Katarina Karnéus

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Karnéus in 2020
Katarina Karnéus as Xerxes in 2009

Katarina Esmé Marie Karnéus (born 26 November 1965) is a Swedish

King of Sweden in 2018.[1]

Life and career

Karnéus was born in Stockholm;[2] her mother is English, who after having spent 30 years in Sweden returned to England in 1987.[3]

She studied at

Cenerentola around small theatres in Wales. However, when a principal on the main company tour was taken ill she sang Rossini’s title role for them in the full staging at a few days notice.[3]

She won the

Rosina at the Opéra-Comique in Paris and Mercédès in Carmen at the Opéra Bastille.[3]

She made her debut at the

Bayerische Staatsoper singing Annio in La clemenza di Tito. She returned to Bayerische Staatsoper in 2000 for Sesto in the same opera and again in 2001 for Sesto and Dorabella in Così fan tutte.[5]
She worked with her teacher Noelle Barker in 1999 in preparation for her first Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier,[3] at Cardiff in June 2000.[6]

Karnéus' breakthrough in her native Sweden was in 2002 singing Octavian at

La Belle Hélène and Sesto in Giulio Cesare).[5][8]

Karnéus is also internationally active as a concert and recital singer. Engagements have included

Gurrelieder in Düsseldorf and Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius in Madrid and Barcelona. She has appeared regularly in recital at London's Wigmore Hall since 1995, made her New York recital debut at the Lincoln Center in 2001, and has given solo recitals in Brussels and Washington, D.C.[5][8][9] In 2010, she was a soloist at the Nobel Prize award ceremony where she performed "Amour vient rendre à mon âme" from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (Berlioz version) and "Non più mesta" from Rossini's La Cenerentola.[10]

Karnéus was engaged by

The Göteborg Opera for a five-year period starting with the 2012-2013 season.[7] In the summers of 2013 and 2014 Karnéus performed at Stålboga Summer Opera.[11] She lives in Lidingö near Stockholm, Sweden.[12]

In September 2015, she sang in the premiere of Notorious at the Göteborg Opera,[13] and in 2020 took the role of Hebé in only the second production of La ville morte by Boulanger in a concert staging also in Göteborg.[14]

In May 2021, Karnéus was one of 10 new members elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, alongside Marika Field, Richard Sparks, Jonas Knutsson, Sten Sandell, Đuro Živković, Keiko Abe, Giancarlo Andretta, Stefan Dohr, and Quincy Jones.[15]

Awards and stipends

Discography

  • Lieder. R. Strauss, Mahler, Marx. EMI Classics 7243 5 73168 2 8 [5731682].
  • Songs of Sibelius. Hyperion CDA 67318.
  • Grieg songs. Hyperion CDA67670.
  • Szymanowski, Karol: Songs of a fairy-tale princess. EMI Classics 0946 3 64435 2 2.
  • Debussy: Syrinx ; Bilitis ; La plus que lente. Ravel, Chansons madécasses (Katarina Karnéus). Prokofiev, Flute sonata. EMI 7243 5 56982 2 3 [5569822].
  • Schreker, Franz: Orchestral works. Vol. 2. Fünf Gesänge: Ur Tusen och en natt, text E. Ronsperger. Chandos CHAN 9951. Svensk mediedatabas.
  • Mahler: Orchestral songs. BIS BISSACD 1600.
  • Berlioz:
    Les Nuits d'Été & overtures Le corsaire, Le carnaval romain overture, La roi Lear overture. BBC Philharmonic. Dir. Vassily Sinaisky. BBC Records.[19]
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9. Neal Davies, Helena Juntunen, Katarina Karneus, Minnesota Chorale and Minnesota Orchestra. Dir. Osmo Vänskä. BIS SACD1616.
  • Mercadante: I Normanni a Parigi (Highlights). Philharmonia Orchestra. Dir. Stuart Stradford. Opera Rara. ORR249.
  • Donizetti: Rita (Deux hommes et une femme). The Hallé. Dir. Sir Mark Elder. Opera Rara ORC50.

References

  1. Kungliga Hovstaterna
    , accessed 2018-10-07.
  2. ISBN 0-19-533765-4
  3. ^ a b c d e Oliver, Michael. Learning, watching and listening (interview with Katerina Karnéus). International Opera Collector, Summer 1999, p28-29.
  4. ^ "Karnéus, Katarina (Mezzo Soprano)". Metropolitan Opera Archives. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
  5. ^ a b c "Katarina Karnéus". Hyperion Records. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
  6. ^ Milnes, R. Der Rosenkavalier (review of WNO, Cardiff). Opera, Vol 51 No 9, September 2000, p1105-6.
  7. ^ a b "Katarina Karnéus ny solist på GöteborgsOperan". GöteborgsOperan. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
  8. ^ a b c "Katarina Karneus". Bolshoi Theatre. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
  9. ^ "Katarina Karnéus". Opera Online. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
  10. ^ "The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2010". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
  11. ^ Therése Norén (26 August 2013). "Opera på gång i paviljong" (in Swedish). Eskilstuna-Kuriren. Archived from the original on 7 September 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  12. ^ "Katarina Karnéus". Eniro. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
  13. Opera
    , December 2015, Vol 66 No 12, 1573-75.
  14. ^ Coughlan, Alexandra. Report from Gothenburg, Sweden. Opera, June 2020, Vol.71, No.6 p742-743.
  15. ^ "Tio nya ledamöter". Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  16. ^ "Operapriset". Tidskriften Opera. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
  17. ^ "BBC Cardiff Singer of the World". BBC. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
  18. ^ "Classic FM Arts partners head for Grammy Awards". Classic FM. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
  19. ^ BBC CD: MM92.

External links

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