Olivia Vermeulen
mezzo-soprano
Dutch mezzo-soprano Olivia Vermeulen has established herself in recent years as a versatile soloist of international standing.
Engagements of the past seasons comprise her role debut as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni as well as Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, both on tour with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under René Jacobs. She appeared as a soloist in the frame of Salzburg’s Mozart Week along with Jörg Widmann, and sang Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor under Masaaki Suzuki at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées as well as at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. With the same work, she also gave her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic under Daniel Harding.
She is equally in demand as a performer of contemporary music: in this capacity, she made her debut at the Ruhrtriennale with the world premiere of Philippe Manoury’s Kein Licht and has been invited by the Bregenz Festival to perform the role of Saiko in the world premiere of Thomas Larcher’s Das Jagdgewehr.
Olivia Vermeulen has appeared at festivals such as the Munich Opera Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the RheinVokal Festival, the Musikfest Stuttgart and the Handel Festival in Halle, working with conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe, Iván Fischer, Markus Stenz, Marek Janowski, Andrea Marcon, Reinhard Goebel, Michael Schønwandt, Alessandro de Marchi, Konrad Junghänel, Tomáš Netopil.
