Lisa Larsson
Lisa Larsson (born February 14, 1967 in Växjö församling , Kronobergs län ) is a Swedish opera singer (soprano).
Life
Larsson began her musical career as a concert flutist before studying singing in Basel . From 1993 to 1995 she performed in the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House under Franz Welser-Möst , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Christoph von Dohnanyi and others.
In the 1995/1996 season she appeared in the role of Papagena in Mozart's Magic Flute under Riccardo Muti at La Scala in Milan . In the same season she also appeared in the Zurich Opera, the Opéra de Lausanne and the Komische Oper Berlin , sang Adele from Strauss ' Die Fledermaus at the Ludwigsburg Festival and was in Bizet's Carmen and Verdi's Don Carlos under Ralf at the Hamburg Opera Weeks Weikert to hear.
In 1996/1997 Larsson was a member of the Basel Opera as Amor in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice , as Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and as Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera . The following year she made her debut at Det Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen and sang Xenia from Mussorgski's Boris Godunow under Claudio Abbado at the 1998 Salzburg Easter Festival . In the next few years she appeared at the festivals of Aix-en-Provence and Montreux and the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and had engagements at the Det Kongelige Teater, the La Monnaie and the Opéra de Nancy .
As an oratorio singers Larsson among others worked with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic , the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Nicholas McGegan , the orchestra Tonhalle Zurich under Christopher Hogwood , Claus Peter Flor and Ton Koopman , the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir under Ton Koopman, with John Eliot Gardiner at festivals in Strasbourg, St. Denis and Aldeburgh , with Peter Schreier in Copenhagen and with Martin Haselböck in Vienna.
Larsson recorded the Christmas Oratorio , the Magnificat and several cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach under Ton Koopman and Robert Schumann's Manfred under Mario Venzago on CD .
In 2020 Larsson was awarded the royal cultural order Litteris et Artibus .
Web links
- Works by and about Lisa Larsson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lisa Larsson at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Lisa Larsson at Bach Cantatas (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sveriges befolkning 1970, CD-ROM, Version 1.04, Sveriges Släktforskarförbund (2002).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Larsson, Lisa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish classical singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Växjö församling , Kronobergs län |