Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz - soprano
The Norwegian/Italian soprano Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz is regularly invited to the world’s most important opera houses, festivals and orchestras. She has worked with many distinguished conductors including Muti, Abbado, Gatti, Campanella, Chung, Bychkov, Sinopoli, Solti, Gergiev, Davies, Jansons, Masur, Blomstedt, Osawa, Chailly, Pappano, Kleiber, Mazel, and Tate.
Her distinguished opera career includes many performances in Italy at Teatro alla Scala, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Carlo Felice de Bologna, Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, and La Fenice. Elsewhere she has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Opéra Bastille, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, La Monnaie, Teatro Real di Madrid, Opéra de Genève, Bayerisches Staatsoper, Vienna Staatsoper and The Norwegian Opera. With La Scala she has toured to Japan in La Bohème under Carlos Kleiber, Falstaff under Riccardo Muti, and Turandot under Lorin Mazel. Her principal roles include Pamina (Chicago, Madrid, Salzburg, Vienna, Bologna), Susanna (Milano, Vienna), Zerlina (Rome, Napoli, Vienna), Asteria Tamerlano (Firenze, Halle, London, Paris), Adina (Milano, Rome, Napoli, Vienna), Lucia (Vienna, Spoleto, Oslo), Norina (Munich, Hamburg, Macerata, Napoli), Nannetta (Milano, Salzburg, Vienna, Madrid), Gilda (Vienna, Spoleto, Palermo, Treviso, Oslo), Oscar (Met, Chicago, Vienna, Oslo), Micaëla (Bastille, Rome, Oslo), Liù (Covent Garden, Athens, Bologna), Mimì (Glyndebourne, Oslo), Musetta (Firenze, Vienna), Adele Die Fledermaus (Met), Gretel (Chicago), Constance Dialogues des Carmélites (Milano), Manon ( Vienna ).
Her festival appearances include the Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro where she has sung Corinna Viaggio a Riems, Anais Moise, Jemmy Guilielomo Tell and Giulia La scala di seta, Salzburg, Montreux, Spoleto, Macerata, the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, and the Handel Festival in Halle.
Her many concert appearances include the Berlin Philharmonic (Schumann Requiem für Mignon and Brahms Requiem with Abbado), Vienna Philharmonic (Mozart Mass in C minor with Solti, Brahms Requiem with Abbado), I Filarmonici della Scala (Mozart Requiem with Muti, and with Gergiev), Orchestra Nazionale di RAI (Mahler 4° and Der Wein with Tate), Dresden Staatskapelle (Beethoven 9° , Strauss Lieder and Mozart Requiem all with Sinopoli), Munich Philharmonic (Pergolesi Salve Regina with Abbado and Lily Boulanger Clarières dans le Ciel with Viotti), Bayersicher Rundfunk (Mahler 8° with Sir Colin Davies), Oslo Philharmonic (Mahler 4° with Sinopoli, opera recital with Jansons), Bergen Philharmonic (Mahler 4° , Berg Sieben Furhe Lieder, De Falla Atlantide, Brahms Requiem with Ceccato), New York Philharmonic (Debussy Le Martyr de Saint Sebastien with Masur), Chicago Symphony (Haydn Creation with Solti), San Francisco Symphony (Brahms Requiem with Blomstedt), Boston Symphony (L’Enfant et les Sortilèges with Osawa), Orchestre de Paris (Mahler 2° and Beethoven 9° with Bychkow).
She has recorded for Philips, Decca, EMI, Ricordi and BMG including Mozart Mass in C minor, Nannetta Falstaff with Solti, Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem with Blomstedt that got the Grammy Award, Marzelline Fidelio and Mahler 8° with Sir Colin Davies, Tebaldo Don Carlos with Haitink and Asteria Tamerlano with Pinnock. She has also recorded a recital disc of songs by Grieg with the pianist Håvard Gims which received the Grieg Award.
Recent and future engagements include Atalanta Xerses at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées under William Christie, Elena Cappello di Paglia di Firenze in Torino, Gilda in Bologna with Gatti, Adina in Cagliari and Norina in Oslo.