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Caroline Olava Halvorsen

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Summer 2023 Caroline Olava debuted with the demanding role of Eurydice in Offenbach´s Orpheus aux Enfers with Berlin Opera Academy. Few weeks later started rehearsals for La Traviata where she debuted with Annina in October 2023 at Neue Studiobuhne MDW. 

Summer 2022 she debuted with Pamina in Die Zauberflöte in Berlin, with well-known Berlin Opera Academy (directed by Alan E. Hicks, conducted by Matthew Toogood). The same autumn she moved to Europe´s art capital Vienna for her third year exchange at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. There she fast established a sense of home, already her first week of school she auditioned for and later the same semester debuted with roles Sandmann and Taumann in Hänsel und Gretel (directed by Robert Simma and conducted by Hartmut Keil in Schlosstheater Schönbrunn). After a year she is now a fulltime student in Vienna under Prof. Martin Vacha.

Her last semester in Norway (2022) she had her 2nd year bachelor exam concert, accompanied by Joachim Kwetzinsky (she got the highest grade possible). During the Oslo Operafestival she had a solo concert ("Tomorrow´s Operastars" arranged by Opera til Folket) with good colleagues and friends Filip Eshetu Steinland and Julie Jensen Storvik, accompanied by Carla Fernandes Boix. 

During her two years in Oslo, Caroline Olava started her first of two years bachelors at Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo with teacher Torgun Birkeland and was shown a lot of trust and often picked out as soloist in different occasions.

In the university she portrayed the roles of Marcelline (Fidelio), Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte) and Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro) in excerpts and did the soprano solo in Forklädd Gud by Lars Erik-Larsson during Fagerborg Festspillene with the Barratt Due chamber chior and wind ensamble. She also did masterclasses such as Bel Canto Masterclasses (led by tenor Matthew Marriott and italian soprano Elisabeth Nordberg-Schulz whom sang with Pavarotti himself), was soloist at Operapub´s for Opera til Folket, as well as many collaborations with Fana Mannskor (male chior). She also joined the chior in opera "Elisabetta regina d´Inghilterra" that Operahøyskolen put up at the Norwegian national opera.

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