Tom Erik Lie

Bariton

Title part in »Don Giovanni«, Horatio in »Hamlet«, Prince Jeletzki in »Pique Dame«, Gabriel von Eisenstein in »The Bat«
The baritone was born in Oslo and absolved from 1986 to 1991 his singing studies at the Conservatory and the State Opera University in Oslo. Already in 1991 his first engagement took him to Düsseldorf. From 1993 to 1998, Tom Erik Lie was engaged in Gelsenkirchen. In 1996 he was nominated by the magazine Opernwelt as »New Generation Artist of the Year«, for his performance of Wolfram in »Tannhäuser«. In 1995 he obtained the »Ingrid Bjoner's Scholarship for Young Singers«. Then, guest engagements took him to Hanover, Essen, Nuremberg, Bonn, Leipzig and Dresden, amongst others. From 1998 to 2001, Tom Erik Lie was member of the ensemble of the Leipzig Opera. From 1998 to 2001, he was member of the Leipzig Opera ensemble. Here he sang, amongst others, Frère Léon in the German premiere of Messiaen's »Saint François d’Assise«, Guglielmo, Papageno, Siegfried in Schumann's »Genoveva« and Wolfram in »Tannhäuser«, a part, which he also sang for the Royal Opera in Copenhagen. From 2001 to 2004, he was engaged by the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he was seen as Papageno, Wolfram, Sharpless, Albert, Schaunard, and Frère Léon. He made his Komische Oper Berlin debut in 2003 as Edwin in »The Gypsy Princess«. Since 2004 he is also a member of the ensemble and sang, amongst others, Marcel in »La Bohème«, Count Almaviva, the title part in »Jewgeni Onegin«, Sharpless, Papageno, Don Giovanni, and Gabriel von Eisenstein.

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