| Biography | Soprano Tina Kiberg studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the Opera Academy in Copenhagen. Her debut at the Danish Royal Theatre was as Leonora in Carl Nielsens Masquerade (1983). Subsequently she sang many major roles and developed in an increasingly dramatic direction, culminating with Brünhilde in Wagners Ring of the Nibelung, Isolde in Tristan and Isolde by the same composer, and the title role in Richard Strausss Electra. Kiberg achieved her international opera breakthrough as Agathe in Webers Der Freischütz in Geneva. As a Wagner singer she has made particularly notable appearances as Elsa in Lohengrin at the opera houses in Vienna, Brussels, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Zurich, and Houston. Kiberg made her Bayreuth debut in 1992 as Elisabeth in Wagners Tannhäuser and sang Sieglinde in the complete Ring cycle at Bayreuth from 1994 to 1998. She made her New York Metropolitan debut in 1995. She has sung under conductors such as James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Claudio Abbado, and Vladimir Ashkenazy, and can be heard and seen on a long series of CD and DVD productions from Denmark and abroad. Kiberg has been honoured as a Royal chamber singer and was awarded Torben Anton Svendsens memorial stipend in 2010. Other marks of recognition include Elisabeth Donss memorial stipend in 1986 and again in 2011, the artists prize of the Danish association of music critics in 1990, the Aksel Schiøtz prize in 1991, and Tagea Brandts travel stipend in 1993. She was named knight of the order of the Dannebrog in 1993. |