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Mette Ejsing - Mezzosoprano

Danish contralto Mette Ejsing studied in Odense and Copenhagen with Professor Kirsten Buhl Møller and Kammersängerin Ingrid Bjoner. Directly after her debut in 1991 she joined the ensemble at the Staatsoper Stuttgart on a three-year contract, singing a.o. The Countess in Pique Dame, Amelfa in The Golden Cockerel and the first of many Rheingold-Erda's. In 1994 she moved on to Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin on another three-year contract. Here she sang Erda and First Norne in the new Barenboim/Kupfer Ring, First maid in Elektra, Anina in Rosenkavalier, Mary in Flying Dutchman, 3rd Lady in Magic Flute and Grandma Buryja in Jenufa.

In 1994 Mette Ejsing had her debut in Bayreuth singing Schwertleite in Die Walküre (J. Levine) as well as the contralto-solo in Parsifal, and in the new Jürgen Flimm- Ring from 2000 she sang Erda and First Norne with G. Sinopoli and Adam Fischer with great personal success with the audience as well as the press. These two roles have also taken her to La Scala (R. Muti), Wiener Staatsoper ( D. Runnicles, H. Wallat, S. Young), Munich (Z. Mehta, P. Schneider), as well as to Rome, Bilbao, Trieste, Karlsruhe, Sydney, Helsinki, Aarhus, Stockholm, Lyon, Tokyo, Stuttgart, Copenhagen and also to Toronto for the Ring-cycles opening the new operahouse.

At the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen she also sang the Which of Endor in Carl Nielsen's Saul and David, Mrs. Sedley in Peter Grimes, Mrs. Quickly in Falstaff and 3 Lady in Magic Flute, and at Den Jyske Opera in Aarhus she gave her celebrated debut as Klytaemnestra in Elektra – now a favorite-role she also performed in Napoli, Oviedo (Max Valdez), at La Scala (S. Bychkov) and La Fenice ( E. Inbal) as well as Staatsoper Berlin ( S. Weigle, M. Boder) – and will sing in Copenhagen in 2010. Mette Ejsing has guested at La Monnaie in Bruxelles (Rosenkavalier/Pappano), Napoli (Königskinder/Tate), Atlanta (Falstaff/F. Scott), Deutsche Oper Berlin (Rheingold), La Scala (Jenufa /L. Königs – she will also sing the Buryja in Jenufa in Madrid in 2009) – and many other international operahouses.

Mette Ejsing is also established on the concertpodium – both with pianorecitals as well as with orchestraconcerts - her engagements have included a broad spectre such as The Messiah, Beethoven's IX, Schumann's Faustscenes, Mahler's II and III Symphony, Mussorgskij's Songs and Dances of Death and Sunless, Prokofiev's Nevskij-Cantata, Schostakovich's Marina Tsvetaeva- Songs, Schnittke's Faust-Cantata, Maw's Scenes ans Arias and Dallapiccola's Job, and she has worked with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Mtsislav Rostropovich, Valerij Gergiev, Yuri Ahronovich, Gary Bertini, Dennis Russell Davies, Marek Janowskij, Neeme Järvi, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Eri Klas, Pinchas Steinberg, Jeffrey Tate, Jerzy Semkov, Eliahu Inbal, Roger Norrington and Michael Schønwandt.

Among the works written specifically for Mette Ejsing are Poul Ruder's City in the Sea (Edgar Allen Poe – also on CD) and Braxton Blake's Dorothy Parker Songs. Her lied-repertoire spanns from Russian songs over German late romantic to Hanns Eisler and Kurt Weill.

Mette Ejsing has received several prestigious awards, including the Prize of Honor from the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Nielsen Foundation, the Aksel Schiøtz-prize, Gladsaxe Music-award and the Danish Music Critics Award.

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