Lisa Larsson

Lisa Larsson ( born 1967) is a Swedish classical singer (soprano ).

Larsson began her musical career as a concert flutist before studying singing in Basel. From 1993 to 1995 she performed under Franz Welser- Möst, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christoph von Dohnanyi and others in the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House.

In the 1995/1996 season she appeared in the role of Papagena in Mozart's Magic Flute, Ricardo Muti at La Scala in Milan. In the same season she also appeared in the Zurich Opera, the Opéra de Lausanne and the Komische Oper Berlin, sang Adele also Strauss' Die Fledermaus at the Ludwigsburg Festival and was at the Hamburg Opera weeks in Bizet's Carmen and Verdi's Don Carlo conducted by Ralf Weikert heard.

1996/1997 Larsson joined as a member of the Basel Opera as Amor in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, Susanna heard as in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and as Oscar in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. The following year she made her debut at Det Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen and sang at the Salzburg Easter Festival 1998, the Xenia from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov by Claudio Abbado. In the next few years, she performed at the festivals of Aix -en- Provence and Montreux and Glyndebourne Opera Festival and had engagements at Det Kongelige Teater, of La Monnaie and the Opéra de Nancy.

As an oratorio singers Larsson worked with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Nicholas McGegan, with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under Christopher Hogwood, Claus Peter Flor and Ton Koopman, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir under sound Koopman, with John Eliot Gardiner at festivals in Strasbourg, St. Denis and Aldeburgh, with Peter Schreier in Copenhagen, with Martin Haselboeck in Vienna.

On CD Larsson, he recorded the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat and several cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach with Ton Koopman and Robert Schumann's Manfred under Mario Venzago on.