17 Facts About Lise Davidsen

Lise Davidsen was born on 8 February 1987 and is a Norwegian soprano opera singer.

Lise Davidsen came to prominence after winning the Operalia competition in London in 2015.

Lise Davidsen was born in 1987 in Stokke, Norway, and began playing guitar and singing when she was fifteen.

Lise Davidsen then began studying for a master's degree at the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen, and her teacher helped her develop her voice as an operatic soprano.

Lise Davidsen went on to sing Emilia in Verdi's Otello and Rosalinde in Strauss's Die Fledermaus, and won the Reumert Talentpris.

Lise Davidsen won three prizes at the 2015 Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Amsterdam, and was an HSBC Aix-en-Provence Laureate, received a Statoil Talent Bursary Award, the Leonie Sonning Music Prize, and the Kirsten Flagstad Prize.

In 2017, Davidsen made her debut at Glyndebourne, singing the title role in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, gave her first recital at Wigmore Hall, and gave her first performance at the BBC Proms.

Lise Davidsen has performed at the Zurich Opera House, Vienna State Opera, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Royal Opera House, Teatro Colon, and the Bavarian State Opera.

Lise Davidsen made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, in the leading role of Lisa in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades in November 2019.

Lise Davidsen debuted on 10 May 2021 at La Scala when the opera house reopened after a six-month shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lise Davidsen delivered interpretations of arias by Henry Purcell, Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Giuseppe Verdi and Tchaikovsky.

On 9 September 2023, Lise Davidsen closed out the Last Night of the Proms as the vocal soloist.

Lise Davidsen had been scheduled to fill this role in 2022, but the event was cancelled that year following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Lise Davidsen appeared as Leonora in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Verdi's La forza del destino, which opened on 26 February 2024.

Lise Davidsen sang the role of Anitra in a recording of Peer Gynt with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir conducted by Edward Gardner on the Chandos label released in 2018.

Lise Davidsen sang the role of Agathe in a complete recording of Der Freischutz conducted by Marek Janowski, released in 2019.

Lise Davidsen, accompanied by pianist and fellow Norwegian Leif Ove Andsnes, sings selections from Grieg in a recording released on Decca in 2022.