Iréne Theorin
Swedish soprano Iréne Theorin studied in Gotheburg and Copenhagen. Among her teachers were Susanna Eken, Birgit Nilsson, Ingrid Bjoner and Oren Brown.Scholarships made it possible for the artist to work with Geoffrey Parsons, Anthony Rolfe Johnson and Dame Janet Baker.
She made her stage debut as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at the Royal Opera Copenhagen, where she could be heard in many parts in the following years, e.g. as Giuseppe Verdi’s Leonora (La forza del destino), Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), Elisabetta (Don Carlo), Desdemona (Otello) and Aida; Richard Wagner’s Elsa (Lohengrin), Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Senta (Der fliegende Holländer) and Sieglinde (Die Walküre) as well as Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca. She sang Nedda (Pagliacci) and Freia (Das Rheingold) at the Royal Opera Stockholm; Iréne Theorin made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2000 as Ortlinde (Die Walküre), at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2001 as Meroe in Othmar Schoeck’s Penthesilea.
In 2005 she sang fort he first time Turandot in Copenhagen, a role that has since become one of her greatest and which she has sung in Tokyo, Dresden, London, Tel Aviv (with Zubin Mehta) and Guangzhou (with Lorin Maazel). More performances are scheduled to take place in San Francisco, Munich, New York and London. She was Brünnhilde in the complete cycle of Ring des Nibelungen in Copenhagen, Cologne, Dresden as well as in Berlin (Walküre), London (Siegfried), New York (Walküre, Siegfried), Washington and Tokyo (Siegfried, Götterdämmerung):
“I hate to re-use adjectives in an article, but no less “awesome” is the Brünnhilde of Iréne Theorin. This lady is spectacular! She has the type of voice that raises the hair on the back of your neck. It is a powerful and beautiful instrument possessing a shining, silvery color, and it has a thrusting edge of steel. This vocal quality, coupled with her intense and probing characterization, make her a superior Brünnhilde. Ms. Théorin seems to never run out of steam, while Wagner makes constant demands on the extremities of the voice in this part. Among her finest moments is Brünnhilde’s scene with her Valkyrie sister Waltraute, who comes to tell of impending doom. Ms. Théorin is a tough colleague to match.” Concerto Net
Iréne Theorin is also a celebrated Isolde (Tristan und Isolde), which she has sung in Brussels, Essen, Rotterdam (with Valery Gergiev), Copenhagen and Tokyo as well as at the Bayreuth Festival since 2008. In 2009 Ms Theorin returned to Washington as Ariadne and made her debut as Elektra at the Salzburg Festival in 2010, which was released on DVD at Arthaus in 2011. She can also been seen on a prize-winning DVD of the Copenhagen RING released by Decca. For her portrayal of Brünnhilde Iréne Theorin received great acclaim from the critics.
Further engagements include: Brünnhilde in the RING with Daniel Barenboim (Berlin, Milano), Venus (Vienna), Elektra (London, Paris) as well as Brünnhilde (Walküre, Siegfried) in Barcelona.
Iréne Theorin is also a much sought after concert singer who has worked with important conductors such as Roberto Abbado, Gerd Albrecht, Christoph Eschenbach, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Daniele Gatti, Sir Edward Jones, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Andris Nelsons, Gianandrea Noseda, Kazushi Ono Peter Schneider or Marcello Viotti.
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She made her stage debut as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at the Royal Opera Copenhagen, where she could be heard in many parts in the following years, e.g. as Giuseppe Verdi’s Leonora (La forza del destino), Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), Elisabetta (Don Carlo), Desdemona (Otello) and Aida; Richard Wagner’s Elsa (Lohengrin), Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Senta (Der fliegende Holländer) and Sieglinde (Die Walküre) as well as Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca. She sang Nedda (Pagliacci) and Freia (Das Rheingold) at the Royal Opera Stockholm; Iréne Theorin made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2000 as Ortlinde (Die Walküre), at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2001 as Meroe in Othmar Schoeck’s Penthesilea.
In 2005 she sang fort he first time Turandot in Copenhagen, a role that has since become one of her greatest and which she has sung in Tokyo, Dresden, London, Tel Aviv (with Zubin Mehta) and Guangzhou (with Lorin Maazel). More performances are scheduled to take place in San Francisco, Munich, New York and London. She was Brünnhilde in the complete cycle of Ring des Nibelungen in Copenhagen, Cologne, Dresden as well as in Berlin (Walküre), London (Siegfried), New York (Walküre, Siegfried), Washington and Tokyo (Siegfried, Götterdämmerung):
“I hate to re-use adjectives in an article, but no less “awesome” is the Brünnhilde of Iréne Theorin. This lady is spectacular! She has the type of voice that raises the hair on the back of your neck. It is a powerful and beautiful instrument possessing a shining, silvery color, and it has a thrusting edge of steel. This vocal quality, coupled with her intense and probing characterization, make her a superior Brünnhilde. Ms. Théorin seems to never run out of steam, while Wagner makes constant demands on the extremities of the voice in this part. Among her finest moments is Brünnhilde’s scene with her Valkyrie sister Waltraute, who comes to tell of impending doom. Ms. Théorin is a tough colleague to match.” Concerto Net
Iréne Theorin is also a celebrated Isolde (Tristan und Isolde), which she has sung in Brussels, Essen, Rotterdam (with Valery Gergiev), Copenhagen and Tokyo as well as at the Bayreuth Festival since 2008. In 2009 Ms Theorin returned to Washington as Ariadne and made her debut as Elektra at the Salzburg Festival in 2010, which was released on DVD at Arthaus in 2011. She can also been seen on a prize-winning DVD of the Copenhagen RING released by Decca. For her portrayal of Brünnhilde Iréne Theorin received great acclaim from the critics.
Further engagements include: Brünnhilde in the RING with Daniel Barenboim (Berlin, Milano), Venus (Vienna), Elektra (London, Paris) as well as Brünnhilde (Walküre, Siegfried) in Barcelona.
Iréne Theorin is also a much sought after concert singer who has worked with important conductors such as Roberto Abbado, Gerd Albrecht, Christoph Eschenbach, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Daniele Gatti, Sir Edward Jones, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Andris Nelsons, Gianandrea Noseda, Kazushi Ono Peter Schneider or Marcello Viotti.
www.irenetheorin.com
