Marita Solberg

Norwegian soprano (born 1976)

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Marita Kvarving Sølberg (born March 22, 1976) is a Norwegian soprano.

Education

Sølberg studied at the "National College of Operatic Art" in Oslo and at the "Norwegian Academy of Music" in Oslo.

Career

Sølberg has worked with Marc Minkowski, Zubin Mehta, Michel Plasson and other conductors. From 2006 to 2008 Solberg was a principal singer at the Staatsoper, Stuttgart. Other opera engagements include Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Teatro Real, Madrid, Komische Oper, Berlin and the Norwegian National Opera.

Operatic roles

Michaela in Carmen
Pamina in Die Zauberflöte (2008, 2009)
Servilia in La clemenza di Tito
Title role in Zaide (2008)
Zerlina in Don Giovanni
Celia in Lucio Silla
Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel (2008)
Marzelline in Fidelio
Charmion in Massenet's Cléopatre
The angel in Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise.
Bellezza in George Frideric Handel's Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (Rinaldo Alessandrini.)

Orchestral and chamber music

Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 (Zubin Mehta).
Una voce dal cielo from Don Carlo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arias (Norwegian National Opera gala concert)
Handel, Messiah, in Moscow (Peter Neumann)
Felix Mendelssohn, Elijah, with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos)

Awards

In August 2001, Solberg won first prize at the Queen Sonja Singing Competition in Oslo. In July 2004, Solberg won third prize as well as the "International Media Jury Award" at the "International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition" in Vienna.