Biography
The Dutch soprano Barbara Haveman passed her degree at the Maastricht School of Music. In 1995 she gave her stage debut as Salud in De Falla’s La Vida Breve at the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater. She is the winner of international singing competitions such as the Belvedere Competition in Vienna (third place) and the Concours International de Chant de Verviers (first place).Following her debut she guested at prestigious houses and festivals all over the world, such as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, Oper Köln, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Bregenz Festival as well as the opera houses of Ravenna, Torino, Straßburg, Toulouse, Montpellier, Nice, Antwerp, Leeds, Budapest, Zagreb and Tel Aviv.
She feels at home in the great soprano roles of the Italian, French, German and Slavic repertoire.
She collaborated with conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Sebastian Weigle, Pinchas Steinberg, Seiji Ozawa, Jun Märkl, Markus Stenz, Jaap van Zweden and Paolo Carignani.
Past highlights include the title role of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut as well as Salomé in Massenet’s Hérodiade at the Vienna State Opera, Jenufa/Jenufa and Countess Almaviva/Le nozze di Figaro at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Elisabeth/Tannhäuser in Hamburg and Essen, Elisabetta/Don Carlos at the Semperoper Dresden and the Hamburgische Staatsoper, Alice Ford/Falstaff at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Rusalka in Monte Carlo, Minnie/La fanciulla del West at the Oper Frankfurt and Amelia/Un ballo in maschera at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the title role of Tosca at the National Theatre of Prague.
Her most recent engagements include Lisa/Pique Dame at the Vienna State Opera and Hamburgische Staatsoper, Minnie/La fanciulla del West at the Teatro alla Scala, the title role of Tosca in Liège and Stuttgart, Amelia/Simon Boccanegra at the Opéra Grand d’Avignon, Bianca in Zemlinsky’s Eine florentinische Tragödie at the Opéra Monte Carlo, Elsa/Lohengrin at the Opéra de Marseille, Elisabetta/Don Carlos at the Semperoper Dresden as well as Elena/I vespri siciliani at the Oper Frankfurt as well as Katja Kabanova and Sieglinde/Die Walküre at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.
Barbara Haveman appeared in many concerts in Japan, Belgium, France, Italy and the Netherlands.
Last year Barbara Haveman sang the title role in Tristan und Isolde at the Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden.
In the 22/23 season Haveman takes on the role of Leonore/ Fidelio also at the Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden.
Artist Website
www.barbarahaveman.netManagement
General ManagementArtist Manager

Boris Orlob
Managing Director
boris@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-172-8 51 55 14
Repertoire
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Beethoven | 9. Sinfonie |
Brahms | Ein deutsches Requiem |
Mahler | 8. Sinfonie |
Das klagende Lied | |
Mozart | Requiem |
Coronation Mass in C major | |
Vesperae solennes de Confessore | |
Pergolesi | Stabat Mater |
Poulenc | Stabat Mater |
Rossini | Petite Messe solennelle |
Schostakovich | Sinfonie Nr. 14 |
Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok, op. 127 | |
Schönberg | Lieder, opus 8 |
Gurre-Lieder | |
Strauss, R. | Vier letzte Lieder |
Verdi | Requiem |
Repertoire Opera
Bizet | Carmen | Micaela |
Boito | Mefistofele | Margherita |
Dvorak | Rusalka | Rusalka |
Janacek | Katja Kabanowa | Katja Kabanowa |
Jenufa | Jenufa | |
Massenet | Hérodiade | Salome |
Mozart | Così fan tutte | Fiordiligi |
Don Giovanni | Donna Elvira | |
Le nozze di Figaro | Countess Almaviva | |
Die Zauberflöte | Erste Dame | |
Nielsen | Maskarade | Leonora |
Offenbach | Les contes d'Hoffmann | Giulietta |
Previn | A Streetcar Named Desire | Blanche DuBois |
Poulenc | La voix humaine | Die Frau |
Puccini | La Bohème | Mimi |
La fanciulla del West | Minnie | |
Manon Lescaut | Manon Lescaut | |
Tosca | Floria Tosca | |
Rossini | Moise et Pharaon | Sinaide |
Smetana | Die verkaufte Braut | Marie |
Strauss, R. | Ariadne auf Naxos | Ariadne |
Tschaikowski | Pique Dame | Lisa |
Verdi | Simon Boccanegra | Maria Boccanegra |
Ernani | Elvira | |
Don Carlos | Elisabetta | |
Un ballo in maschera | Amelia | |
La traviata | Violetta Valery | |
Falstaff | Alice Ford | |
Les vêpres siciliennes | Hélène | |
Aida | Aida | |
Otello | Desdemona | |
Wagner | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Eva |
Tannhäuser | Elisabeth | |
Lohengrin | Elsa | |
Zemlinsky | Eine Florentinische Tragödie | Bianca |
Der König Kandaulus | Nyssia |
News

Hotspot Naples: Quartet of protagonists in Die Walküre
Naples has called – and many came. A group of our artists will join the production of Die Walküre at the Teatro di San Carlo. On May 12 and 17, Barbara Haveman as Sieglinde, Tómas Tómasson as Wotan and Rúni Brattaberg as Hunding will be on stage and on May 17, Ursula Hesse von den Steinen will embody Fricka. Furthermore, Raffaela Lintl (Gerhilde), Alexandra Ionis (Roßweiße), Niina Keitel (Grimgerde), as well as Robyn Allegra Parton (Helmwige) and Ivonne Fuchs (Siegrune) will sing the Valkyries under the baton of Juraj Valčuha on these evenings: May 11/12/16/17 and 18Media
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Conductor: Markus Stenz
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Press
Fidelio / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 18.10.2022 / concerti.de
"großartige gesangliche Leistung von Barbara Haveman"
Fidelio / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 18.10.2022 / onlinemerker.com
"Barbara Haveman ... sang und spielte, dank ihrer männlichen Kostümierung und ihres sowohl im Altregister wie auch in der Höhe hochdramatisch gewordenen Stimme die Rolle vortrefflich."
Fidelio / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 17.10.2022 / kulturfreak.de
"Die anspruchsvolle Titelrolle gibt die Sopranistin Barbara Haveman mit Inbrust und dramatischer Schärfe."
Tristan & Isolde / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 20.11.2021 / ioco.de
"Eine stimmlich und musikalisch beglückende Leistung. Auch Havemans schauspielerische Leistung überzeugt"
Tristan & Isolde / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 08.11.2021 / kulturfreak.de
"Die niederländische Sopranistin Barbara Haveman gibt eine tief empfindsame, aber dennoch starke Isolde. Auch für sie ein Rollendebüt."
Kát'a Kabanowa / Teatro di San Carlo Naples / 17.12.18 / anthonyogus.co.uk
"Haveman was an impressive Kat'a, with a full-toned lyricism to express her longing for freedom"
Kát'a Kabanowa / Teatro di San Carlo Naples / 17.12.18 / gothicnetwork.org
"che ci ha completamente conquistati"
Lohengrin / Opera Vlaanderen Antwerp / 12.10.18 / bachtrack.com
"offre dès ses premières notes une touchante incarnation d'Elsa"