Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz

• Name — Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz • Born — 27 January 1959 • Birthplace — Oslo, Norway • Education — Conservatorio Santa Cecilia • Occupation — * Operatic soprano • voice teacher • Father — Christian Norberg-Schulz Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (born 27 January 1959) is a Norwegian-Italian operatic soprano.

Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz is the daughter of Norwegian architectural theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz, and Italian translator and writer Anna Maria de Dominicis. She grew up in Ris, Oslo. When she was young she took lessons in voice with Anne Brown, as well as lessons in piano, ballet and theatre. She started studies at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome in 1974, first piano and from 1974 in voice with Rosina Vedrani Laporta, with whom she studied for ten years. She got a diploma in piano in 1978 and in voice in 1982. She has also studied with John Shirley-Quirk, Peter Pears, and for a number of years with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

She has performed in many of the world's leading opera houses and companies, including La Scala, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, La Fenice in Venice, the New York Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Opéra Bastille, La Monnaie in Brussels, Teatro Real in Madrid, Opéra de Genève, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Vienna State Opera and the Norwegian National Opera. Since 2006 she has been professor in voice and interpretation at the University of Stavanger in Norway.

Norberg-Schulz is married to Italian conductor Vittorio Bonolis. The couple have one son.

Her principal roles include (in alphabetical order): • AdeleDie Fledermaus (Johann Strauss II): Metropolitan Opera (New York) • AdinaAdina (Rossini): La Scala (Milan), Rome, Naples, Vienna State Opera • AsteriaTamerlano (Handel): Florence, Halle, London, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Paris) • ConstanceDialogues des Carmélites (Dialogues of the Carmelites) (Poulenc): La Scala • GildaRigoletto (Verdi): Vienna, Spoleto, Palermo, Treviso, Oslo • GretelHänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) (Humperdinck): Chicago • LiùTurandot (Puccini): Covent Garden, Athens, Bologna • LuciaLucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti): Vienna State Opera, Spoleto, Oslo • Manon LescautManon (Massenet): Vienna State Opera • MicaëlaCarmen (Bizet): Opéra Bastille (Paris), Rome, Oslo • MimìLa bohème (Puccini): Glyndebourne Festival, Oslo • MusettaLa bohème (Puccini): Florence, Vienna State Opera • NannettaFalstaff (Verdi): La Scala, Salzburg, Vienna State Opera, Madrid • NorinaDon Pasquale (Donizetti): Munich, Hamburg, Macerata, Naples • OscarUn ballo in maschera (Verdi): Metropolitan Opera, Chicago, Vienna State Opera, Oslo • PaminaDie Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) (Mozart): Chicago, Madrid, Salzburg Festival, Vienna State Opera, Bologna • SusannaLe nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) (Mozart): La Scala, Vienna • ZerlinaDon Giovanni (Mozart): Rome, Naples, Vienna • RomildaSerse (Handel): Florence, Halle, London, Les Arts Florissants (ensemble) Her festival appearances include the Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro, where she has sung Corinna (Il viaggio a Reims, Rossini), Anaïs (Anaï) (Mosè in Egitto, Moses in Egypt, Rossini), Jemmy (Guglielmo Tell, William Tell, Rossini) and Giulia (La scala di seta, The Silken Ladder, Rossini). They also include Salzburg, Montreux, Spoleto, Macerata, the Beethoven Festival (de) in Bonn, and the Handel Festival, Halle.