Soloist - Baritone
Tom Erik Lie
Zitat einfügen oder Element löschenI just wandered through all the voice types: from soprano to alto, then into tenor, and ultimately
baritone. And that’s where I stayed.
Since he was 9 years old, Tom Erik Lie knew that he wanted to be an opera singer. The catalyst for this realisation was also his debut on an opera stage: in the children’s choir in Tosca at the Oslo Opera House. »I was so fascinated that it never let me go«, he recalls. At 9 years of age, he went of his own accord to join the Norwegian Broadcasting Boys’ Choir, where his special gift didn’t go unnoticed for long. He was quickly entrusted with minor solo parts. And he didn’t even have to interrupt the solid start to his singing career while his voice was breaking: »I just wandered through all the voice types: from soprano to alto, then into tenor, and ultimately baritone. And that’s where I stayed«, he says with a laugh.
At 17, he took his first private singing lessons, and nobody was surprised when he was accepted to study singing at the conservatorium in Oslo after graduating from high school. Upon completing his studies, he received a place in the Opera Studio of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. And from that point, one thing led to another: after his first engagement in Gelsenkirchen came Oper Leipzig, with the Artistic Director Udo Zimmermann then taking him along to the Deutsche Oper Berlin. A guest role – as Edwin in Die Csárdásfürstin – then brought him to the Ensemble of the Komische Oper Berlin.
»Nowadays, Berlin has become my home«, concedes Tom Erik Lie. »I feel really at home here. Of course I miss the breathtaking nature of my homeland: the mountains running straight down to the ocean.« A hut in Norway on the coast, where the mountains meet the sea – that would be one of Tom Erik Lie’s dreams that he hasn’t yet ticked off. »A few summers’ ago I spent part of my holiday near the city of Bergen in a hut on a small island. We went fishing in a boat: mackerel, cod, pollock. Straight from the rod into our mouths, so to speak. A dream!«
In the ensemble of the Komische
Oper Berlin since 2004. Named a
Berlin Kammersänger in 2022.
ORIGINALLY FROM
Oslo / Norway
STUDIES
Konservatorium und Staatliche Opernhochschule Oslo
Oper Berlin since 2004. Named a
Berlin Kammersänger in 2022.
ORIGINALLY FROM
Oslo / Norway
STUDIES
Konservatorium und Staatliche Opernhochschule Oslo
PRIZES
»Ingrid-Bjoner-Stipendium für junge Sänger« 1995. Von der Zeitschrift Opernwelt 1996 nominiert als »Nachwuchskünstler des Jahres«.
IMPORTANT CONDUCTORS
Christian Thielemann
Kirill Petrenko
Marcello Viotti
André Previn
Michail Jurowski
Vladimir Jurowski
Friedeman Layer
Paolo Carignani
IMPORTANT DIRECTORS
Barrie Kosky
Peter Konwitschny
Hans Neuenfels
Andreas Homoki
Christof Loy
Achim Freyer
Stefan Herheim
Calixto Bieito
Kasper Holten
IMPORTANT PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen
Oper Leipzig
Deutsche Oper Berlin
IMPORTANT PARTS AT THE KOMISCHE OPER BERLINTitelpartien in Jewgeni Onegin und Don Giovanni
Sixtus Beckmesser (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)
Papageno (Die Zauberflöte)
Edwin (Die Csárdásfürstin)
Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus)
Hoffmann 2 (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
Marcel (La Bohème)
Graf Almaviva (Die Hochzeit des Figaro)
Georges Germont (La Traviata)
Amme (Die Krönung der Poppea)
Gevatter (Der Jahrmarkt von Sorotschinzi)
Mr. Kallenbach (Satyagraha)
Popolani (Blaubart)
Oberst Pickering (My Fair Lady)
Herr von Faninal (Der Rosenkavalier)
Dr. Pangloss/Voltaire(Candide)
Der Blechmann (Der Zauberer von Oz)
Hauptmann (The Bassarids)
Papageno (Die Zaubermelodika)
Bill (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny)
ELSEWHERE
Frère Léon (St. François d’Assise)
Guglielmo (Così fan tutte)
Siegfried (Genoveva)
Wolfram v. Eschenbach (Tannhäuser)
Sharpless (Madama Butterfly)
Albert (Werther)
Schaunard (La Bohème) an Häusern wie Staatsoper Hannover, Aalto-Musiktheater Essen, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Theater Bonn, Semperoper Dresden, Königliche Oper Kopenhagen, Norwegische Oper Oslo, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino