"Inger Dam-Jensen gave a brilliant theatrical display as Cleopatra. Here is a soprano who has everything - great looks, a sparkling voice that never loses its quality, glittering allure and intensity." Richard Fairman, The Financial Times
An outstanding performer on the concert platform, Inger Dam-Jensen has made a number of concert debuts to remarkable critical acclaim. These include Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis; Les illuminations with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Bernard Haitink; Mahler's Second Symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnányi; Mahler's Fourth Symphony with the Orchestra of the Bastille under James Conlon, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Edo de Waart and with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard; Strauss' Brentano Lieder with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Jesus Lopez-Cobos; the Final Scene from Strauss' Daphne and Vier Letzte Lieder with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Berio's Folksongs with Tonkünstler Orchester under Ernesto Martinez-Isquierdo.
Inger Dam-Jensen’s operatic roles include Pamina Die Zauberflöte Opera Bastille; Despina Così Fan Tutte, Blondchen Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail, Lisa La Sonnambula for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Sifare Mitridate for Geneva Opera; and Michaela Carmen. At home in Denmark with Royal Danish Opera, roles include Cleopatra Giulio Cesare, Zdenka Arabella, Ophelia Hamlet, Norina Don Pasquale, Sophie Der Rosenkavalier, Adina L’elisir D’amore, Susanna Le Nozze Di Figaro, Musetta La Bohème, Gilda Rigoletto, Donna Anna Don Giovanni, and Lucia Lucia di Lammermoor.
In recital Inger Dam-Jensen has appeared at the Cologne Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall, in the Proms Chamber Series and on Radio France. She has performed Berg’s Seven Early Songs with Orchestre Philharmonique de Liege; Mahler Symphony No.2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Orchestre Sinfonica Milano; Beethoven Missa Solemnis with The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Herbert Blomstedt; Grieg’s Peer Gynt in Cleveland, Granada and Washington; Beethoven 9 in Helsingborg; Beethoven concert arias and Fynsk Forår with DR, among engagements in Stavanger, Malmö and Uppsala; and tour in Sweden singing Strauss Four Last Songs; and Britten Les Illuminations with Tivoli Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlos Kalmar.
Future engagements include Violetta La Traviata and title role in Pathernope for Royal Danish Opera; a Scandinavian songs recital in Aberdeen for BBC Scotland; Grieg songs with Malmö Symphony Orchestra and Vassily Sinaisky and a concert with Malcolm Martineau for Danish Radio.
Her discography includes Peer Gynt for Teldec; Solomon under Paul McCreesh for DGG, Ein Deutsches Requiem for Chandos and a selection of Carl Nielsen songs for DaCapo; the latter received the Gramophone award for Best Vocal Recording that year. The Royal Danish Opera’s production of Giulio Cesare is available on DVD for Harmonia Mundi alongside her first solo-recital recording of songs by Richard Strauss.
Winner of the coveted Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 1993, Inger Dam-Jensen began her formal music education at the Royal Danish Academy of Music before moving to the Danish Opera School in 1990 to study with Professor Kirsten Buhl Møller.
Inger Dam-Jensen is represented by Intermusica (excl. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland)
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