Tuva Semmingsen

INTRODUCTION

Tuva Semmingsen is an elegant Barocco and Mozart mezzo-soprano with attractive voice and nice presence.

RECENT AND FUTURE HIGHLIGHTS

Recent performances and future highlights of Tuva Semmingsen include:

• Irene/Theodora by Händel and Vivaldi recital at Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and Karlsruhe Händel Festival;
• Claudio/Lucio Cornelio Silla at Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen;
• Mozart’s Requiem with Malmö Symphony Orchestra and the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra;
• concerts with Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir (Mozart’s Requiem at the Main Cathedral in Copenhagen, and Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem at Copenhagen and Aarhus);
• a concert tour with Esbjerg Ensemble;
• Film music concerts with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra;
• Zerlina/Don Giovanni at Den Ny Opera;
• Rosina/Il barbiere di Siviglia at Bergen International Festival and at Nordnorsk Opera;
• Ruggiero/Alcina at the Royal Danish Opera and the Norwegian Opera;
• Alcina/Orlando Paladino at Drottningholms Slottsteater;
• Daniel/Belshazzar by Händel at Zürich Opera House;
• Irene/Theodora by Händel in Moscow Concert Hall;
• Hermia/A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Malmö Opera;
• concerts with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra (DR), including Fantasymphony II;
• a Christmas concert with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra;
• New Year’s Concert and a ‘Galaxymphony’ concert with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra.

BIOGRAPHY

Tuva Semmingsen was born in Norway and trained at the Norwegian State Academy of Music and the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen.

In previous seasons the artist performed Idomeneo on tour with Les Arts Florissants/Christie, Rosina at the Norwegian State Opera and in Opera de Nancy and Reims and Giulio Cesare with Le Concert d’Astree and Emmanuelle Haïm at the Opera of Lille. At the concert podium she sang Handel’s Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Fabio Biondi. At the Royal Danish Opera Tuva Semmingsen has sung Rosmira/Partenope, Cherubino/Le Nozze di Figaro, Gymnasiast/Lulu, Lola/Cavalleria, Meg Page/Falstaff.

Other productions are Giulio Cesare at the Norwegian Opera conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini and directed by Stefan Herheim, and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Grand Opéra de Reims, Don Giovanni at the Royal Danish Opera as Zerlina, and Nerone/L’Incoronazione di Poppea, among others under the direction of David McVicar.

Tuva Semmingsen made her debut in 1999 at the Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen as Cherubino/Le Nozze di Figaro, a role she also performed at Teatro la Fenice, Venice in 2000. At the Royal Danish Opera she has also appeared amongst other as Sesto/Giulio Cesare, Angelina/La Cenerentola, Minerva and Melanto in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, and as Rosina/Il Barbiere di Siviglia.