Season highlights
Title role Medea
Wexford Festival Opera
Title role Ariadne auf Naxos
Wiener Staatsoper
Title role Ariadne auf Naxos
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
Opera Repertoire
Cherubini
Title role Médée*
Hindemith
Susanna Sancta Susanna
Janáček
Title role Jenufa*
Mozart
Vitellia La clemenza di Tito
R. Strauss
Title role Ariadne auf Naxos
Tchaikovsky
Lisa Pique Dame*
Verdi
Desdemona Otello*
Amelia Un ballo in maschera*
Wagner
Princess Elisabeth Tannhäuser*
Isabella Das Liebesverbot
Freia Das Rheingold
Ortlinde Die Walküre
Third Norn Götterdämmerung
Elsa Lohengrin*
Weber
Agathe Der Freischütz
*In pre
paration
Concert repertoire
Beethoven
Symphony No.9
Missa Solemnis
Britten
War Requiem
Mahler
Das Klagende Lied
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Rückert-Lieder
Symphony No. 8
Schoenberg
Gurrelieder
Strauss
Vier letzte Lieder
Verdi
Requiem
Wagner
Wesendonk Lieder
The Observer, June 2017It's one of the greatest voices I have heard
The Times, June 2017...you may banish me to Naxos if she doesn’t become the most wanted Wagnerian soprano of her generation
Financial Times, July 2015Every competition hopes to discover a major new talent. Operalia, Plácido Domingo’s international singing competition, did just that at the weekend. Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, aged 28, is the real deal… she sealed her win with singing that was strong and technically flawless, and put her name at the top of the list of young singers of her generation .