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…
Vad jag tänker på när jag tänker på det jag gör.
Tankar, känslor, som hela The otherness...."-arbetet egentligen bygger på. Själva idéen till projektet - L’Orfeo med mig själv i alla roller!!! - var en sådan som kom som ett galet infall en kväll efter några glas vin. Ett infall som gjorde mig…
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…
SCHUMANN!!!
I'll say nothing. Watch what happens when four musicians say Yes to music and No to "rules". I give you: Ensemble Odd Size [iframe id="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4IDiMQetAsE"]
To sing music by dead people. And alive.
As a classical singer I perform lots and lots of music by dead people. One disadvantage though of singing the music by composers who stopped living is that you can’t ask them what they really meant, how they wanted it sound, who they wrote it for or…