Donna Ellen
Donna Ellen is from Canada, and studied voice there at Wilfrid Laurier University. She sang at Canada Opera Piccola for two seasons before moving to the Zurich Opera Studio. In 1987 she was engaged at the Landestheater Linz, where her performances included the Queen of the Night (»The Magic Flute«), Blonde (»Die Entführung aus dem Serail«), Zerlina (»Don Giovanni«) and the world première of Balduin Sulzer’s »Proteus«. Other appearances included Stuttgart, Geneva, Berlin, Bad Ischl, the Theater an der Wien, and the Wiener Musikverein and the Konzerthaus. In 2004 she débuted at the Volksoper Wien. Her début at the Wiener Staatsoper, where she is now a member of the ensemble, was in 2003 as Helmwige (»Die Walküre«). Subsequent roles include Marzellina (»Il barbiere di Siviglia«), Axinja (»Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District«), Leitmetzerin (»Der Rosenkavalier«), Marquise de Berkenfield (»La Fille du régiment«), Mrs Sedley (»Peter Grimes«), Annina (»La traviata«), Curra (»La forza del destino«), Brünnhilde (»Nibelungenring für Kinder«), Berta (»Pünktchen und Anton«), Marcellina (»Le nozze di Figaro«), Fekluša (»Kátja Kabanová«), Kartenaufschlägerin (»Arabella«), Overseer (»Elektra«), Gertrud (»Hansel and Gretel«), and Giovanna (»Rigoletto«).
Performances with Donna Ellen