Lise Lindstrom

In 2016 Lindstrom performed Brünnhilde in her first-ever full Ring Cycle for Opera Australia for which she was awarded the Green Room Award and Helpmann Award. The critics went wild as “Lindstrom, a tremendous Brunnhilde throughout…ended the Ring in a blaze of glory literally and metaphorically”. A leading interpreter of Wagner’s heroines, Lindstrom has also portrayed Senta in Der fliegende Holländer with San Francisco Opera, Polish National Opera and New Orleans Opera, both Elisabeth and Venus in Tannhäuser with Greek National Opera, and Brünnhilde in Die Walküre with Teatro Massimo in Palermo, where Der Opernfreund proclaimed “a sleek powerhouse entered the stage….A magnificent ‘Hojotoho.’”

Lindstrom’s engagements in the 2017/18 season include Salome at the Wiener Staatsoper with Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Marie in Wozzeck at the Theater an der Wien; Brünnhilde in Die Walküre at the Hamburg Staatsoper with Kent Nagano; and Turandot at the Wiener Staatsoper and for San Diego Opera. Concert highlights of this season include Turandot with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and Myung-Whun Chung, Mahler Symphony No.8 with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding and Beethoven Symphony No.9 with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Jaap van Zweden. Plans include returns in major roles to Hamburg Staatsoper; Wiener Staatsoper; San Diego Opera, Opera Australia, and Liceu Barcelona.

In the 2016/17 season, in addition to her Ring Cycle in Australia, Lindstrom made her role debut as Die Färberin in Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten in a new production with the Hamburg Staatsoper under the baton of Kent Nagano; joined the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra under Pietari Inkinen as Brünnhilde in excerpts from Siegfried and Götterdämmerung; and made house debuts with the Deutsche Oper Am Rhein, China National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and returned to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden – all as Turandot.

Other recent successes include concert performances of Elektra with Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Verbier Festival; Elektra for Opera de Montreal and Hamburg Staatsoper; Salome at the Wiener Staatsoper; and Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Teatro alla Scala Milan, Seoul Arts Center, San Diego Opera and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia. In addition, she was heard alongside the Vienna Philharmonic as Turandot in Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation in cinemas worldwide.

Recent concert performances include the final scene of Salome with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas; Strauss Vier letzte Lieder in San Francisco; a concert of Wagner at the Glimmerglass Festival; Verdi Requiem at the Washington National Cathedral; Salome with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; the Orchestre National de Lyon and the Detroit Symphony, and Turandot with the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela and Gustavo Dudamel.

Born and raised in California, Lise Lindstrom was introduced to music by her mother, a singer and music teacher. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at San Francisco State University and Master of Music degree at San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

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