EVA-MARIA WESTBROEK

The Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek studied singing at the Conservatory in The Hague, followed by master-classes with James McCay. She was a prize-winner in the First Rome International Competition, and the Angelica Catalani and Santa Maria Ligure Competitions. She made her début at the Aldeburgh Festival as Mother Maria in Poulenc’s Les dialogues des carmélites. This was followed by guest engagements at the National Theatre in Novi Sad, in Skopje, in Riga, at the Teatro Manzoni in Rome and, as Elisabeth in Don Carlos, at the Komische Oper in Berlin, where she also won great success as Chrysothemis in Elektra, earning her the title ‘Singer of the Year 2001’. Since that season she has been a member of the Stuttgart Staatsoper, where she won particular success in her début as Tosca and as Carlotta in Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten. Guest engagements have taken her to the Bregenz Festival, to Tokyo, Salzburg and the Semperoper in Dresden. In 2004 she made her début at the Paris Opéra-Bastille as Madame Lidoine in Les dialogues des carmélites, returning in 2005 to the same house as Chrysothemis in Elektra. Performances in The Netherlands have included Maddalena in Andrea Chénier at the Concertgebouw and Marguerite in La damnation de Faust under Valery Gergiev with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. She sang the title rôle in Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District with the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam, and made her début at Covent Garden in the same rôle. She returned there to repeat her successes as Sieglinde in Die Walküre under Simon Rattle at the Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg Easter Festivals.

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