Soprano Evelin Novak is a member of the ensemble of the Berlin State Opera, where she has performed roles such as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Mrs. Fluth (The Merry Wives of Windsor), Violetta Valéry (La Traviata), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Drusilla (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Jenny Hill (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny), Eurydice (Orpheus in the Underworld) and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro).

Following her return to Bayreuth in the summer of 2024, she will open her season with her role debut as Liù (Turandot) at Berlin State Opera. In 2024/25 she can also be heard in roles such as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro) and 1st Flower Maiden (Parsifal). Additionally, she will record the Croatian opera Judita with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra under Ivan Repušić and give her house and role debut at the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon in the eponymous role in Jenůfa.

In the 2023/24 season, she appeared in Berlin in roles such as Mimì in La bohème, Marzelline in Fidelio and Woglinde in The Ring of the Nibelungs under the baton of Christian Thielemann. In February, she also made her role debut there as the Countess in Vincent Huguet’s production of Le Nozze di Figaro under the direction of Mark Minkowski. In January 2024, she was heard 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).

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.