Tina Kiberg

Tina Kiberg (soprano) trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the Opera Academy in Copenhagen. She made her debut in 1983 as Leonora in Masquerade and has since been with the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, where she has sung many lyrical and dramatic roles including Tatiana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Mimi in Puccini’s La Bohème, the Feltmarschallin in Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier, Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello, the Countess in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Elisabeth in Verdi’s Don Carlos and Ellen Orford in Britten’s Peter Grimes - just to mention a few. Tina Kiberg had her international breakthrough in 1988 as Agathe in Weber’s Der Freischütz in Geneva. As a Wagnerian she has sung among other roles Elsa in Lohengrin at the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen and in Vienna - with Placido Domingo in the title role and with Claudio Abbado as conductor - as well as in Brussels, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Zürich and Houston. In 1992 she made her Bayreuth debut as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, a role she has also sung at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. Further roles include Sieglinde in Die Walküre both in Bayreuth and at the Danish National Opera in Aarhus, and Eva in Die Meistersinger at among other opera houses the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. In 1995 she made her debut at the Metropolitan in New York, and today she sings at the world’s great opera houses and concert halls with conductors such as James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Claudio Abbado and Vladimir Ashkenazy.