Iréne Theorin

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Lena Iréne Sofia Theorin (born June 18, 1963 in Södra Hestra , Gislaved municipality ) is a Swedish opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Iréne Theorin studied at the University of Music and Opera School in Copenhagen , and for a short time at the Operahögskolan in Gothenburg . In 1998 she was the only musician to receive the Danish Léonie Sonning scholarship. Her teachers included Susanna Eken, Birgit Nilsson, Ingrid Bjoner and Oren Brown. Numerous grants have enabled the artist to work with Geoffrey Parsons, Anthony Rolfe Johnson and Dame Janet Baker.

She made her stage debut in 1996 as Donna Anna ( Don Giovanni ) at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen, where she has since performed in many roles, including Verdi's Leonora ( La forza del destino ), Amelia ( Un ballo in maschera ), Elisabetta ( Don Carlo ), Desdemona ( Otello ) and Aida , Wagner's Elsa ( Lohengrin ), Eva ( Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ), Senta ( The Flying Dutchman ) and Sieglinde ( Die Walküre ) as well as Puccini's Tosca. At the Royal Opera in Stockholm she was a guest as Nedda ( Pagliacci ) and Freia ( Das Rheingold ) ; She made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2000 as Ortlinde (Die Walküre) under the direction of Giuseppe Sinopoli in the direction of Jürgen Flimm , and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2001 as Meroe in Othmar Schoeck's Penthesilea .

In 2005 Iréne Theorin made her role debut as Turandot in Copenhagen; since then she has sung this role in Tokyo, Dresden, London, Tel Aviv (under Zubin Mehta ), Guangzhou (under Lorin Maazel ) and in the Roman Caracalla Baths (in a production by Denis Krief ).

She embodied Brünnhilde in the complete Ring of the Nibelung in Copenhagen, Cologne and Dresden; She also sang Brünnhilde in Berlin (Die Walküre), London and Barcelona ( Siegfried ), New York (Die Walküre, Siegfried), in Washington and Tokyo (Siegfried, Götterdämmerung ). She sang Isolde ( Tristan und Isolde ) in Brussels, Essen, Rotterdam (under Valery Gergiev ), in Copenhagen and with great success at the Bayreuth Festival between 2008 and 2012. In Washington, Iréne Theorin was in the title role in 2009 in Ariadne auf Naxos to listen.

In summer 2010 she made her debut as Elektra at the Salzburg Festival. In 2010/11 she sang Isolde in Copenhagen and Tokyo; later she sang Brünnhilde under the direction of Daniel Barenboim in the Ring des Nibelungen at the Berlin State Opera and La Scala in Milan.

Awards and honors

In 2018 Theorin was honored with the Swedish royal medal Litteris et Artibus .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sök ordens- och medaljförläningar. Royal House of Sweden, accessed September 29, 2019 (Swedish, database with the names of the owners of Litteris et Artibus since 1945).
personal data
SURNAME Theorin, Irene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theorin, Lena Iréne Sofia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Södra Hestra , Gislaved Municipality