PHILIPPA COLD

ABOUT

The Danish soprano Philippa Cold has a diploma from the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music and has since attended the soloist class in Odense and at the Opera Studio in Stockholm.

In 2024, she performed at Elsinore Chamber Opera as Santuzza in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana. In season 24/25, she sings both Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Venus in Wagner's Tannhäuser.

She also sings the soprano part in Fauré's Requiem with the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra and Gabriel/Eva in Haydn's The Creation with Randers Chamber Orchestra in 2024.

With the opera group Nontardar, she tours throughout Denmark as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro in season 23/24. An exciting new performance is underway for spring 2025.

Philippa Cold covered Donna Anna in Glyndebourne's new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni by director Mariame Clément and conductor Evan Rogister in the summer of 2023.

In 2023, she was with Elsinore Chamber Opera's production of "The Ring in one Evening," where she sang Sieglinde and Gutrune. The performance played at the Copenhagen Opera Festival in August 2023.

Philippa Cold won 3rd prize at The Lauritz Melchior International Singing Competition in Aalborg in November 2020, where she sang Wagner's Sieglinde and Senta with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ralf Weikert.

She sang Mahler's Rückert Lieder with the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra for the Nordic Masterclass in the summer of 2022. In addition, she was Blumenmädchen in the DR Koncerthuset with the Denmark’s Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Adam Fischer in the spring of 2022.

Philippa Cold sang the role of Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff with Den ny Opera in Esbjerg in August 2021. She also toured as Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte with the opera group Nontardar throughout Denmark.

She was Proserpina in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo at the Royal Theater with Concerto Copenhagen and conductor Lars Ulrik Mortensen in 2020.

She has performed as soprano soloist in Stabat mater by Dvoràk with South Denmark Symphony Orchestra and South Denmark Philharmonic Choir in April 2021.

In the autumn of 2020 she sang Gerald Finzi’s Dies Natalis and Fauré Requiem with Randers Chamber Orchestra and conductor David Riddell. She repeated Dies Natalis with members of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in June 2021. The concert was broadcast by Danish national radio.

In 2019 she dived into modern opera with the newly written opera ‘Kommentarfeltet’ by Norwegian composer Trygve Brøske and the opera ‘Go’nat, min skat’ by Danish composer Karsten Fundal with MusikTeater SaltoMortale. 

Furthermore she sang the role of Donna Anna in Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ with Nontardar on tour in all of Denmark and of Emmy Høyer in ‘Den kongelige Gæst’ (The royal Guest) by Danish composer Hakon Børresen (1874-1956) at Copenhagen Opera Festival and Funen Opera. 

In 2018 she sang Fiordiligi in Nontardar’s production of ‘Così fan tutte’ at Funen Opera and Michaela in ‘Carmen’ in Nykøbing Sjælland. She also appeared in Carl Nielsen’s Espansiva Symphony with South Denmark Symphony Orchestra (Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester).

She sang Mabel in ‘Pirates of Penzance’ and Yum-Yum in ‘The Mikado’ by Gilbert and Sullivan and the title role in Offenbach’s ‘La belle Hélène’ at the Court Theatre in Copenhagen. 

At Copenhagen Opera Festival she was Charlotte in ‘A Fairytale in Rosenborg Gardens’ by Danish composer C.E.F. Weyse.