Eva Lind
Eva Lind is an Austrian soprano singer and TV presenter. She has specialised in coloratura soprano opera roles since 1985, and sings in concerts and recitals.
Lind has appeared on television as performer and presenter. She hosted several music programs, including ARD's Straße der Lieder from 2003 to 2008, alongside Gotthilf Fischer.
Andrew Lamb in Gramophone described her voice as "sheer delight, fresh, crisp, clear, beautifully agile and with superb trills."
Life and career
Education
Lind was born in Innsbruck. She began her vocal training at the Tyrol State Conservatory in her native city, and won the Austrian competition Jugend musiziert in 1983. In the same year, she debuted as Flowermaiden in Wagner's Parsifal at the Tyrolean State Theatre. While studying philosophy, journalism and theatre studies at the University of Vienna she continued her professional training as a singer. Her teachers were Marta Lantieri, Ruthilde Boesch and Wilma Lipp.Singing career
In 1985, at the age of 19, Lind appeared as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Vienna State Opera, where she was engaged as a ensemble member in the following years, singing roles including Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Sophie in Massenet's Werther.She sang in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in the 1985/86 season at the Theater Basel. In 1986, she debuted at the Salzburg Festival as Italian Singer in Capriccio. She also performed in Monte-Carlo, Stuttgart, Zürich, Berlin, Munich. In 1987, she debuted at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's new production of The Magic Flute conducted by Daniel Barenboim. In 1988, she appeared for the first time at the Royal Albert Hall and the Glyndebourne Festival as Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff conducted by Bernard Haitink. In 1991, she debuted in the role of Gilda alongside Alfredo Kraus at the Teatro de la Maestranza, and in 1996, in Violetta at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden. In 1997, she performed the Woodbird in Wagner's Siegfried at La Scala in Milan, and in 1998, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera at the Arena di Verona Festival.
In 2002, she sang the lead role in the premiere of Mascagni's operetta Sì at the Vienna Volksoper.
She went on a concert tour through Japan with members of the Vienna Philharmonic in January 2010 and gave a solo recital at Milan's Teatro Dal Verme on 5 May 2010. In July 2010, she sang Gilda in Rigoletto at the Opera Festival in Solothurn.
Lind sang her first Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci in July 2012 at the Schlossfestspiele Schwerin.
Lind made regular opera and concert appearances in China. In 2003, she sang Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Staatstheater Stuttgart in Hong Kong. In 2005, she debuted in the role of Rosina in The Barber of Seville in a guest performance of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma at the Shanghai Opera House. From 27 December 2010, until 6 January 2011, she toured Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Dalian, Hangzhou, Changsha, Meizhou in New Year concerts with the Berliner Symphoniker.
In March/April 2014 she went on a solo recital tour to Shanghai, Chongqing, Dalian, Xuzhou, Nanning and Nanchang together with Chinese pianist Xin Sui.
She also made guest appearances at venues in Berlin, Munich, London, Madrid, Zurich, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Tokyo, Osaka.
Television career
Eva Lind made her first TV appearance in 1983 on the ORF talent show Die große Chance. Under the direction of Claudio Abbado she appeared in 1985 alongside Montserrat Caballé and Marilyn Horne in the TV production Rossini at Versailles. In 2002, she presented the Stars von morgen series on Arte. In 2003 and 2004 she hosted and sang in ZDF's program Adventliche Klänge aus Dresden at the Dresden Frauenkirche.From 2003 until the program's end in 2008 she was a host with Gotthilf Fischer in Straße der Lieder, Saturday evening Volkslieder program on ARD.
In 2009 she hosted the Semperopernball on MDR Fernsehen with Gunther Emmerlich.
Academy of Music Tyrol
Lind founded the Academy of Music Tyrol in 2015, which offers masterclasses for classical singing and instruments.Awards
- European Sponsorship Prize for Young Artists
- Decoration of Honour of the State of Tyrol
Discography
Recitals and collaborations
Frühlingsstimmen– Wiener Volksopernorchester, Franz Bauer-Theussl Coloratura Arias – Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Heinz Wallberg Operatic Duets, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Ralf Weikert Ich bin verliebt – Accademia di Montegridolfo, Gustav Kuhn My Romance, The London Musicians Orchestra, David Giménez Carreras Operetten-Gala der Weltstars, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Marcello Viotti Lieder, die zu Herzen geh'n – Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, Erich Becht Sentimento – Philharmonic Orchestra München, Herrmann Weindorf Wunder gescheh'n – Philharmonic Orchestra München, Herrmann Weindorf Ich will leben – Kölner Symphonisches Orchester, Erich Becht Mozart rennt – Das Rennquintett Stille Nacht – Kölner Symphonisches Orchester, Erich Becht Magic Moments, Philharmonic Orchestra München, Herrmann Weindorf Frühling im Herzen accompanied by Johann Strauss Ensemble Eva Lind - Bijoux Regenbogenfarben Die Symphonie des Lebens- ''Weihnachtslieder Klassik''