News & Reviews
JUNE 2023
DEBUT AS AUNTIE IN
PETER GRIMES
I got to sing yet another Herodias and this time with the wonderful tenor Brenden Gunnell. Peter Korfmacher in the LVZ was still thrilled:
"Karin Lovelius war 2017 bereits die vollkommende Herodias, stimmlich und szenisch, und ist es heute"
March 2023
MY NEW HERODES
May 2022
BERGEN INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL
February 2022
HERODIAS WITH STAGE DIRECTOR CHRISTOF LOY
AT HELSINKI OPERA
December 2021
DEBUT AS KABANICHA AT KOMISCHE OPER IN BERLIN
Some job offers you cant turn down. I was on my way from IKEA when my agent called and asked if I could jump in as Kabanicha that evening.
I had not yet sung it but was learning it. After four hours of coaching I turned on the lights on the music stand and started to sing.
Summer 2020 I sat down with a reporter to talk about how I ended up being an opera singer and what drives me as an artist. It started with a bachelor in marketing and economics.
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February 2020
ERDA IN SIEGFRIED WITH
BELGRADE PHILARMONIC ORCHESTRA
A week after my debut as Erda at Oper Leipzig I got a call to jump in with Belgrade philarmonic orchestra and conductor Gabriel Feltz.
Hard at work with Wotan in the picture.
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January 2020
AN ERDA WITH DIGNITY
AND A MYSTICAL SOUND
Karin Lovelius makes her role debut as Erda with dignity and an almost mysical sound in dialogue with Der Wanderer.
A jewel in the production.
TO THE REVIEW
It started as an exchange between australian and swedish musicians and developed into a project about climate change. The newly founded Ensemble Mykorrhiza commissioned two pieces for a series of concerts from australian composer Andrew Ford and swedish composer Emmy LIndström;
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June 2017
A HERODIAS FULL OF HATE AND ANXIETY
You cant sing or act any better than this; the way Michael Weinius as Herodes and Karin Lovelius as Herodias fills every gesture, every note, every look and every step with hate, cynicism, greed and anxiety and contempt for mankind in a preoccupied self. It is music theatre at the peak of what is possible because their art of expression gives the music and the theatre equal weight
Peter Korfmacher, LVZ 2017
