Cecilia Hjortsberg
Encyclopedia
Cecilia Hjortsberg is a Swedish opera singer (soprano
), born 1973.
Education:
Opera Roles:
Employment at The Royal Theatre
, Copenhagen
since 2005. Previous employment at Malmö Opera and Music Theatre
, where she has contributed in Miss Saigon
, Otello
, Turandot
, La Bohème
and Faust
.
Contributed in Don Giovanni
by Skånska Operan as Donna Anna, 2005.
Soprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
), born 1973.
Education:
- The Royal College of Music of Stockholm, Chamber music program
- The Opera studio at the Gothenburg OperaGothenburg OperaThe Gothenburg Opera, , is an opera house in Gothenburg, Sweden. In marketing, the name is often spelled as "GöteborgsOperan", which however is not grammatically correct.- History :...
Opera Roles:
- Starring role as the witch in Hans och Greta
- Isis in Naumanns Osiris, production by the Malmö lyrical ensemble
- Donna Anna in Mozarts Don Giovanni, production by the Opera of Skåne
- Georgetta in Puccinis Il tabarro, production by the Opera i Provinsen
- Desdemona in Verdis Othello, Production by the Opera i Provinsen, performed at Takkeloftet at The Royal Danish Opera
- Second Water nymph in Dvořák's Rusalka, production by the Royal Danish Opera
- Voice from above in Don Carlos, production by the Royal Danish Opera
- Cover for the role "Stövlet-katrine" in Bo Holten's Livläkarens Besök
- Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte
- Emperor Augustus in Tiberius prövningar
Employment at The Royal Theatre
The Royal Theatre
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, Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
since 2005. Previous employment at Malmö Opera and Music Theatre
Malmö Opera and Music Theatre
Malmö Opera and Music Theatre is an opera house in Malmö, Sweden. An opera company of the same name presents seasons of opera in this house....
, where she has contributed in Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover...
, Otello
Otello
Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's penultimate opera, and was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on February 5, 1887....
, Turandot
Turandot
Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni.Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text Turandot...
, La Bohème
La bohème
La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadro, a tableau or "image", rather than atto . by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger...
and Faust
Faust (opera)
Faust is a drame lyrique in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part 1...
.
Contributed in Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787...
by Skånska Operan as Donna Anna, 2005.
Sources
- Ohlsson, Matilda, Operasångerska som gillar hårdrock, Blekinge Läns Tidning, 30 December 2009
- Söderbom, Emma, Cecilia från Karlskrona bor mitt i gängkriget, Sydöstran, 5 March 2009