Biography
Elsa Dreisig, a soprano whose profile on leading operatic stages had risen sharply, issued her debut recording Miroir(s) in 2018 to widespread notice. A student of Daniel Barenboim, she had already drawn interest from Plácido Domingo and other leading figures in the opera world.
Born in Paris on May 29, 1991, to Danish parents who both sang professionally, Dreisig grew up with family support for her vocal ambitions. As a child she sang in the children’s choirs of the Royal Opera of Wallonia in Liège and the Opéra National de Lyon. She later studied at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris before continuing at the Leipzig Graduate School of Music and Theater under Valérie Guillorit, Regina Werner, and Lionel Sarrazin.
While still a Leipzig student in 2014, she made her stage debut in Lortzing’s Der Wildschütz, won the Neue Stimmen competition, and appeared in a Paris production of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with Natalie Dessay. The 2015-2016 season brought her into Daniel Barenboim’s Opera Studio at the Berlin Staatsoper, where she sang Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and she also won Plácido Domingo’s Concours Operalia that year.
These successes soon led to major engagements outside her training institutions. In 2017 she performed Musetta in Puccini’s La bohème at the Zurich Opera and Micaëla at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. During the 2017-2018 season she made her Paris opera debuts, repeating Pamina and adding Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and she earned strong reviews for her appearance with the Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle in Haydn’s The Creation. That same season she joined the Berlin Staatsoper ensemble, taking on several roles and singing in the company’s concert presentation of Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle.
Warner Classics signed the soprano, whose light voice and stage presence stood out, and released Miroir(s) in fall 2018; the recital juxtaposed different composers’ portrayals of the same or closely related characters. She rejoined Barenboim that year for concerts with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. In 2019 she created the role of Natascha in the world premiere of Beat Furrer’s Violetter Schnee. The recital album Morgen appeared on Warner Classics/Erato in 2020, and the following year she was heard as Sifare on Marc Minkowski’s recording of Mozart’s Mitridate, re di Ponto, K. 87. An album of Mozart arias from Dreisig was scheduled for release in 2022.
Born in Paris on May 29, 1991, to Danish parents who both sang professionally, Dreisig grew up with family support for her vocal ambitions. As a child she sang in the children’s choirs of the Royal Opera of Wallonia in Liège and the Opéra National de Lyon. She later studied at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris before continuing at the Leipzig Graduate School of Music and Theater under Valérie Guillorit, Regina Werner, and Lionel Sarrazin.
While still a Leipzig student in 2014, she made her stage debut in Lortzing’s Der Wildschütz, won the Neue Stimmen competition, and appeared in a Paris production of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with Natalie Dessay. The 2015-2016 season brought her into Daniel Barenboim’s Opera Studio at the Berlin Staatsoper, where she sang Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and she also won Plácido Domingo’s Concours Operalia that year.
These successes soon led to major engagements outside her training institutions. In 2017 she performed Musetta in Puccini’s La bohème at the Zurich Opera and Micaëla at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. During the 2017-2018 season she made her Paris opera debuts, repeating Pamina and adding Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and she earned strong reviews for her appearance with the Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle in Haydn’s The Creation. That same season she joined the Berlin Staatsoper ensemble, taking on several roles and singing in the company’s concert presentation of Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle.
Warner Classics signed the soprano, whose light voice and stage presence stood out, and released Miroir(s) in fall 2018; the recital juxtaposed different composers’ portrayals of the same or closely related characters. She rejoined Barenboim that year for concerts with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. In 2019 she created the role of Natascha in the world premiere of Beat Furrer’s Violetter Schnee. The recital album Morgen appeared on Warner Classics/Erato in 2020, and the following year she was heard as Sifare on Marc Minkowski’s recording of Mozart’s Mitridate, re di Ponto, K. 87. An album of Mozart arias from Dreisig was scheduled for release in 2022.
Albums
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30
2024
Mozart x 3
2022
Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto
2021
Morgen
2020
The Mathilde Album
2019
Miroirs
2018
Singles
Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto, K. 87, Act 1: "Se di lauri il crine adorno"
2021
Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto, K. 87, Act 1: "Al destin, che la minaccia"
2021
Berlioz: Le Dépit de la bergère, H. 7
2019
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