ABOUT
Beate Mordal has performed in renowned opera houses including Covent Garden, San Francisco Opera, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Opéra Comique, Opéra National du Rhin, The Royal Danish Opera, and The Norwegian Opera. In the upcoming season, she will make her debut at The Metropolitan Opera, Teatro San Carlo, and Tiroler Festspiele.
Beate, a lyric coloratura soprano from Molde, Norway, began her career as a jazz singer before transitioning to the classical and opera stage. Her diverse repertoire includes contemporary music, jazz, musicals, opera, and songs.
Her exciting opera career began in 2015 as Papagena at The Royal Danish Opera. The following summer she debuted at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence where she received the prestigious “Laureate of the Festival d’Aix-En-Provence.”
Since then, Beate has consistently performed at this festival in operas such as Lena in Svadba (2016-2017) by Ana sokolovic, Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos (2018) and in two critically acclaimed world premiere’s: Innocence by Kaija Saariaho (2021) and; Picture A Day Like This (2023) by Sir George Benjamin.
In the Summer of 2024, Beate portrayed Gudrun in the historical Norwegian musical “Spelet om Heilag Olav” at Stiklestad. A role and venue of immense prestige in Norway. She will return to this iconic role again in 2025.
She debuted at The Royal Danish Opera singing Eileen in Bernsteins “A wonderful Town,” and later debuted with same role at The Norwegian Opera and ballet.
Beate was twice asked to sing Maria in West Side Story at The Royal Danish Opera. The pandemic in 2020 led to its cancellation, and Beate couldn’t sing in the rescheudled performances due to imminent arrrival of her baby daughter!
Beate has frequently performed with Bergen National Opera, initially as Artist in Residence. In 2021 Beate jumped in to sing Vitellia in Clemenza di Tito under the baton of Ed Gardner, a performance that was livestreamed to critical acclaim! In 2022, she returned as Valencienne in The Merry Widow 2.0 directed by Kasper Holten.
Beate is an accomplished recording artist with several CDs to her name. Beate has recorded baroque music, contemporary and Jazz.