Lise Davidsen is a 32-year-old soprano who has quickly risen to the top of the operatic field.
Davidsen studied singing at the Grieg Academy of Music in Bergen, and as a student sang in the Norwegian Soloists Choir as a mezzo-soprano. She switched to the soprano repertory while studying for her Masters degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
She graduated from Copenhagen’s Opera Academy in 2014. Since 2015, she has appeared with opera companies including Vienna State Opera, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Norwegian National Opera, Zürich Opera, Stuttgart Opera and Frankfurt Opera, her roles including Agathe (Der Freischütz), Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana), Prima Donna/Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos), Liza (The Queen of Spades), Isabella (Das Liebesverbot) and Freia/Third Norn.
In 2017 she made her Glyndebourne Festival and Vienna State Opera debuts as Prima Donna/Ariadne and her Wexford Festival debut as Cherubini’s Medea. Engagements in 2019 included debuts at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, as Liza, and her Bayreuth Festival debut as Elisabeth (Tannhäuser).
Here she is, performing the “Four Last Songs” by Richard Strauss:
