Biography

Starting in the 2023/24 season, Brimberg returns to La Monnaie as Brünnhilde Die

Walküre, also performing that role in Siegfried and Götterdämmerung the following

season to complete the new production of the complete Ring Cycle

that will be conducted by music director Alain Altinoglu. 

Elsewhere in 23/24, Brimberg’s engagements include her role debut as Katerina Ismailowa Lady Macbeth

of Mtsensk for Oper Leipzig. In 2022/23, Brimberg sang Leonore Fidelio at the

Deutsche Oper Berlin, Senta Der fliegende Holländer for Oper Köln and a concert of

Vier letzte Lieder with the Orchestre national de Lille.

Other recent highlights include: title roles Elektra and Turandot in Geneva; Turandot at

the Teatro Regio Turin; Brünnhilde Siegfried for Göteborg Opera; her first Isolde

Tristan und Isolde in a new production for Oper Köln; Eva in Sebastian Fagerlund’s

new opera Höstsonaten for Finnish National Opera; Senta at the Deutsche Oper

Berlin, Theater an der Wien, Oper Köln, Staatsoper Hamburg, Teatro Real Madrid and

in concert with Minkowski (recorded by Naïve); Brünnhilde Die Walküre for Royal

Swedish Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Royal Swedish Opera and Opéra National de

Bordeaux. She sang the title role of Salomé for Oper Köln (new Ted Huffman

production), Teatro Verdi Trieste and Göteborg Opera, Elsa Lohengrin at La Monnaie,

the title role Tosca for Oper Köln, Göteborg Opera and Finnish National Opera, title

role Aida for Malmö Opera and Elektra for L’opéra National de Bordeaux.

Ingela Brimberg made her La Monnaie performing Valentine in a production of Les

Huguenots that was conducted by Marc Minkowski and named the best production of

year 2011 in Opernwelt, after which she debuted for Royal Swedish Opera as Ellen

Orford Peter Grimes in during the spring of 2013. She also sang Konstanze Die

Entführung aus dem Serail, Amelia Un ballo in Maschera and Donna Anna Don

Giovanni with Folkoperan Stockholm, the title roles of Jenufa (NorrlandsOperan) and

Katja Kabanova (Göteborg Opera), Elettra Idomeneo for the Opéra de Lyon and

Göteborg Opera, Lady Macbeth in Verdi Macbeth for Toulon Opera, Elektra in a

spectacular production by La Fura dels Baus in Umeå (European Capital of Culture),

released on DVD (Unitel Classica) and the title role Manon Lescaut for the Danish

National Opera. She has appeared in concert with the Orchestre National de Lille (Vier

Letzte Lieder), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Verbier Festival, Opéra de

Rouen Normandie and Trondheim Symphony Orchestra.