ITZIAR MARTINEZ GALDOS

The soprano Itziar Martinez Galdos comes from the Basque town of San Sebastián on Spain’s Atlantic Coast, but has been on the permanent staff at The Norwegian Opera in Oslo since 1989. She has portrayed many of opera’s great female rôles and is now considered one of the leading Nordic soloists. She left her homeland to study music in Stuttgart, complementing her training at the Oslo National Academy of Opera. Having spent so much time in the north, she is now better known abroad. Her career spans rôles such as Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Michaela in Carmen, Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello, Orthilde in Wagner’s Die Walküre, and Floria Tosca in Puccini’s Tosca. She is also involved with the opera in Tbilisi, Georgia.