Esther took part in many opera productions including the title role
in Carmen, Cherubino in the Marriage of Figaro, Nerone in the
Coronation of Poppea and Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites.
She has sung Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus and Amaranta in Haydn’s
Fedeltá Premiata, la libellule and la tasse chinoise in L’Enfant et
les Sortilèges. Esther sang Métella in Offenbach’s La vie Parisienne
and the Mother Superior in The Sound of Music in the Netherlands and
Belgium.
In Erfurt she sang El Amor Brujo and in Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam
Ravel’s Shéhérazade. Esther Been has given concerts in many
countries, including Russia, Italy, South Africa, Dubai, Singapoer,
Austria and worked with the conductors, Riccardo Chailly, Carlo
Rizzi, Stephen Stubbs, Ingo Metzmacher and Ed Spanjaard.
At present she is coached by Rachel Ann Morgan.Opera Repertoire (roles sung)
Bizet Carmen Carmen, Mercedes
Campra L’Europa Galante La Discorde
Haydn La fedeltá premiata Amaranta
Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel Hänsel
Monteverdi L’Incorononazione di Poppea Nerone
Monteverdi L’Orfeo Euridice
Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro Cherubino
Mozart Cosi fan tutte Dorabella
Offenbach La vie Parisienne Métella
Poulenc Dialogues d Carmélites Blanche
Purcell Dido und Aeneas II.Witch, Dido
Ravel L’Enfant et les sortilèges Libelle, Tasse Chinoise
Rodgers Sound of Music Mother Superior
Rossini Il Cambiale di Matrimonio Clarina
Strauss Die Fledermaus Orlofsky
Studied roles: Komponist/Ariadne auf Naxos,
Charlotte/Werther, Rosina/Barbier von Sevilla,
Sesto/Idomeneo, Jeanne /Jeanne d’Arc,
Octavian/Rosenkavalier
Concert Repertoire
Bach Kantaten 7, 8, 39, 75,111,138,142,148, Passionen
Händel Messiah
Mozart Requiem
De Falla El Amor Brujo
Boddendijk Gardeno
Franck Die drei Töchter Cecrops
Poulenc Le Ball Masqué
Purcell Dido und Aeneas
Ravel Schéhérazade - Concertgebouw Amsterdam
Reich Drumming
Esther Been
and the production 'Tosca eet slakken zonder zout
project'
with Hein Hoogendoorn and Lieve Geuens.
Esther Been
with The Dutch Opera Singers
with Rob van Surksum
and Edwin van Gelder.
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