Dorine Mortelmans

Belgian soprano Dorine Mortelmans took her master's degree at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp and went on to the opera studios of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and Opera Studio Nederland. Between 2016 and 2019 she sang at Theater Bielefeld, where her roles included Gretel and the Dew Fairy in Hänsel und Gretel, Papagena, Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore, Tebaldo and the Voice from Heaven in Don Carlo, and Ygraine in Ariane et Barbe-bleue. Elsewhere she has sung Blonde, Belinda, Serpina, Adele, Frasquita, Ismene in Mitridate and La Musica in Monteverdi's Orfeo, and has appeared at La Monnaie, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, the Opéra Royal de Wallonie and Opera Zuid. Concert and oratorio work runs beside the stage, together with a duo with the pianist Barbara Baltussen and teaching that joins vocal technique to breathing and yoga for musicians. At Bielefeld she also sang Anne Frank in Anne und Zef, and she has appeared at the Hamburg State Opera. Her concert repertoire takes in the Baroque oratorios, Mozart's Requiem and Orff's Carmina Burana.