Lisa Houben

Born in Washington D.C. to Dutch parents, the soprano Lisa Houben studied music in Milano, Montreal, The Hague and Washington with, amongst others, Todd Duncan, Rodolfo Celletti, Magda Olivero and Carlo Bergonzi. She began her international career with Tosca. Since then, her performances of Fidelio, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, Lady Macbeth, Aïda, Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio San)... brought her to the Opera of Rome, Palermo’s Teatro Massimo, La Fenice in Venice, Opera of Bordeaux, Opera of Lyon, Brussels’s La Monnaie, Nuremberg's Staatstheater, Vienna’s Volksoper, Strasburg's Opéra du Rhin, Luxemburg’s Grand Théâtre, Opera of Flanders,… Her wide range of repertoire also includes Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco, Abigaïlle (Nabucco), Feldmarshallin (Rosenkavalier), Elisabetta (Don Carlo), Leonora (La forza d