Versatillity, musicianship and a crystalline tone are a few of the qualities that have seen the career of Norwegian-born Mari Eriksmoen blossom over the last decade, fostering close collaborations with a number of key orchestras, conductors and directors and with acclaimed appearances on Europe’s premiere opera, concert and recital stages.

Eriksmoen has excelled as Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande (Opera Vlaanderen, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Teatro de la Maestranza, Sevilla), Pamina in Simon McBurney’s staging of Die Zauberflöte (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Dutch National Opera, Opernhaus Zürich), Marzelline in Fidelio (Opéra Comique), La Fée in Cendrillon (Komische Oper Berlin), Susanna and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier (Den Norske Opera), and Waldvogel in Daniel Barenboim’s Ring Cycle at Teatro alla Scala. She has played Gerda in Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw under Kent Nagano, Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare at Festival international d’opéra baroque de Beaune under Ottavio Dantone, and Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding.

On the concert stage, Eriksmoen has performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Santtu-Matias Rouvali in Mahler’s Symphony No 2, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Ivan Fischer in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Münchner Philharmoniker and Paavo Järvi in Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Jukka-Pekka Saraste in Mahler’s Symphony No 8, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner in Britten’s Les Illuminations and Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne, and at the 2022 Salzburger Festspiele with Václav Luks and Collegium 1704 as Isacco in Myslivecek’s rarity Abramo ed Isacco. Most recently, she joined Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri under Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestre de Paris in Mahler’s Symphony No 2 under Klaus Mäkelä and debuted in the title role of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea on tour with Ensemble I Gemelli.

Eriksmoen completed her studies in Oslo (Norwegian Academy of Music), Paris (Conservatoire National Superieur) and Copenhagen (Royal Danish Academy of Opera) before being launched immediately into her career in 2010 by an invitation to debut as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Theater an der Wien, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Those performances marked the beginning of a regular presence on the historic Vienna stage, returning across the next decade as Olympia (Les contes d’Hoffmann), Euridice (Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo), Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Agilea (Handel’s Teseo), and as Susanna, Zerlina and Fiordiligi in the Da Ponte trilogy conducted by the late Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Her discography includes releases of Britten and Canteloube with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner (Chandos), Handel and Mozart with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and Jan Willem de Vriend (Challenge Classics), and her 'poised, elegant and persuasive' (The Guardian) debut recital disc with pianist Alphonse Cémin (Alpha). She also appears on Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethes Faust with Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Daniel Harding (Naxos) and Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail with both the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin under René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi) and Glyndebourne Festival Opera under Robin Ticciati (Opus Arte DVD).