Ann-Helen Moen, Soprano
Biography
Biography
Born in Molde, Norway, lyric soprano Ann-Helen Moen is a graduate of the Grieg Academy, Bergen, and the Opera Academy, Copenhagen, where she studied with Susanna Eken, Ingrid Bjoner and Håkan Hagegård. She was a prize-winner at the Belvedere Competition in Vienna and was awarded Norway's most prestigious singing prize, the Esso Award.
Ann-Helen is probably best known as an interpreter of early music and Mozart but has also had significant success in roles from the romantic period and sung in several world premieres in Europe and the US.
Previously a member of Opera Graz, Austria, Ann-Helen's roles include Pamina Die Zauberflöte, the title role in Semele, Sandrina La Finta Giardiniera, Donna Elvira Don Giovanni, Lauretta Il Trittico, Julia Der Vetter aus Dingsda (Künneke), Echo Ariadne auf Naxos, Blumenmädchen Parsifal and Ann Trulove The Rake's Progress.
Elsewhere, engagements include Sandrina for Hanover Staatsoper; Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Zerlina Don Giovanni and Nina in the world premiere of G.E.Hauglands Rebekka for the Norwegian National Opera; Semele and Almirena Rinaldo for Zürich Oper (William Christie conducted both), Ann Trulove The Rake's Progress in Trieste; Poppea L'Incoronatione di Poppea in Braunschweig; Contessa Le Nozze di Figaro in Cork and Ystad(Sweden); Micaela Carmen in Trondheim and Bergen; Laura Wingfield The Glass Menagerie (Bibalo) for Opera Vest and Théâtre Paris Villette; the title role in Anne Pedersdotter (Bræin) in Kristiansund; the Scottish Margrete in the world premiere of The Maid of Norway (Habbestad) in Bergen.
She made her Carnegie Hall debut during The Andsnes Project in 2005.
Broadcasts have included Laura Wingfield, The Glass Menagerie on NRK (TV) and Solveig Peer Gynt (Ibsen/Grieg) in a performance that took place in front of the pyramids of Giza, Egypt, and broadcast by NRK on New Year's Eve 2006. For NRK (Norway) and DR (Denmark) radio she has recorded numerous concerts.
She has recorded Te Deum (J. Sousa-Carvalho) on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and has recorded songs by Catharinus Elling with Gunilla Sussmann for Simax Classics which will be released in 2009.
She has worked with conductors like: Matthias Aeschbacher, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Giancarlo Andretta, Ingar Bergby, Terje Boye-Hansen, William Christie, Harry Christophers, Francesco Corti, Bruno Dal Bon, Christian Eggen, Bjarte Engeset, Daniel Inbal, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Phillippe Jordan, Nicholas Kok, Trond Korsgård, Andrew Litton, Kevin Mallon, Georg Mark, Susanna Mällki, Juanjo Mena, Zolt Nagy, Imants Resnis, Kjell Seim, Andreas Spering, Christoph Spering, Johannes Stert and Arnold Östmann.
www.annhelenmoen.com
Copenhagen Artists represents Ann-Helen Moen in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.