Fredrika Brillembourg, mezzo soprano

American-born mezzo-soprano Fredrika Brillembourg has been hailed as one of the leading young mezzos of our time.  She grew up in New York City and studied music at Vassar College.

As an ensemble member of the Bremen Theatre and a frequent guest artist in Germany and abroad, she has garnered many personal successes and won a number of awards, including the prize for the best young artist of the year from the opera magazine Opernwelt. Fredrika Brillembourg enjoys the high esteem of press and public both for her outstanding vocal talent and for her charismatic stage personality. Thanks to her dynamic acting talent and expressive intensity, she has become one of the preferred partners of such acclaimed directors as Werner Schroeter and Christof Loy. She has won great acclaim singing such a diverse range of characters as Bizet's Carmen, Gluck's Orphée and Mozart's Dorabella.

In addition to her opera engagements, her concert activities form another focal point of her artistic career. Lieder recitals and orchestral concerts have recently taken her to Birmingham, to the Teatro Teresa Careño in Caracas, and to the Music Festival of the Hamptons in New York. In 2000, Fredrika Brillembourg made her house debut at Brussels' Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie under Antonio Pappano, singing the role of Meg Page in Verdi's Falstaff. Shortly thereafter, she debuted at Dresden's Semperoper in the same part. Other recent successful guest appearances have been at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, and in Geneva under Armin Jordan.

Forthcoming projects for this talented artist include Handel's Semele at the Basel Theatre and Berg's Wozzeck conducted by Daniel Harding and staged by Stéphane Braunschweig in Aix-en-Provence.