Beate Mordal is a Norwegian lyric coloratura soprano who made her debut as Papagena in Mozart’s Magic Flute at The Royal Danish Opera in 2015 and in the contemporary opera SVADBA at Festival Aix-en-Provence. She has since then worked as an opera- and concert singer mainly in France, England, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Her latest roles include Eileen in Wonderful Town by Bernstein (2019 and 2022), Valencienne in Die Lustige Witwe by Lehar (2022), Lily in Innocence by Kaija Saariaho (premiered in Aix-en-Provence in 2021), Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito (2021) and Marie in Rufus Wainwright’s Primadonna (2020). Mordal has performed with the major Nordic orchestras, and with the London Symphony Orchestra at Festival Aix-en-Provence in “l’amour de loin” by Saariaho (2021). Her discography includes Brorson-psalms with Jakob Bloch (2019), the album Orpheus Uncut with Orkester Nord and Martin Wahlberg in 2021, and an album with Koelner Akademi and Michael A. Willens, presenting music by Ernst Wilhelmina Wolf (2022). Mordal was Artist-in-Residence 2019/2020 at Bergen National Opera. Artist photos: Trond Gudevold, Monika Kolstad, Anita Grønland & Erik Birkeland