Nina Stemme (Stemme) (Nina Stemme) |
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Swedish opera singer Nina Stemme successfully performs at the most prestigious venues in the world. Having made her debut in Italy as Cherubino, she subsequently sang on the stage of the Stockholm Opera House, the Vienna State Opera, the Semperoper Theater in Dresden; she has performed in Geneva, Zurich, the San Carlo Theater in Neapolitan, the Liceo in Barcelona, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the San Francisco Opera; She has taken part in music festivals in Bayreuth, Salzburg, Savonlinna, Glyndebourne and Bregenz.
The singer sang the role of Isolde in the EMI recording of “Tristan und Isolde” with Plácido Domingo as her partner. The performance was successfully performed at festivals in Glyndebourne and Bayreuth, at the Zurich Opera House, London’s Covent Garden and the Bavarian State Opera (Munich). Also noteworthy are Stemme’s debut performances as Arabella (Gothenburg) and Ariadne (Geneva Opera); performance of the parts of Sieglinde and Brunhilde in the opera Siegfried (from the new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Vienna State Opera); debut as Salome on the stage of the Teatro Liceo (Barcelona); all three parts of Brünnhilde in the tetralogy “Ring of the Nibelung” in San Francisco, the performance of the same part in “The Valkyrie” on the stage of La Scala; the role of Fidelio on stage at Covent Garden and a concert version of the same opera conducted by Claudio Abbado at the Lucerne Festival; roles in the operas Tannhäuser (Opera Bastille, Paris) and The Girl from the West (Stockholm).
Among the awards and titles of Nina Stemme are the title of Court Singer of the Swedish Royal Court, membership in the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, the honorary title of Kammersängerin (Chamber Singer) of the Vienna State Opera, the Medal of Literature and Arts (Litteris et Artibus) of His Majesty the King of Sweden, the Olivier Prize for performance in “Tristan and Isolde” on the stage of London’s Covent Garden.
In the further creative plans of the singer – participation in the productions of “Turandot” (Stockholm), “Girl from the West” (Vienna and Paris), “Salome” (Cleveland, Carnegie Hall, London and Zurich), “Ring of the Nibelung” (Munich, Vienna and La Scala Theatre), as well as recitals in Berlin, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Salzburg and Oslo.
Source: Mariinsky Theater website