Teaching

CV

Born in Copenhagen.
General Certificate, upper secondary examination, Ingrid Jespersens Skole, 1977.
Admitted to the The Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1977 and to the Royal Danish Opera Academy in 1981.
Trained by Professor Oren Brown, The Juilliard School of Music, New York, and lecturer Susanna Eken, Copenhagen.
Employed as soloist at the Royal Danish Theatre from 1982-1988.
1988-2002: employed as soloist at Deutsche Oper Berlin.
1986: performed concurrently as guest soloist all over the world and became freelance from 2002.

Among others, Eva Johansson has performed with the following conductors:
Sir Simon Rattle, Claudio Abbado, James Levine, Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Valeri Gergiev, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bernard Haitink, Marek Janowski, Welser Möst, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Peter Schneider, Simone Young, Heinz Fricke, Adam Fischer, Christoph Eschenbach, Lorin Maazel, Guiseppe Sinopoli, Nicolaus Harnoncourt, Ivan Fischer, Donald Runnicles, Wolfgang Rennert, Charles Dutoit and Ulf Schirmer.

Eva Johansson has sung the following parts:

Ludvig van Beethoven:
Fidelio in Fidelio
Mozart:
The Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro
Fiordiligi in Cosi van Tutte
Pamina in Die Zauberflöte
Donna Anna in Don Giovanni
Tjajkovskij:
Tatjana in Eugen Onegin
Janácek:
Jenufa in Jenufa
Emilia Marty in Die Sache Makropulos
Puccini:
Liu in Turandot
Mimi in Boheme
Igor Stavinsky:
Anne in Rake’s Progress
Weber:
Agathe in Der Freischütz
Hindemith:
Regina in Mathis der Maler
Alban Berg:
Marie in Wozzeck
Richard Strauss:
Chrysothemis in Elektra
Elektra in Elektra
Salome in Salome
Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos
Marie in Friedenstag
Kaiserin in Die Frau ohne Schatten
Färberin in Die Frau ohne Schatten
Richard Wagner:
Eva in Meistersinger
Elsa in Lohengrin
Ortrud in Lohengrin
Elisabeth in Tannhäuser
Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer
Isolde in Tristan og Isolde
Sieglinde in Die Walküre
Brünnhilde in Die Walküre
Brünnhilde in Siegfried
Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung



Honours:
1986:Erna Hamiltons Legat (grant)
1988:The Aksel Schiøtz Award
1994:Ingrid Jespersens Legat (grant)
2001:Appointed Berliner Kammersängerin
2005:The Reumert Award as Singer of the Year
2010:Conferred the Royal Order of Knight of the Dannebrog

Performed in the following opera houses:

Germany:
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Bayreuther Festspiele
München
Hamburg
Dresden
Stuttgart
Düsseldorf
Köln
Bonn
Frankfurt
Mannheim
Leipzig

Austria:
Wien
Salzburg

UK:
Covent Garden in London

France:
Opera de Bastille, Opera Nationale de Paris
Opera Garnier in Paris
Aix en Provence
Nice
Strassbourg
Marseille

Switzerland:
Zürich
Geneve

Spain:
Madrid
Barcelona
Bilbao
Oviedo
Sevilla

Israel:
Tel Aviv

Scandinavia:
Stockholm
Oslo
København

Poland:
Warszawa

Hungary:
Budapest

Italy:
La Scala in Milano
Rom
Turin
Venedig
Trieste

USA:
The Metropolitan Opera in New York
Baltimore
San Diego
Los Angeles

Japan:
Tokyo
Yokohama
Otsu

China:
Peking

Australia:
Perth in Australia