Botschaft des Ridicolas
On Friday 22 April the album ”Botschaft des Ridicolas” will be released. Pianist Kenneth Karlsson and I perform music by Rolf Wallin, Jon Øyvind Ness, and Helmut Lachanmann. You can preorder and buy the album here or listen digitally here…
I am Orfeo? – Monteverdi's and Striggio's opera performed by one singer and three musicians.
When Monteverdi’s opera about the singing half-god premiered in 1607 all roles were sung by men. Here one woman becomes them all. (or do they become her?) Inside Orfeo ”Now, when I’ve embodied Orfeo so many…
Concluding an Artistic Research Project?
This is the last chapter - the Conclusion - in my Reflection, my thesis, my reflective thesis, The Otherness of the self". If you want to read it in context (and get all the footnotes), go here: https://www.researchcatalogue.net I've always…
Singing with Others!(finally)
During the last year, the Lockdown, many musical friends of mine have shared videos of themselves singing or playing, together with their own voice and/or instruments. There are numerous apps (" acapella" being one of them) where you can record…
When music is scary, have a coffee?
This is a text I wrote in 2015 when I started paying attention to certain situations that triggered my singing nerves to sing against me. I realise, when I write these posts, that many of them are about what I’ve learned and what I now…
Breath in? Breath out?
Sometimes singing is the most difficult thing I know. What once used to be the most natural thing, can turn into something you’re afraid of. And breathing. Breathing is so complicated. When you think about it. And when you don’t think about it,…
The Otherness of the self - a presentation in five acts.
This is an english translation of the presentation of my Artistic Research Project "The Otherness of the Self - how to curate a 17th century opera and sing all the roles yourself." The Public Defence - Monday, October 12, 2020 - was streamed, and…
Samtal med en död sångerska
Samtal med Anna Renzi tisdag 31/10-2017 Anna Renzi: Varför mig? Elisabeth: För att du är en sån som sådana som jag känner nån slags band till. Du är liksom idéen om urbarocksopranen. Den som var beundrad för sin sceniska närvaro, sin magiska kraft i…
The otherness of the self - artistic research
Since 2016 I am a very proud artistic research fellow at the Norwegian academy of music. In my research project I will look into the meaning of roles. What the role is and what it can become; what it does with me as a singer and performer when I…
Hallelujah in Belgium…?
We are all humans of this world, we all desire the same things: love, happiness and to be understood for who we are. It shouldn’t be so difficult to understand one another, especially not between two countries very close to each other, like for…