Evelin Novak
Soprano Evelin Novak is a member of the ensemble at Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, where she recently celebrated great success with both audiences and critics, debuting as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and Agathe in Der Freischütz.
Guest contracts regularly take the young singer, whose repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary, to Semperoper Dresden, where she has performed as Pamina, Marzelline, and Najade in the new production of Ariadne auf Naxos under the baton of Christian Thielemann. Under his direction, she will also be heard in Wagner’s Ring in Dresden in 2023.
Other important engagements include the Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Hamburg State Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, as well as the opera houses in Cologne, Graz, Lyon, Mörbisch Seefestspiele, St. Margarethen Festival, and the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, where she has performed roles such as Mimì (La Bohème), Micaela (Carmen), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Saffi (The Gypsy Baron), and Annina (A Night in Venice).
At the Staatsoper Berlin, she has sung roles including Violetta Valéry (La Traviata), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Jenny Hill (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny), Drusilla (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Eurydice (Orpheus in the Underworld), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Marzelline (Fidelio), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), and Woglinde (The Ring).
Evelin Novak is also a sought-after concert soloist. In addition to recitals, she has toured China, performed at the Ljubljana Summer Festival in 2015 at a gala concert alongside Željko Lučić, and gave a concert in Zagreb in 2017 with José Cura. Recently, she successfully performed with the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne under Simone Young, and made her debut with Haydn’s The Creation in Zagreb, which was broadcast live on television.
She regularly works with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta, Sir Simon Rattle, Simone Young, Massimo Zanetti, and Ivan Repušić, under whose direction she sang Lisette in the 2015 CD production of La rondine with the Munich Radio Orchestra. She completed her studies in Graz under Ulf Bästlein and at HMDK Stuttgart under Dunja Vejzović, graduating with distinction. She has also received further artistic impulses from masterclasses with Mirella Freni, Brigitte Fassbaender, Deborah Polaski, and Patricia McCaffrey.