Solveig Kringlebotn

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Solveig Kringlebotn (born June 4, 1963) is an internationally-known Norwegian opera singer.

Kringlebotn is one of Norway's most well-known singers within classical music and has visited the Proms concerts in Royal Albert Hall several times. She has also toured with renowned orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, sung at festivals such as Hollywood Bowl, Edinburgh, and Glyndebourne. Kringlebotn has also sung at opera houses in London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Munich, and at the Salzburg Festival. She has worked with many leading composers, such as Mehta, Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Abbado, von Dohnanyi, Chung, Pappano, Rattle, Rozdestvensky, Welser-Möst, etc.

She was awarded the Spellemann award in 1998 in the classical music category for the album Black Roses.

In recent years she has had five lead roles at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where she debuted as Eva in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. In the fall of 2004 she sang her first Strauss opera, as the lead role in Ariadne auf Naxos in Paris. In 2007 she returned to play the lead role in the Strauss opera Capriccio. In 2006 Kaaija Saariahos's opera Ariadna Mater had its world premiere with Kringlebotn in the lead role. After Rosenkavaleren at the Norwegian National Opera, she will go on to La Scala where she will sing Elsa in Lohengrin. She has also sung on a number of CD recordings, including Grieg's Haugtussa and the newly released Erwartung.