Praised for her luminous voice, musical sensitivity and versatility, Belgian soprano Ilse Eerens enjoys an international opera and concert career in repertoire that spans from Bach to works of the 21st century.
Highlights of the current season include Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Orchestre Philharmonique Liège and Symphony no 9 with Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen, Brahms Requiem and Bach’s B minor Mass with the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Peter Dijkstra, La Vierge in Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bucher with hr-Sinfonieorchester and Alain Altinoglu, Bach’s Matthäuspassion with Phion and Residentie Orkest. Liza Lim’s Fatimah/Jubilation of Flowers with Basel Sinfonietta and Mahler’s Symphony No 8 at La Monnaie. She will conclude the season with her return to New National Theater Tokyo in the title role and world premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s new opera Natasha.
Recent seasons saw engagements at Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Salzburger Festspiele, Theater an der Wien, Opera de Lyon, Opera de Lille, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Bregenzer Festspiele in roles such as Pamina and 1.Dame/Die Zauberflöte, Mélisande/Pelléas et Mélisande, title-roles in Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen and Hosokawa’s Matsukaze, Tschang-haitang in Zemlinsky’s Der Kreidekreis, Marianne in HK Gruber’s Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald, La Vierge in Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher, Susanna/Le nozze di Figaro, Despina/Cosi fan tutte and Héro in Berlioz’ Béatrice et Benedict.
Ms Eerens has worked with conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Riccardo Muti, Hartmut Haenchen, Lorenzo Viotti, Kazushi Ono, HK Gruber, Ton Koopman, Philippe Herreweghe, Richard Egarr, Laurence Equilbey, Jean-Christoph Spinosi, Michael Schønwandt, Mark Wigglesworth, Jaap van Zweden, Antonello Manacorda and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and ensembles like Orchestre National de Radio France, Orquesta y Coro Nacional d’España, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, MDR Sinfonieorchester, City of Birmingham Symphony, Rotterdam and Brussels Philharmonic, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Zürcher Kammerorchester, Capella Mediterranea, Beethovenorchester Bonn, Choeur Accentus and NDR Vokalensemble, just to name a few.
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