Eva Lind

Eva Lind (born 14 June 1966) is an Austrian soprano who has an active career in operas, concerts, recitals, and TV programs.

Eva Lind
Eva Lind at the Bayreuth Festival 2019
Born (1966-06-14) 14 June 1966
Innsbruck, Austria
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
OccupationSoprano singer
Years active1985–present
Websitewww.eva-lind.at

Andrew Lamb in Gramophone described her voice as "sheer delight, fresh, crisp, clear, beautifully agile and with superb trills."[1]

Career

Lind was born in Innsbruck. She began her vocal training at the Tyrol State Conservatory in her native city, and won the Austrian competition Jugend musiziert in 1983. In the same year, she debuted as Flowermaiden in Wagner's Parsifal at the Tyrolean State Theatre. While studying philosophy, journalism and theatre studies at the University of Vienna she continued her professional training as a singer. Her teachers were Marta Lantieri, Ruthilde Boesch and Wilma Lipp.

In 1985, at the age of 19, she made her professional debut as Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Vienna State Opera, where she was engaged as a ensemble member in roles such as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Sophie in Massenet's Werther.[2] She made her international career when she starred in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in the 1985/86 season at the Theater Basel. In 1986, she debuted at the Salzburg Festival as Italian Singer in Capriccio. In 1987, she debuted at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in a new production of The Magic Flute.[3] In 1988, she appeared for the first time at the Royal Albert Hall and the Glyndebourne Festival as Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff conducted by Bernard Haitink. In 1991, she debuted in the role of Gilda (Rigoletto) alongside Alfredo Kraus at the Teatro de la Maestranza, and in 1996, in Violetta (La traviata) at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden. In 1997, she performed the Woodbird in Wagner's Siegfried at La Scala in Milan,[4] and in 1998, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera at the Arena di Verona Festival.

Eva Lind in New York for her concert at Carnegie Hall 2007

She also made guest appearances at major venues in Berlin (Berlin State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berliner Philharmonie), Munich (Bavarian State Opera, Philharmonie am Gasteig, Herkulessaal, Cuvilliés Theatre), London (Royal Festival Hall), Madrid (Teatro de la Zarzuela), Zurich (Tonhalle, Zürich Opera House), Amsterdam (Opera House), Stockholm (Royal Swedish Opera), Buenos Aires (Teatro Colón), Mexico City, Tokyo (Suntory Hall, Tokyo Opera City), Osaka (Symphony Hall) and Shanghai Opera House.

She has worked with conductors Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Colin Davis, Kurt Masur, René Jacobs, André Previn and Yehudi Menuhin.

Lind appears extensively on stage performing soprano roles like Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Amina (La sonnambula), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) and many more.

She went on a concert tour through Japan with members of the Vienna Philharmonic in January 2010 and has given a solo recital at Milan's Teatro Dal Verme on 5 May 2010. In July 2010, she sang Gilda in Rigoletto (with Leo Nucci as Rigoletto) at the Opera Festival in Solothurn. From 27 December 2010, until 6 January 2011, she toured China (Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Dalian, Hangzhou, Changsha, Meizhou) together with the Berliner Symphoniker.[5]

Eva Lind as Nedda in the opera I Pagliacci 2012

Lind sang her first Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci in July 2012 at the Schlossfestspiele Schwerin.[6][7]

In March/April 2014 she performed in China (Shanghai, Chongqing, Dalian, Xuzhou, Nanning and Nanchang) on a tour with solo recitals together with Chinese pianist Xin Sui.[8]

Eva Lind regularly appears on German TV where she hosts various music programs.[9] From 2003 to the program's end in 2008, she co-hosted ARD's Saturday night music program Straße der Lieder with choral conductor Gotthilf Fischer.[10][11]

Discography

Solorecitals

  • Frühlingsstimmen– Wiener Volksopernorchester, Franz Bauer-Theussl (Philips, 1986)
  • Coloratura Arias – Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Heinz Wallberg (Philips, 1988)
  • Operatic Duets (with Francisco Araiza), Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Ralf Weikert (Philips, 1990)
  • Ich bin verliebt – Accademia di Montegridolfo, Gustav Kuhn (BMG, 1996)
  • My Romance (with José Carreras), The London Musicians Orchestra, David Giménez Carreras (Erato, 1997)
  • Lieder, die zu Herzen geh'n – Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, Erich Becht (Koch Classics, 2000)
  • Sentimento – Philharmonic Orchestra München, Herrmann Weindorf (Koch Universal, 2001)
  • Wunder gescheh'n – Philharmonic Orchestra München, Herrmann Weindorf (Koch Universal, 2003)
  • Ich will leben – Kölner Symphonisches Orchester, Erich Becht (Hänssler Classic, 2005)
  • Mozart rennt – Das Rennquintett (Bayer Records, 2006)
  • Die große Operettengala (with Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Thomas Hampson: Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Marcello Viotti (Sony Classical, 2007)
  • Stille Nacht – Kölner Symphonisches Orchester, Erich Becht (Sony BMG 2006)
  • Magic Moments (with Tobey Wilson), Philharmonic Orchestra München, Herrmann Weindorf (Seven Days Music, 2008)
  • Eva Lind – Ihre grössten Erfolge aus 'Straße der Lieder' (Koch Universal, 2008)
  • Eva Lind - Bijoux (Solo Musica, 2014)
  • Regenbogenfarben (ABAKUS Musik, 2015)
  • Die Symphonie des Lebens (NAXOS, 2018)

Complete opera recordings

Symphonic works, oratorios

DVDs

Bibliography
  • "Eva Lind" in Großes Sängerlexikon, Karl J. Kutsch & Leo Riemens. Bern, Munich: Saur (ISBN 3-598-11419-2), 3rd edition, 1999, volume 3, p. 2075.

References
  1. Lamb, Andrew. "Vienna Première, Vol. 2 - Review". Gramophone. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  2. Vorstellungen mit Eva Lind, Wiener Staatsoper
  3. ""La Flûte enchantée" au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées L'orchestre sur la scène". Le Monde (in French). 1987-10-16. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  4. "Sigfrido alla Scala un Wagner "democristiano"". Corriere della Sera. 1997-04-03.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-25. Retrieved 2014-09-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. Nellissen, Monika (2012-06-11). ""Der Bajazzo" als Joint Venture mit Roncalli". Die Welt.
  7. "Roncallis neuer Theater-Flirt: "Der Bajazzo" in Schwerin". FOCUS. dpa. 2012-06-14.
  8. http://www.bmeia.gv.at/cn/botschaft/gk-shanghai/aktuelles/veranstaltungskalender/2014/liederabend-eva-lind.html
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-01-06. Retrieved 2014-04-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. "Das Erste: Eva Lind neue Co-Moderatorin bei "Strasse der Lieder"" (Press release). Südwestrundfunk. 2003-03-20 – via Presseportal.
  11. ""Straße der Lieder" vor dem Aus". Rheinische Post. 2007-10-14.
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