Beate Mordal
Season 2020/21 soprano Beate Mordal is Artist-in-Residence here at Bergen National Opera.
Beate Mordal is a Norwegian coloratura soprano from Molde. She finished her education at the Royal Danish Opera Academy in Copenhagen in 2015. The same year she sang her debut as Papagena in The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) at the Royal Danish Opera. At the Paris Opera Competition in January 2017, she was one of the finalists. The same period she was also singing her Pamina debut in Norway for Opera Østfold and the same role at Longborough Festival Opera.
Summer 2018 she sang sing Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. The season 2018/19 she played Micaela in our chamber version of Carmen on tour.
Thanks to support from the Grieg Foundation, Beate Mordal is Artist-in-Residence 2019/2020 at Bergen National Opera. March 2020 she was to sing Servilia in our La clemenza di Tito by Mozart, but due to Covid-19 all four performances were cancelled.
Autumn 2020 she plans to make her house debut at Stockholm Royal Opera as Marie in Prima Donna by Rufus Wainwright, and spring 2021 she will be Maria in West Side Story at the Royal Danish Theatre (Det Kongelige Teater) in Copenhagen.
Hear Beate Mordal sing Servilia's aria, S’altro che lagrime (If you do nothing for him
but shed tears) from La clemenza di Tito:
