Eva Lind (born June 14, 1965) is an Austrian operatic lyric coloratura soprano.
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Eva Lind was born on June 14th 1966 in Innsbruck, where she started singing as a teenager. While studying philosophy at the University of Vienna she continued her professional training as a singer. Her teachers were Marta Lantieri, Ruthilde Boesch and Wilma Lipp.
At the age of 19, she made her professional debut as Queen of the Night in Mozart's "Magic Flute" at the Vienna State Opera and starred as Lucia in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in Basel. These two sensational events marked the beginning of an impressive international career which so far has allowed her to appear on the world's major opera and concert stages such as New York (Carnegie Hall), Milan (Teatro alla Scala), Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden, Deutsche Oper, Philharmonie), Munich (Bayerische Staatsoper,Philharmonie am Gasteig, Herkulessaal, Cuvilliestheater), London (Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall), Madrid (Teatro de la Zarzuela), Zurich (Tonhalle, Opernhaus), Paris (Théatre des Champs-Elysées), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw, Opera House), Stockholm ( Opera House), Buenos Aires (Teatro Colón), Mexico City, Tokyo (Suntory Hall, Tokyo Opera City), Osaka (Symphony Hall) and Shanghai (Opera House). She also sang at the festivals of Salzburg, Arena di Verona, Glyndebourne and Schleswig-Holstein.
She has worked with conductors like Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Colin Davis, Kurt Masur, Bernhard Haitink, René Jacobs, André Previn and Lord Yehudi Menuhin.
Eva Lind appears extensively on stage performing soprano roles like Konstanze ("The Abduction from the Seraglio"), Gilda ("Rigoletto"), Juliette ("Romeo et Juliette"), Amina ("La Sonnambula"), Rosalinde ("Die Fledermaus"), Violetta ("La Traviata") and many more.
Besides opera, Eva Lind's repertoire embraces a wide range of songs by composers such as Mozart, Schubert, Strauss, Brahms, Wolf, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Mahler and Berg and songs by Debussy, Satie, Fauré, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi and others.
She went on a concert tour through Japan with members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (January 2010) and has given a solo recital at Milan's Teatro dal Verme on May 5, 2010. In July 2010 she sang Gilda in Rigoletto (with Leo Nucci as Rigoletto) at the Opera Festival in Solothurn.
From December 27, 2010 until January 6, 2011 she toured China (Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Dalian, Hangzhou, Changsha, Meizhou) together with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra.
Andrew Lamb in the Gramophone described her voice as "sheer delight, fresh, crisp, clear, beautifully agile and with superb trills."
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