"Inger Dam-Jensen gave a brilliant theatrical display as Cleopatra. Here is a soprano who has everything - great looks, a sparkling voice that never loses its quality, glittering allure and intensity." Richard Fairman, The Financial Times
An outstanding performer on the concert platform, Inger Dam-Jensen has made a number of concert debuts to remarkable critical acclaim. These include Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis; Les illuminations with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Bernard Haitink; Mahler's Second Symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnányi; Mahler's Fourth Symphony with the Orchestra of the Bastille under James Conlon, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Edo de Waart and with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard; Strauss' Brentano Lieder with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Jesus Lopez-Cobos; the Final Scene from Strauss' Daphne and Vier Letzte Lieder with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Berio's Folksongs with Tonkünstler Orchester under Ernesto Martinez-Isquierdo.
Inger Dam-Jensen's operatic roles include Pamina Die Zauberflöte for Opera Bastille, Despina Cosi Fan Tutte, Blondchen Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail, Lisa La Sonnambula for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden and Sifare Mitridate for Geneva Opera. At home in Denmark with Royal Danish Opera, roles include Cleopatra Giulio Cesare, Zdenka Arabella, Ophelia Hamlet, Norina Don Pasquale, Sophie Der Rosenkavalier, Adina L'elisir D'amore, Susanna Le Nozze Di Figaro, Musetta La Bohème and Gilda Rigoletto .
In recital Inger Dam-Jensen has appeared at the Cologne Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall, in the Proms Chamber Series and on Radio France. Her discography includes Peer Gynt for Teldec; Solomon under Paul McCreesh for DGG, Ein Deutsches Requiem for Chandos and a selection of Carl Nielsen songs for DaCapo; the latter received the Gramophone award for Best Vocal Recording that year. The Royal Danish Opera's production of Giulio Cesare will be available on DVD for Harmonia Mundi alongside her first solo-recital recording with songs by Richard Strauss.
Highlights this season include Berg's Seven Early Songs with Orchestre Philharmonique de Liege, Mahler's Second Symphony with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, in addition to Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Herbert Blomstedt. At Royal Danish Opera she performed the role of Donna Anna Don Giovanni, and will make her role début as Lucia di Lammermoor. Outside the Royal Opera she will be performing Michaela Carmen for the first time this season. On the concert platform in 2007/8 she will be performing Grieg's Peer Gynt in Cleveland, Granada and Washington, Mahler 2 in Milan, Beethoven 9 in Helsingborg, Beethoven concert arias and Fynsk Forår with DR, among engagements in Stavanger, Malmö and Uppsala.
Winner of the coveted Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 1993, Inger Dam-Jensen began her formal music education at the Royal Danish Academy of Music before moving to the Danish Opera School in 1990 to study with Professor Kirsten Buhl Møller.
Inger Dam-Jensen is represented by Intermusica (excl. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland)
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