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Ingela Brimberg

Soprano

  • Celebrated Swedish soprano Ingela Brimberg has collaborated with some of the world’s finest conductors, including Marc Minkowski, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Daniel Harding, Francois-Xavier Roth, Leif Segerstam, Sakari Oramo and Pablo Heras-Casado, and is renowned for her interpretations of the most complex and demanding of opera’s dramatic soprano heroines.

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  • During the 2024/25 season, Brimberg returns to La Monnaie as Brünnhilde Siegfried and Götterdämmerung to complete the new Ring Cycle conducted by music director Alain Altinoglu, and to the Royal Swedish Opera as Brünnhilde Die Walküre. Last season, she sang Brünnhilde Die Walküre at La Monnaie, the title role Elektra in Stockholm and made her role debut as Katerina Ismailowa Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk for Oper Leipzig.


    Other recent highlights include: title roles Elektra and Turandot in Geneva; title role Turandot at the Teatro Regio Turin; Brünnhilde Siegfried for Göteborg Opera; her first Isolde Tristan und Isolde in a new production for Oper Köln; Eva in Sebastian Fagerlund’s new opera Höstsonaten for Finnish National Opera; Senta and Leonore Fidelio at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Senta at Theater an der Wien, Oper Köln, Staatsoper Hamburg, Teatro Real Madrid and in concert with Minkowski (recorded by Naïve); Brünnhilde Die Walküre for Teatro Real Madrid; Brünnhilde and Elektra for Opéra National de Bordeaux; title role Salomé for Oper Köln (new Ted Huffman production), Teatro Verdi Trieste and Göteborg Opera; Elsa Lohengrin at La Monnaie; title role Tosca for Oper Köln, Göteborg Opera and Finnish National Opera; title role Aida for Malmö Opera.


    Ingela Brimberg made her La Monnaie debut performing Valentine in a production of Les Huguenots that was conducted by Marc Minkowski and named the best production of year 2011 in Opernwelt, after which she debuted for Royal Swedish Opera as Ellen Orford Peter Grimes in during the spring of 2013. She also sang Konstanze Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Amelia Un ballo in Maschera and Donna Anna Don Giovanni with Folkoperan Stockholm, the title roles of Jenufa (NorrlandsOperan) and Katja Kabanova (Göteborg Opera), Elettra Idomeneo for the Opéra de Lyon and Göteborg Opera, Lady Macbeth in Verdi Macbeth for Toulon Opera, Elektra in a spectacular production by La Fura dels Baus in Umeå (European Capital of Culture), released on DVD (Unitel Classica) and the title role Manon Lescaut for the Danish National Opera. She has appeared in concert with the Orchestre National de Lille (Vier Letzte Lieder), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Verbier Festival, Opéra de Rouen Normandie and Trondheim Symphony Orchestra.

    2024/25 season / 409 words. Not to be altered without permission.

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Opera repertoire

Beethoven
Leonore Fidelio


Puccini
Title role Turandot


R. Strauss
Die Färberin Die Frau ohne Schatten*
Title role Elektra
Title role Salome


Verdi
Lady Macbeth Macbeth


Wagner
Senta Der fliegende Holländer
Brünnhilde Der Ring des Nibelungen
Isolde Tristan und Isolde


*role in preperation

Concert repertoire

Beethoven
Symphony No.9


Berg
Alternberg Lieder 


Britten
War Requiem


Eliasson
Dante Anarca


Janáček
Glagolitic Mass


Mahler
Symphony No.8


Schoenberg
Gurre-Lieder


Strauss, R.
Vier letzte Lieder


Vaughan Williams
Sea Symphony


Verdi
Requiem


Wagner
Wesendonck Lieder

"The Brünnhilde of Ingela Brimberg overshadows all others. In her final scene she fascinates with vocal and theatrical intensity."

Place de l'Opéra

her Salome is as vocal as it is expressive, right up to the grand final monologue.

Generall Anzeiger Bonn

Great is the role debut of Ingela Brimberg as Isolde. Her voice is like a vibrating beam, energetic and agile at the same time.

Frankfurter Allgemeine

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Julia Maynard
Director / Vocal & Opera
+44 20 7608 9902
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Isabella Gage
Senior Artist Manager
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Jonathan Turnbull
Associate Artist Manager, Vocal & Opera
+44 20 7608 9907
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All artists

Chansonnier

HK Gruber

Counter-tenor

Tim Mead

Harpsichord

Richard Egarr

Piano accompanist

Roger Vignoles

Saxophone

Jess Gillam

Contralto

Avery Amereau