Ilse Eerens

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Praised for her luminous voice, musical sensitivity, and stylistic versatility, Belgian soprano Ilse Eerens enjoys an international career in opera and concert, spanning repertoire from Bach to contemporary composers.

The season 2025-26 will see her performing Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with MDR Sinfonieorchester, Handel’s Athalia on tour with Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and Abrahamsen’s let me tell you with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia. She also appears in Weber’s Jubelmesse for the AVROTROS Vrijdagconcert, Bach’s Matthäus-Passion with both the Residentie Orkest under Peter Dijkstra and the Bergen Philharmonic under Jan Willem de Vriend, and Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Orchestra of the 18th Century conducted by Bart van Reyn. She concludes the season with Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem alongside the Windsbacher Knabenchor and Stuttgarter Philharmoniker.

Recent highlights include the title role in the world premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s Natasha at the New National Theatre Tokyo, Brahms’ Requiem with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher with Alain Altinoglu and the hr-Sinfonieorchester across major European venues, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at La Monnaie.

Ilse Eerens has performed at leading opera houses and festivals including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Salzburg Festival, Opéra de Lyon, Opéra de Lille, Theater an der Wien, and Bregenz Festival. Her repertoire spans roles such as Mozart’s Pamina, Susanna, and Despina; Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande; Héro in Béatrice et Bénédict; the Vixen in The Cunning Little Vixen; and contemporary works such as Hosokawa’s Matsukaze and Gruber’s Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald.

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