Eir Inderhaug
Operasinger Eir Inderhaug grew up in Stavanger in Norway. She received her education at The Rogaland Music Academy, The Opera Academy in Copenhagen and at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. She started her career when she won the talent show Talentiaden. Since then she has performed with most Norwegian symphony orchestras, the Norwegian Concert Institute, and the State Touring Theatre. In 1999 she debuts at The Danish Royal Theater in Copenhagen as Barbarina in Die Hochzeit des Figaro. The same year she sings the Giulia in Rossini's La scala di seta at Malmö Music Theater. 2002 and 2003 Eir Inderhaug is engaged at the Staatstheater Nürnberg in Germany where she performs roles like Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte and Olympia in Hoffmanns Erzählungen.
2003 to 2005 Eir Inderhaug is part of the Ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. There she sings a number of roles like Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serrail and Ännchen in Der Freischütz. In the following years she performs at the Trøndelag Theater, Trondheim, the Göteborgsoperan, Göteborg and at the Komischen Oper Berlin, amongst others as Fiakermilli in Arabella by Richard Strauss. 2008 Inderhaug sings the Autonoe in Die Bassariden by Hans Werner Henze at the Bayerischen Staatsoper in Munich. In 2013 she sings the Venus / Gepopo in Le Grande Macabre by György Ligeti at the Komische Oper Berlin.
Next to classical Roles like Adele in Die Fledermaus and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte Inderhaug has performed in modern compositions as in Teskjekjerringa (The Teaspoon Lady) after a childrens book by Alf Prøysen and has sung Lucie in the annual performance of the midnight opera Olav Engelbrektsson in Trondheim.
Eir Inderhaug has contributed on several CD recordings among others Paul Okkenhaug Songs Eg veit ei lita jente. In 2003 she was selected as Norwegian Concert Institutes Intro Musician. In 2001 she received the Shellprisen and the same follow-up scholarship award in 2002 and in 2006 the Stiklestad Award. She also regularly participates in Norwegian music festivals, for example the Risør Chamber Music Festival.
During recent years Eir Inderhaug has mostly performed in Scandinavia and has focused on interpreting local repertoire. Performing roles in the Danish opera Belisa by Paol Rovsing Olson and Gudrun in Spelet om Heilage Olav (Stiklestadtspelet / The St Olav Drama) by Paul Okkenhaug as well as Solveig in Peer Gynt and as interpreter of Haugtussa, a song cycle by Grieg, Inderhaug has become well known to a broad audience.