Åsa Elmgren

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Åsa Elmgren (born August 13, 1966 in Lund ) is a Swedish opera singer (soprano) and actress .

Life

Elmgren trained as an actor in her home country and started working as an actress at puck theaters in Stockholm. She then moved to Austria to continue her studies at the Vienna Conservatory. Even during her studies, she sang in professional theaters. She went on long concert tours to America and Asia.

Engagements at opera houses in Austria, Germany and Switzerland followed. She was permanently involved in St. Gallen for six years. Her interpretation of the young woman in Poulenc's one-woman opera La voix humaine received international attention .

In Vienna she was a permanent member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera and has sung with Plácido Domingo , Leo Nucci , Renato Bruson , Rolando Villazón , Elīna Garanča , Anna Netrebko , Edita Gruberová and Agnes Baltsa and with conductors such as Peter Schneider , Franz Welser- Möst , Seiji Ozawa , Daniele Gatti , Sir Simon Rattle , Simone Young , Gerrit Prießnitz , Marco Armiliato and Fabio Luisi .

She has been a permanent guest soloist at the Vienna Volksoper. She has also made guest appearances in Hanover, Braunschweig, Coburg, Flensburg and Lübeck, as well as in Bern, Vaduz, Linz, Bregenz, Baden and St.Margareten.

Between 2010 and 2013, Åsa Elmgren taught, alongside her work as a soloist, acting and singing at the Sunrise Studios Conservatory in Vienna.

Since 2013 she has been living in Sweden again, where she continues to work internationally as a vocal soloist, actress and teacher.

As a director, she has staged a number of works, including Die Fledermaus (Kleines Wiener Operntheater) and An Imperial History in Austria, as well as Scheherazade , Cavalleria Rusticana, Barbiere di Siviglia, Nozze di Figaro, Carmen, Otello and Die Fledermaus in Sweden.

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Opera

operetta

Discography (selection)

  • Carmen , Naxos, 2005
  • Teofane, Premiereopera Italy, 2000

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personal data
SURNAME Elmgren, Åsa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish opera singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Lund