDOS); final scenes of Salome and Capriccio and Four Last Songs (EMI); Nina Stemme singt Lieder (Phaedra); In Flanders’ Fields (Phaedra). DVDs: Der Rosenkavalier; Aida; Jenufa; Tristan und Isolde. With EMI Classics she has concluded a contract of exclusivity.
Future engagements include a.o: Tristan und Isolde at Royal Opera Stockholm, Bavarian State Opera Munich, at Houston Grand Opera, Zürich Opera and Royal Opera House Covent Garden London; her role debut of Salome at Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona and Teatro Real Madrid, Katerina Ismailova/Lady Macbeth of Mzensk at the Metropolitan Opera New York, Walküre/Brünnhilde in San Francisco and Walküre/Brünnhilde at La Scala Milan, Der Fliegende Holländerand Rusalkaat Bavarian State Opera Munich, Tannhäuser at Opera Bastille Paris, Fidelio at Covent Garden London and in concert version with Claudio Abbado at the Lucerne Festival, and Un ballo in maschera at Royal Opera Stockholm.
She will also sing recitals in Strassburg, Paris and Rome as well as concerts in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Madrid, Hamburg, Lucerne and Carlstad.
Nina Stemme, who was appointed Swedish Royal Court Singer in 2006, is a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In June 2008, she was awarded with the medal “Litteris et Artibus” by H. M. the King of Sweden.
Last updated: 27.08.2008© We kindly ask you to seek our approval for any alteration or abbreviation of the biography. Thank you for your kind understanding.