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The Swedish mezzo-soprano, Elisabeth Jansson, studied at the Richard Strauss Konservatorium in Munich, the Royal Academy Of Music in London, and the Royal Opera Academy, Copenhagen. She has received numerous awards such as Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize, Isabel Jay Operatic Prize, Joel Berglund Scholarship, and Michael Head prize for singing. During her studies she sang roles such as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Cherubino in Le Nozze Di Figaro, Charlotte in Werther, Romeo in I Capuletti e Montecchi, Baba the Turk in Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, Messagiera in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, and Lucretia in Benjamin Britten’s The Rape Of Lucretia.
Elisabeth Jansson is a much sought after concert singer and she has appeared in L.v. Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 with Burgess Hill Symphony Orchestra, Gustav Mahler’s Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen with the Sirius Ensemble, Brahms’ Gestillte Sehnsucht and Geistliches Wiegenlied in Munich, Swedish Songs and Italian Opera Arias with Accademia di Danemarca in Rome and Villa San Michele on Capri, Italy, Johannes Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody with Royal Academy of Music Concert Orchestra, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at Musik in der Wies Festival, Bavaria, J.S. Bach’s Cantata BWV 78 - Jesu, Der Du Meine Seele at the London Bach Festival, George Frideric Handel’s Messiah with the Essex Symphony Orchestra, J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) in Copenhagen, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in Halmstad, Sweden, W.A. Mozart's Requiem with the Odense Symphony Orchestra, and Felix Mendelssohnn’s Elijah in Budapest.
In the season 2003-2004 Elisabeth Jansson made her debut as Cherubino in W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro at the Royal Danish Opera. In the autumn of 2004 she sang Rossweisse in Die Walküre at the Royal Danish Opera, J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) with the Stavanger Symfoniorkester and the conductor Andreas Spering, G.F. Handel’s Messiah with Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, and concerts of César Franck’s Les Béatitudes in Bergen, Norway.
Forthcoming engagements include L.v. Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with RIAS-Kammerchor Berlin, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Rossweisse in Die Walküre, and Miranda in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest at the Royal Danish Opera, J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion (BWV 245) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris and Kölner Philharmonie with the conductor Andreas Spering, concerts with Odense Symphony Orchestra, and J.S. Bach's St. John Passion (BWV 245) in Ystad, Sweden. With the Barockorchester Stuttgart she will sing F. Mendelssohn's Paulus, make a concert tour in Europe with J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244), and record as well as sing concerts of J.S. Bach’s Easter Oratorio (BWV 249) and Cantata BWV 146, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Danket Dem Herrn.
In the W.A. Mozart year 2006 Elisabeth Jansson will sing a number of productions of W.A. Mozart’s Requiem across Europe; in Cologne, Munich, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, and Stuttgart with the conductor Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, in Copenhagen with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the conductor Thomas Dausgaard, with Stavanger Symfoniorkester and the conductor Paul McCreesh, as well as with Århus Symphony Orchestra. She will sing Rossweisse in Die Walküre in the forthcoming Ring with the conductor Sir Simon Rattle at the Festival Aix en Provence and at the Easter Festival in Salzburg. |
