Tone Kummervold

Tone Kummervold made her debut at the Norwegian National Opera in 2009, and became a permanent member of the soloist ensemble in the 2012/2013 season. Here she has sung the title roles in Carmen and La Cenerentola, and a number of other major roles such as:

Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Olga in Eugene Onegin, Mary in The Flying Dutchman, Flora in La Traviata, Varvara in Katia Kabanova, Sonetka in Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk, Clothilde in Norma, The Abbess in Suor Angelica and Mother in Hansel and Gretel. Her latest roles include Maddalena in Rigoletto, and Angela in Missy Mazzoli's newly written work The Listeners, which premiered at the Oslo Operahouse in the autumn of 2022.

She has also excelled in other recent works, such as Le grand macabre, Knut Vaage's opera Khairos, Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin – and Synne Skouen's opera Ballerina.

Kummervold sang in the Norwegian National Opera's concert version of Irgens-Jensen's Heimferd, was a vocal soloist with the Opera Orchestra in Mahler's 3rd Symphony and in the collaboration of DNO&B and the Oslo Philharmonic on Mahler's 8th Symphony.

She has done several other opera roles at home and abroad, and in June 2021, she sung the Third Lady in The Magic Flute at the Glyndebourne Festival in England. Her warm, unique sound has also led her to concert engagements with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Broadcasting Orchestra and the Filarmonica Romana in Italy.

2022 she played La Morte (Death) i Erwin Schulhoff's only opera Flammen (Flames) at the National Opera in Prague, directed by Calixto Bieito, who also is in charge of Die tote Stadt here in Bergen this autumn (2024).

Spring 2024 she sang Mother Marie in Dialogues des Carmélites by Poulenc at The Norwegian Opera and Ballet, and in May and June The Old Lady in Candide by Leonard Bernstein.

Before she sings the role as Brigitta here in Bergen this autumn, she is the bearded woman Baba i The Rake’s Progress by Stravinsky at The Norwegian Opera and Ballet in Oslo.

In November she is launching her album "Unravel Tradition, together with the Vertavo Quartet and pianist Knut Erik Jensen, with music by Missy Mazzoli, Eva Holm Foosnæs and Kurt Weill, among others.

Next summer (2025) Tone Kummervold will make her role debut as Mérope in Enescu's opera Oedipe at the Bregenzer Festspiele in Austria.

Main source: The Norwegian Opera and Ballet
Updated October 2024