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Soloist - Mezzo-Soprano

Caren van Oijen

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The most important thing in singing is communication.
You stand on the stage to communicate something.
Caren van Oijen has never let herself be intimidated by iron curtains. Europe was still divided into East and West as the young Dutchwoman was brought to the Komische Oper Berlin by Harry Kupfer in 1987. »It was an exciting time.« She still gets goosebumps thinking about a visit to see a show in the Semperoper Dresden: Fidelo, directed by Christine Mielitz – one week before the wall fell. »The prisoners’ choir sang behind barbed wire, and everyone understood the subtext. Things were simmering – and the opera was right at the centre of it all.«

In the Ensemble of the Komische Oper
Berlin since 2003. A member of the Opera Studio
of the Komische Oper Berlin from 1987, and until
2003 as a permanent guest, since 2015 vocal coach
in the Opera Studio. Named a Berlin Kammersängerin
in 2022.

HOMELAND
Veldhoven/Netherlands