Hear the moods

hidden in the music

Praised for her special ‘ability to express the moods hidden in the music – from sadness to exuberance’, mezzosoprano/contralto Eva Kroon in recent years has come to the forefront of the Dutch music scene as a singer of choice for roles for the lower female voice, steering, for instance, the third act of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann ‘to a seldom heard highlight’ (Theaterkrant).

Eva Kroon is a regular guest at the Dutch National Opera. This June she will be the Innkeeper in Boris Godunov in a new production of Kirill Serebrennikov under the baton of Vasily Petrenko. In recent years she has performed at the DNO roles such as Die Stallmagd in Königskinder (Albrecht/Loy 2022), Annina in Der Rosenkavalier (Viotti/Gloger 2023), La maestra delle novizie in Suor Angelica (Viotti/Kosky 2024) and Giovanna in Rigoletto (Fogliani/Michieletto 2024) and Stimme von Oben in Frau ohne Schatten (Albrecht/Mitchel 2025). She has also been a guest at Les Arts Valencia, in productions such as Elektra and Mary in Der fliegende Holländer (Gaffigan/Decker 2025).

Her repertoire shows a passion for both classical and contemporary opera, with roles such as Amneris (Aida), Hippolyta (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Kaiser Wilhelm in the chamber opera De Grens by Jan-Peter de Graaff.

Off-stage voices have become something of a speciality at Dutch National Opera, since she sang, with Günther Groissböck and Christopher Ventris, as the Voice from Heaven in Parsifal and caught international attention as an ‘appealingly voiced’ (Bachtrack) La voix de la mère in Les contes d’Hoffmann, alongside Ermonela Jaho’s Antonia and Erwin Schrott’s Docteur Miracle, of which specialist website www.offenbach-hoffmann.de wrote: ‘This excellent trio of interpreters offered a listening enjoyment which will be hard to beat.’ In the 2019-2020 season she will sing the Voice from Above in  Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten. In January 2020 she will make her debut in Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia, as Erste Magd in Strauss’s Elektra.

During the Summer of 2018, Eva Kroon temporarily extended her natural Fach when she was asked to sing the role of Amneris in Aida for Opera Spanga (The Netherlands), a ‘brilliant’ performance according to Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. British magazine Opera wrote: ‘The most complete performance came from Eva Kroon – such was her command of the words, music and drama that the production could have been build as Amneris.’

In the 2018-2019 season, Eva created the roles of Cook/Woman/Ritual Singer in Micha Hamel’s Caruso a Cuba (‘Eva Kroon’s mezzo was beautiful and buttery’ said Opera Today) for Dutch National Opera. In April 2017, she sang the lead role of emperor Wilhelm in the world premiere of Jan-Peter de Graaff’s chamber opera De Grens and repeated her role in an extended version of this opera, performed in the autumn of 2018 for Opera Zuid.

On the opera stage, Eva has worked with conductors such as Stéphane Denève, Marc Albrecht, Carlo Rizzi, James Gaffigan and Lorenzo Viotti. On the concert platform, she has participated as a soloist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at the Royal Concertgebouw and in such works as the Verdi Requiem, Rossini’s Petite messe solenelle, Verdi’s Requiem, Händel’s Messiah, Bach’s St. John’s Passion, and Mahler’s  2nd symphony ‘Auferstehung under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel.
In recital, she has sung song cycles by Mahler, Wagner, Brahms and Strauss. She has appeared regularly on Dutch national radio, both in performance and in interviews.

Eva Kroon is preparing roles such as Erda in Das Rheingold and Siegfried, First Norn in Götterdämmerung and Geneviève in Pelléas et Mélisande. She studies with noted dramatic soprano Nadine Secunde.

Eva Kroon recently released her debut Album together with pianist Heleen Vegter. The album ‘Reflets’ with songs of Duparc, Berlioz, Bonis en Boulanger can be found on spotify amongst other digital streaming services.