Bernarda Fink had considerable local success in Argentina before beginning to achieve international attention as a mezzo-soprano in the late 1990s.
She was born to a Slovenian family in Buenos Aires. The family had musical talent: Two younger siblings--Marko (who has sung Arturo in Lucia di Lamermoor) and Veronika (at the turn of the millenium beginning her career at the opera in Ljubljana)--are also singers.
Bernarda beganRead more musical and vocal studies at the Instituto Superior de Arte, a school associated with the Teatro Colón, South America's leading opera house, where she frequently appeared. Other Argentine venues where she sang during these formative years were the Festivales Musicales de Buenos Aires.
In 1985 she won the country's Nuevas Voces Liricas (New Lyrical Voices) Competition, leading to her moving to Europe where she began a notable concert career. She has appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the French Radio Philharmonic, the French National Orchestra, the Orchestra of Suisse Romande, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the New Japan Philharmonic. She also sings with chamber and original instrument groups such as I Solisti Veneti, the English Baroque Soloists, Les Musiciens du Louvre, and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
She is also an active recital singer, including an appearance at the New York Festival of Song in Carnegie Hall.
She established her operatic career with the Grand Théâtre of Geneva. While living in that city she married Valentin Inzko, a Slovenian diplomat. (She is, therefore, sometimes booked as Bernarda Fink-Inzko). She jokes that between his diplomatic postings and her world-wide touring the couple have a "Gypsy existence."
Other operatic appearances have included the Czech National Opera, operas of Montpellier and Innbruck, Barcelona, and the Netherlands Opera. Her repertory includes Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, Humperdink's Hansel und Gretel, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Rossini's La Cenerentola, Mozart's Cosě fan tutte and other operas. Among her concert works are Wagner's Wesendonk Lieder, Berlioz's Les Nuits d'été, Dvorák's Biblical Songs, and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. Read less
Label: Lso Live
Catalog: 790
Release Date: 10/06/2017
Number of Discs: 4
Composer:
Claude Debussy
Performer:
Franz-Josef Selig,
Christian Gerhaher,
Magdalena Kozená,
Bernarda Fink
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Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Orchestra/Ensemble:
London Symphony Orchestra,
London Symphony Chorus
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalog: 1901589
Release Date: 08/25/2017
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Bernarda Fink,
Sibylla Rubens,
Gerd Türk,
Peter Kooy
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Conductor:
René Jacobs
Orchestra/Ensemble:
RIAS Chamber Choir,
Academy for Ancient Music Berlin
Label: Euroarts
Catalog: 26057
Release Date: 08/04/2017
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Antonín Dvorák
Performer:
Bernarda Fink,
Ilse Eerens,
Maximilian Schmitt,
Nathan Berg
Conductor:
Philippe Herreweghe
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Ghent Collegium Vocale,
Royal Flemish Philharmonic
Composer:
Antonín Dvorák
Performer:
Nathan Berg,
Maximilian Schmitt,
Bernarda Fink,
Ilse Eerens
Conductor:
Philippe Herreweghe
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Ghent Collegium Vocale,
Royal Flemish Philharmonic
Label: Phi
Catalog: 26
Release Date: 06/09/2017
Number of Discs: 5
Composer:
Carlo Gesualdo,
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Ludwig van Beethoven,
Hector Berlioz
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Performer:
Thomas Hobbs,
Damien Guillon,
Hana Blazikova,
Peter Kooy
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Conductor:
Philippe Herreweghe
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Ghent Collegium Vocale,
Ghent Collegium Vocale Orchestra,
Champs-Élysées Orchestra
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Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalog: 4797193
Release Date: 04/14/2017
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Claudio Monteverdi
Performer:
David Miller,
Sandro Naglia,
Mark Tucker,
Nigel Robson
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Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner,
Andrea Marcon,
Anthony Rooley,
Paul McCreesh
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
English Baroque Soloists,
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts,
Monteverdi Choir
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Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalog: 4797090
Release Date: 03/31/2017
Number of Discs: 45
Composer:
Ludwig van Beethoven,
Johannes Brahms,
Anton Bruckner,
Emmanuel Chabrier
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Performer:
Anton Dermota,
Irmgard Seefried,
Rosette Anday,
Paul Schöffler
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Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein,
Rafael Kubelik,
Wilhelm Furtwängler,
James Levine
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,
Arnold Schoenberg Choir,
Kuchl String Quartet
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalog: 902239
Release Date: 03/18/2016
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Richard Wagner,
Robert Schumann,
Johannes Brahms,
Franz Schubert
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Performer:
Bernarda Fink
Conductor:
Raphaël Pichon
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Pygmalion
Label: Lso Live
Catalog: 782
Release Date: 10/09/2015
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Robert Schumann
Performer:
Kate Royal,
Bernarda Fink,
Mark Padmore,
Andrew Staples
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Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Orchestra/Ensemble:
London Symphony Orchestra,
London Symphony Chorus
Label: Berlin Philharmonic
Catalog: 150061
Release Date: 06/05/2015
Number of Discs: 9
Composer:
Franz Schubert
Performer:
Birgit Remmert,
Luba Orgonasova,
Kurt Streit,
Christian Gerhaher
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Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra,
Berlin Radio Chorus
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Label: Phi
Catalog: 16
Release Date: 04/28/2015
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Antonín Dvorák
Performer:
Bernarda Fink,
Ilse Eerens,
Maximilian Schmitt,
Nathan Berg
Conductor:
Philippe Herreweghe
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Ghent Collegium Vocale,
Royal Flemish Philharmonic
Label: Brilliant Classics
Catalog: 95110
Release Date: 03/31/2015
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Axel Köhler,
Christoph Prégardien,
Bernarda Fink,
Hillevi Martinpelto
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Conductor:
René Jacobs
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus,
Academy for Ancient Music Berlin
Label: Rco Live
Catalog: 14109
Release Date: 03/31/2015
Number of Discs: 3
Composer:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer:
Bernarda Fink,
Myrto Papatanasiu,
Burkhard Fritz,
Gerald Finley
Conductor:
Iván Fischer
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Label: Rco Live
Catalog: 14108
Release Date: 03/31/2015
Number of Discs: 3
Composer:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer:
Myrto Papatanasiu,
Bernarda Fink,
Burkhard Fritz,
Gerald Finley
Conductor:
Iván Fischer
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalog: 002179902
Release Date: 12/09/2014
Number of Discs: 5
Composer:
Leroy Anderson,
Leopold Mozart,
Johnny Marks,
John Frederic Coots
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Performer:
Helen Donath,
Anna Reynolds,
Christa Ludwig,
Maria Teresa Garatti
...
Conductor:
Arthur Fiedler,
Karl Richter,
Stephen Cleobury,
Sir David Willcocks
...
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Boston Pops,
London Philharmonic Orchestra,
John Alldis Choir
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalog: 921742
Release Date: 09/09/2014
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Christoph W. Gluck
Performer:
Veronica Cangemi,
Maria Cristina Kiehr,
Bernarda Fink
Conductor:
René Jacobs
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus,
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Catalog: 1116165
Release Date: 09/02/2014
Number of Discs: 142
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Remy Baudet,
Theunis Van der Zwart,
Erwin Wieringa,
Pieter-Jan Belder
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Conductor:
Pieter-Jan Belder,
Ludwig Güttler,
Thomas Zehetmair,
Kurt Masur
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Musica Amphion,
Virtuosi Saxoniae,
Amsterdam Bach Soloists
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalog: 902173
Release Date: 05/13/2014
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Gustav Mahler
Performer:
Bernarda Fink,
Anthony Spiri
Conductor:
Andres Orozco-Estrada
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Gustav Mahler Ensemble,
Lower Austrian Tonkünstler Orchestra
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Label: Archiv Produktion (Dg)
Catalog: 002020702
Release Date: 04/15/2014
Number of Discs: 5
Composer:
Robert Schumann
Performer:
Gavin Edwards,
Susan Dent,
Robert Maskell,
Roger Montgomery
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Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique,
Monteverdi Choir,
Hanover Boys' Choir Members
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