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| | Norberg-Schulz Elizabeth | | soprano |   
Born in Oslo from Italian mother and Norwegian father, she studied in Rome at the conservatory of S.Cecilia where she took her singing diploma. Later she studied with Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Hans Hotter and Peter Pears. After winning many competitions like the Mozart Wettbewerb in Salzburg, the Spoleto competition and the international singing competition of the Bavarian Radio in Munich, she started a big international career as concert and opera singer.She is regularly invited by the most important operahouses and festivals in the whole world as Teatro alla Scala (where with Riccardo Muti she has sung as Susanna in Nozze di Figaro, Nannetta in Falstaff, Constance in Dialoges of Carmelites, Vannella in Lu Frate Innamurato, Jemmy in Guglielmo Tell. With other conductors she has appeard as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Adina in Elisir d'Amore, The Swan in Zar Saltan, Elena in Cappello di Paglia di Firenze; conductor Bruno Campanella), Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Carlo Felice di Bologna (Liù in Tourandot, Despina in Così Fan Tutte, Corinna in Viaggio a Reims, Pamina in Zauberfloete, all with Daniele Gatti), Teatro Comunale di Firenze e Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Egmont of Beethoven with Chung, Musetta in la Boheme with Bychkov, Asteria in Tamerlano with Bolton, Beethoven 9° with Sinopoli) Teatro Massimo of Palermo (Giulietta in Capuleti with Daniele Callegari),Teatro Regio of Torino (Saint John Passion of Bach with Rousset), Teatro San Carlo of Napoli (Norina in Don Pasquale with Abbado), Teatro Carlo Felice of Genova, Teatro La Fenice of Venice, Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro (Corinna in Viaggio a Reims, La petite Messe Solemnelle with Gatti, Anais in Moise with Jurowsky, Jemmy in Guillome Tell with Gelmetti, Giulia in La scala di seta with Zedda) Festival of two Worlds of Spoleto, Festival of Macerata, Festival of Salzburg, Festival of Montreux, Festival Beethoven in Bonn, Festival Haendel in Halle, Festival of Glyndebourne, Staatsoper in Vienna,(where she has sung parts like Gilda Rigoletto, Lucia, Manon, Musetta in La Boheme, Adina in Elisir with Pavarotti, Ilia in Idomeneo, Oscar in Ballo in Maschera , Pamina, Susanna, Zerlina, Nannetta ecc.) Lyric Opera of Chicago ( Pamina with Janowsky ), Covent Garden of London (Liù with Daniele Gatti), Opéra Bastille (Micaela in Carmen), Théatre des Champs Elysées in Paris, The opera in Geneve, Teatro Real of Madrid, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munic (Norina in Don Pasquale with Abbado), The Norwegian Opera as Lucia and Gilda, Theatre de La Monnai, Metropolitan Opera House of New York (Oscar in Ballo with Mark Elder, Adele in Die FlederMaus, Valencienne in The Merry Widow with Domingo and the 2000 New Year concert gala). Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz has also sung with the principal orchestras in the world as Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Accademia di S. Cecilia, Berliner Philharmoniker (Requiem fur Mignon of Schumann and Brahms Requiem with Abbado), Wiener Philharmoniker (C-minor mass of Mozart with Solti that she also has recorded for DECCA, Brahms Requiem with Abbado) I Filarmonici della Scala (Mozart Requiem with Muti for the Mozart year 1991 and with Gergiev in Bologna), Dresdner Staatskapelle (Beethoven 9°, Strauss Lieder, and Mozart Requiem all with Sinopoli), Munchener Philharmonic (Salve Regina of Pergolesi with Abbado and Clarières dans le Ciel of Lily Boulanger with Marcello Viotti), Bayerischer Rundfunk (Mahler 8° and a recording for BMG of Fidelio ; Marcelline both with Sir Colin Davies), the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (Mahler 4° with Sinopoli, Arias of opera and Lieder for orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (Mahler 4°, Sieben Fruhe Lieder of Berg, Atlantide of De Falla, Brahms Requiem with A. Ceccato), New York Philharmonic (Le Martyr de Saint Sebastien with Kurt Masur), Chicago Symphony Orchestra (The Creation of Haydn with Solti), San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (Brahms Requiem with Blomstedt that has also been recorded for DECCA), Boston Symphony Orchestra (L'Enfant et Le Sortilege with Osawa), Orchestre de Paris (Mahler 2° and Beethoven 9° with Bychkow)............We ave here just remembered some of the important concerts and parts Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz has sung, but from her engagements we can see that she has been working with the most important conductors in the world: Boris Gudonov with Abbado in Salzburg, La Clemenza di Tito with Muti, and Die Frau Ohne Schatten and Falstaff with Solti also in Salzburg (Falstaff has been recorded for DECCA), Un Ballo in Maschera and Tourandot with Gatti in Chicago and CoventGarden, Die Zauberflote with Janowsky in Chicago (Die Zauberfloete has been recorded for Naxos), Falstaff with Osawa in Vienna, Idomeneo with Colin Davies, Guillome Tell with Chailly and Muti in La Scala, Oscar in Ballo in Maschera with Pappano. Let us also remember the tours with La Scala in Japan conducted by Carlos Kleiber in Boheme, by Muti in Falstaff and by Lorin Mazel in Tourandot, and the Japan tour of l'Orchestre de Paris with Bychov.Among her latest engagements we can point out Der Rosenkavalier of Strauss at The Metropolitan Opera of New York, The Zauberflote and Falstaff at Teatro Real of Madrid, Tamerlano of Haendel with Trewor Pinnok and The English Concert in Halle, London and Paris (it has been made a live recording and a DVD of this Tamerlano), Adina in Elisir and Zerlina in Don Giovanni both in Rome and in San Carlo of Napoli, Haensel and Gretel as Gretel in Chicago conducted by Mark Elder, her debut as Mimì in La Boheme in the Norwegian Opera, The Oslo Symphony Orchestra; New Year Concert with Manfred Honeck, Mozart Requiem with Temirkanov in Rome with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra as the final concert in the old auditorium, Der Wein and Mahler 4° with Jeffrey Tate and the Orchestra Nazionale of RAI.Her engagements for the next future will take her to Bologna with Daniele Gatti in Brahms Requiem,to the Megaron in Athens as Liù in Tourandot, in Glyndebourne as Mimì in La Boheme, in the Rome Opera and Oslo Opera as Micaela in Carmen, in Paris Theatre des Champs Elysées, with Haendels Xerses conducted by William Christie (there will bee made a CD recording live of the opera), as Elena in Cappello di Paglia di Firenze in Torino with Bruno Campanella and as Gilda with Leo Nucci as Rigoletto in Bologna conducted by Gatti. She has also worked with the major stage directors as Ronconi, Strehler, Pizzi, Miller, Wieck, De Simone, Zeffirelli, Goetz Friedrich, Ugo De Hana, Proietti, Martone, Richard Jones...... Her recordings are with companies as PHILIPS, DECCA , EMI RICORDI, BMG and others. Her recording of Lieder of Grieg got the Grieg Award from the Grieg Academy in Bergen and her recording of Brahms Requiem got the GRAMMY AWARD. She appears often in Lieder Abender with acompanists as Irwin Gage and Silvia Cappellini Sinopoli. She will receive on 16th June in Rome the prize Minerva 2003 for art, science and communication.
RECORDINGS: G.B. Pergolesi, Vannella/Lo frate 'nnamorato, dir. R. Muti - Ricordi, - (anche inVHS e DVD)-W.A. Mozart, Messa in do minore, dir. G. Solti - DECCA - Grieg, Lieder con pianoforte, pianista Håvard Gimse - VNP - Duetti di Schuman, Brahms,Fauré,Massenet con Monica Bacelli mezzo sopr. pianista Irwin Gage - VNP - Pergolesi, Stabat Mater, BMG Classics - Verdi, Nannetta/Falstaff, dir.G.Solti - DECCA - Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem, dir. H. Blomsted - DECCA - Beethoven, Marzelline/Fidelio, dir.C.Davis - BMG Classics - Mahler, VIII Sinfonia (Mater Gloriosa), dir.C.Davis - BMG Classics - Verdi, Tebaldo/Don Carlo, dir. B. Haitink-Philips - Mozart,Pamina/Zauberfloete, dir. Halasc- Naxos - Rossini, Anai/Moise et Pharaon, dir. W. Jurowsky - ROF - Debussy, Le Martyr de Saint Sebastien, dir. K. Masur - NYPO - Weinacht, canti di Natale - BMG Classics - Canti di Natale - KKV - "Miracoli Italiani" - KKV - "Ave Maria ", tre CD di canti da camera su testo religioso dei piu grandi compositori del 1800-1900, pianista, Gian Franco Plenizio - "La Nave Va" / Federico Fellini, colonna sonora del film. Musiche di G.F.Plenizio - Haendel, Asteria/ Tamerlano, the English Concert, dir. Trevor Pinnock. |
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