Croatian soprano Evelin Novak is a member of the ensemble at Berlin State Opera, where she has performed roles such as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Mimì (La bohème), Liù (Turandot), Frau Fluth (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Violetta Valéry (La traviata), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Drusilla (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Jenny Hill (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny), Eurydike (Orpheus in der Unterwelt), and the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro).

In the 2025/26 season, she will appear at the Croatian National Opera in Zagreb as “Star of the Season” in the roles of Mimì and Rusalka, as well as making her role debut as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser in a new production by Frank Van Laeke. At her home theater in Berlin, she will appear on stage as Fiordiligi, Donna Anna, Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), and Woglinde (Der Ring des Nibelungen), among others. In the summer of 2026, she will make her role debut as Freia (Das Rheingold) at the Bayreuth Festival under Christian Thielemann and sing the First Flower Maiden (Parsifal) for the fourth year in a row.

After returning to Bayreuth in the summer of 2024, Evelin Novak gave her role debut as Liù (Turandot) at Berlin State Opera in the 2024/25 season and also returned to roles such as Pamina, Countess, and First Flower Maiden. She also recorded the Croatian opera Judita with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Ivan Repušić and made her house and role debut at the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon in the title role of Jenůfa. She also returned to Bayreuth in the 2025 festival summer as the First Flower Maiden.

During the 2023/24 season, she appeared in Berlin in roles such as Mimì in La bohème, Marzelline in Fidelio, and Woglinde under the baton of Christian Thielemann. In February, she also made her role debut as the Countess in Vincent Huguet’s production of Le nozze di Figaro under the baton of Mark Minkowski. In January 2024, she appeared as Karolka in Jenůfa at the Barbican Center with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. At the Semperoper Dresden, she sang Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) during the season.

In the summer of 2023 she gave her debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Woglinde in Das Rheingold and in Götterdämmerung, and as the First Flower Maiden in Parsifal.

Guest engagements regularly take the young singer, whose repertoire extends from Baroque to Modernity, to the Semperoper Dresden, where she has so far sung Pamina, Gretel, Marzelline and Najade in the new production of Ariadne auf Naxos under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann. Other important theaters include the Vienna State Opera, Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, ​​Hamburg State Opera, Komische Oper Berlin as well as the opera houses of Cologne, Graz, Lyon, the Seefestspiele Mörbisch, the Opernfestspiele St. Margarethen and the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb, where she has sung Mimì (La Bohème), Micaëla (Carmen), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Saffi (Der Zigeunerbaron) and Annina (Eine Nacht in Venedig).

Ms. Novak is also a sought-after soloist on the concert stage. In addition to recitals, she embarked on a concert tour through China, made a guest appearance at the 2015 Ljubljana Summer Festival in a Gala Concert partnering Željko Lučić, and gave a concert in Zagreb alongside José Cura in 2017. Most recently the soprano successfully performed with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne under the baton of Simone Young, and gave her debut in Haydn’s The Creation, which was streamed live on radio and television from Zagreb’s Lisinski Concert Hall.

She collaborates on a regular basis with notable conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta, Sir Simon Rattle, Simone Young, Massimo Zanetti, and Ivan Repušić, under whose direction she sang Lisette in the 2015 concert performance of La rondine with the Munich Radio Orchestra, recorded live and published in CD format.

Ms. Novak received vocal training in Graz with Ulf Bästlein and at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart with Dunja Vejzović, with whom she completed her studies. The soprano furthered her artistry in master classes with Mirella Freni, Brigitte Fassbaender, Deborah Polaski and Patricia McCaffrey.

Since October 2020 Ms. Novak has been teaching as a member of the Voice Faculty at Berlin’s University of the Arts.