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Mezzo soprano Karin Lovelius' talent covers a wide area. She can change from intimate chamber play with a fine sense of timing and comedy to filling a dramatic role on a big stage.
After finishing the two years course at Opera Studio 67 she continued her studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki where she took her Master's degree in opera in 2001. She has since then pursued her education with Derek Barnes and David Harper in London and with Jeffrey Goldberg from the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She has also participated in master classes with Birgitta Svendén, Neil Mackie and Gustav Djupsjöbacka.
Since 2010 Karin is a member of the Leipzig Oper ensemble where she has sung roles such as Magdalene in Die Meistersinger, Klytämnestra in Ifigenie in Aulis, Mother in Hänsel und Gretel and alto in Deutsches Miserere by Brecht/ Dessau. In spring 2011 she is cover for Fricka in a consert version of Die Walküre where she also sings Grimgerde. Later she will perform some of Alma Mahlers songs.
Season 2011/2012 includes roles such as Annina in Der Rosenkavalier, Begbick in Mahagonny and the gamekeeper's wife in The cunning little vixen.
Karin has a particular interest in contemporary music and after winning second prize in the international competition Center for Contemporary Opera, she made her debut in Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall in 2004. During the Musica Nova festival in Helsinki she sang The Duchess in Thomas Adés opera Powder her face. She has also sung Gertrud in Ash Wednesday ( touring Sweden 2003), Third Lady in Zauberflöte at Ystadsoperan and worked with directors like Ralf Långbacka in MacBeth (La Dama)at the Savonlinna Opera Festival/Dalhalla and with Sir Jonathan Miller in Opera Islands' La Traviata (Flora).
In March 2011 Karin is singing Reine Jönssons new piece for mezzo and orchesrta with MSO in Sweden. The consert will be recorded for the Swedish Radio.
In 07/08 Karin sang Flosshilde in Staffan Valdemar Holms production of Götterdämmerung and Das Rheingold as well as Siegrune in Die Walküre at the Stockholm Opera where she is reinvited for the season 08/09. In 2009 she made her debut at Folkoperan in Stockholm with Mother in Menottis The Consul.She was also cover in Daniel Börtz opera Goya at Gothenburg opera ( Leocadia Weiss and Duchess of Osuna) and sang Frugola in IltTabarro at Opersa på Skäret, www.operapaskaret.se. In 2009 Karin also sang Rossweisse in Die Walküre at Stockholm Opera and in 2010 Lucia in La Gazza Ladra at Läckö Slott.
Karin also participates in various chamber music projects. She regularly performs together with guitarist Joakim Lundström and pianist Terés Löf. In 06/07 she sang Mouche in Harry's bar, a musical theatre piece about the poet Heinrich Heine ( Stockholm City Theatre and Malmö Art song gala). She has also recorded Lieder for the Swedish Radio. Together with Spanish dancer Gabriela Gutarra she tours with Español, a program which includes El Amor Brujo, extract from Carmen and Spanish Art songs and has worked with orchestras such as Gothenburg, Gotland and Linköping Wind Orchestra as well as Sami Sinfonietta.