Olivia Vermeulen
Olivia Vermeulen
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About Olivia Vermeulen
Olivia Vermeulen Praised for the “exceptional wealth of colours” in her voice (Opernwelt) and singing of “exquisite, inexhaustible sweetness” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Dutch mezzo-soprano Olivia Vermeulen is internationally celebrated for her versatility and artistic curiosity, with a repertoire spanning baroque to contemporary works. Her acclaimed debut album Dirty minds (2020) together with pianist Jan Philip Schulze was hailed with the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and the Edison Klassiek Prize and toured to leading venues including the Oxford International Song Festival, deSingel Antwerp, Brucknerhaus Linz, Hugo Wolf Akademie Stuttgart, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Their second album, Hello Darkness was released in 2022 and featured among Volkskrant’s top 40 albums of the year (cross-genre). On the concert stage, Olivia enjoys a particularly close collaboration with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under René Jacobs. To date she has collaborated with the Berliner Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg, under such names as Daniel Harding, Pablo Heras Casado, Philippe Herreweghe, Frans Brüggen, Reinhard Goebel, Marek Janowski, Tomáš Netopil, Masaaki and Masato Suzuki, and Kent Nagano. She has appeared at the Bregenz Festival, Salzburg Festival, Holland Festival, Munich Opera Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Handel Festival in Halle, while the 2025- 26 season marks key concert debuts at the Festspielhaus Baden Baden, the Vienna Musikverein and the Tonhalle Zürich, among others. Her operatic career includes roles such as Donna Elvira (Mozart’s Don Giovanni) and Dorabella (Così fan tutte) both with Jacobs and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra on tour, as well as house debuts at the Opéra national de Paris and at the Opernhaus Zürich as Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro). She has appeared regularly in recent years at the Berlin State Opera. Equally at home in contemporary repertoire, Olivia has created roles by Thomas Larcher (Bregenz Festival), John Adams (Concertgebouw Amsterdam), and Philippe Manoury (Opéra Comique in Paris).
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