Fredrika Brillembourg
Contessa di Coigny/ Madelon (mezzo-soprano)
Fredrika Brillembourg, who was born in New York, was an ensemble member at Bremen Theatre in the years 1995–2001, where she sang several lead roles. Recently she made her debut as Amneris in Aida (Stuttgart State Theatre), Adalgisa in Norma (Croatian National Opera, Zagreb), Klementia in Hindemith's Sancta Susanna (Bard Festival), 1st Norn and Flosshilde in Götterdämmerung (concert performance at Washington National Opera) and Jitsuko Honda in Toshio Hosokawa's Hanjo (Tokyo, MITO Settembre, La Monnaie and De Nederlandse Opera). Beyond that her repertoire includes the following roles: Carmen, Herodias (Salome), Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust), Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde), Charlotte (Werther), Mescalina (Le Grand Macabre by György Ligeti) and Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier). She performs regularly in Europe and the USA, for example in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dresden, Geneva, Frankfurt, Brussels, Venice, New York, Seattle and Washington D.C. She has sung with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Youth Orchestra of the Americas, as well as the conductors and stage directors A. Pappano, K. Nagano, D. Harding, M. Honneck, I. Metzmacher, C. Loy, W. Decker, R. Carsen and M. Kusej among others. Her discography features Madame Butterfly (Suzuki), Bach's B minor Mass, Stravinsky's Les Noces conducted by S. Cambreling and Verdi's Missa da Requiem conducted by Plácido Domingo.
