Eva Lind is an Austrian soprano who has an active career in operas, concerts, recitals, and TV programs. Andrew Lamb in Gramophone described her voice as "sheer delight, fresh, crisp, clear, beautifully agile and with superb trills."
Career
Lind was born in Innsbruck, where she started singing as a teenager. While studying philosophy at the University of Vienna she continued her professional training as a singer. Her teachers were Marta Lantieri, Ruthilde Boesch and Wilma Lipp. At the age of 19, she made her professional debut as Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Vienna State Opera. and starred as Lucia in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in Basel. These two events marked the beginning of an international career which so far has allowed her to appear on the world's major opera and concert stages such as New York, Milan, Berlin, Munich, London, Madrid, Zurich, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Tokyo, Osaka and Shanghai. She also sang at the festivals of Salzburg, Arena di Verona, Glyndebourne, Schleswig-Holstein. She has worked with conductors Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Colin Davis, Kurt Masur, Bernard Haitink, René Jacobs, André Previn and Yehudi Menuhin. Lind appears extensively on stage performing soprano roles like Konstanze, Gilda, Juliette, Amina, Rosalinde, Violetta and many more. Besides opera, Lind's repertoire embraces a wide range of art songs by composers such as Mozart, Schubert, R. Strauss, Brahms, Wolf, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Mahler, Berg, [Claude Debussy|Debussy, Satie, Fauré, and others. She went on a concert tour through Japan with members of the Vienna Philharmonic in January 2010 and has given a solo recital at Milan's Teatro Dal Verme on 5 May 2010. In July 2010, she sang Gilda in Rigoletto at the Opera Festival in Solothurn. From 27 December 2010, until 6 January 2011, she toured China together with the Berliner Symphoniker. Lind sang her first Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci in July 2012 at the Schlossfestspiele Schwerin. In March/April 2014 she performed in China on a tour with solo recitals together with Chinese pianist Xin Sui. Eva Lind regularly appears on German TV where she hosts various music programs. From 2003 to the program's end in 2008, she co-hosted ARD's Saturday night music program Straße der Lieder with choral conductor Gotthilf Fischer.
