Elisabeth Teige has established herself as one of the most interesting young dramatic sopranos of her generation. She is known for her warm, beautiful timbre, intuitive musicality and compelling stage presence.

One of her signature roles is Senta in Richard Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer, which she debuted at the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet in Oslo, followed by productions at the Frankfurt Opera, the Bergen National Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the National Theater Prague, and most recently in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s acclaimed new production in her debut season at the 2022 Bayreuth Festival under the baton of Oksana Lyniv. Other roles in Bayreuth that season were Gutrune (Götterdämmerung) and Freia (Das Rheingold). She returned to Bayreuth in 2023 as Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) and Senta and in 2024 again as Elisabeth and Senta.

In the current season, Elisabeth Teige will give her house debuts at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples as Chrysothemis (Elektra) and at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona as Elsa in Katharina Wagner’s new production of Lohengrin. Furthermore, she reprises the roles of Elisabeth and Venus (Tannhäuser) at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Leonore in Beethoven’s Fidelio at the International May Festival in Wiesbaden, Tosca at the Norwegian National Opera, and Turandot at the Semperoper Dresden. On the concert stage, she appears with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra in a concert version of Tristan und Isolde, with the Vienna Symphony under Philippe Jordan in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, in a gala concert with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg under Pietari Inkinen, and at the Opéra de Toulon performing Strauss’s Four Last Songs.

Highlights of recent seasons include her debuts as Leonore at the Bavarian State Opera Munich, Hamburg State Opera, National Theatre Prague, and Semperoper Dresden; as the Empress (Die Frau ohne Schatten) in Toulouse; as Turandot at the Opéra national du Rhin; and as Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) at the Munich Opera Festival. She is a regular guest at Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she has performed roles such as Elisabeth, Venus (Tannhäuser), Senta, Sieglinde, and Brünnhilde (Siegfried), as well as Irene in Wagner’s Rienzi and Turandot. Teige has a long-standing relationship with the Norwegian National Opera since her time in their Young Artists Program and has returned to perform roles such as Chrysothemis, Cio-Cio-San in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Leonore, and Senta. She also made her role debut as Tosca at the National Theatre Mannheim, where she performed Cio-Cio-San, Leonore, and gave an early impression as Brünnhilde in 2018/19 in Loriot’s Der Ring an einem Abend.

She has worked with conductors such as Ádám Fischer, Kent Nagano, Oksana Lyniv, Cornelius Meister, Sir Donald Runnicles, Ulf Schirmer, Michael Balke, Oleg Caetani, John Fiore, Anton Grischanin, Julia Jones, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Otto Tausk, Pierre-André Valade, Alexander Soddy, Evan Rogister, Benjamin Reiners, Sebastian Weigle and others.

Ádám Fischer, Kent Nagano, Oksana Lyniv, Nathalie Stutzmann, Cornelius Meister, Sir Donald Runnicles, Ulf Schirmer, Oleg Caetani, John Fiore, Anton Grishanin, Julia Jones, Petr Popelka, Pietari Inkinen, Domingo Hindoyan, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Otto Tausk, Pierre-André Valade, Alexander Soddy, Evan Rogister, Constantin Trinks, Benjamin Reiners, Sebastian Weigle, and others.

Elisabeth Teige was born and raised in Ålesund, Norway. She studied voice at the Trondheim Music Conservatory and at the National Opera Academy in Oslo.