Bernarda Fink
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 began 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 Così 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.
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor "Resurrection" (Live)
Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernarda Fink, Anja Harteros, Mariss Jansons, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Classical - Released by BR-Klassik on 28 Sep 2018
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Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
René Jacobs, Bernarda Fink, Jennifer Larmore, Barbara Schlick, Marianne Rørholm, Concert Köln
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 1 Dec 1991
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (Anna Prohaska - Bernarda Fink - Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Bernhard Forck)
Anna Prohaska, Bernarda Fink, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 18 Nov 2010
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Brahms: Lieder
Bernarda Fink and Roger Vignoles
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 6 Nov 2007
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Schumann: Lieder
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 24 Nov 2009
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Bach: Solo Cantatas, BWV 35, 169, 170
Bernarda Fink, Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans
Cantatas (sacred) - Released by harmonia mundi on 22 Jan 2009
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The Virgin's Lament
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini, Bernarda Fink
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 2009
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Haydn: Symphonies No. 91 & 92 "Oxford": Scena di Berenice
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs, Bernarda Fink
Symphonies - Released by harmonia mundi on 24 Feb 2005
Choc de Classica16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Duhovne pesmi
Marcos Fink, Vladimir Mlinarić, Bernarda Fink
Classical - Released by ZKP RTVSLO on 27 Feb 2024
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Canciones españolas (Falla, Granados, Rodrigo)
Bernarda Fink and Anthony Spiri
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 6 Nov 2012
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Berlioz: Nuits d'été, Ravel: Shéhérazade
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 31 Jul 2007
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Brahms: Lieder
Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released by harmonia mundi on 6 Nov 2007
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Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Véronique Gens, Bernarda Fink, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Classical - Released by Archiv Produktion on 13 Jun 1995
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Mahler: Lieder
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 5 May 2014
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Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben
Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released by harmonia mundi on 15 Jan 2008
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Anna Prohaska, Bernarda Fink, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by harmonia mundi on 18 Nov 2010
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Mozart: Piano Concerto K. 503 & Symphony K. 504 & Aria K. 505
Bernarda Fink, Orchestre De Chambre De Lausanne, Christian Zacharias
Classical - Released by Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG) on 1 Apr 2000
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Hasse: Salve Regina
Barbara Bonney, Bernarda Fink, Musica Antiqua Köln , Reinhard Goebel
Classical - Released by Archiv Produktion on 7 Apr 1997
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Anton Dvorák : Zigeunerlieder, Songs & Duets (Chansons & Duos)
Genia Kühmeier, Bernarda Fink and Christoph Berner
Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released by harmonia mundi on 1 Apr 2012
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Conti: Cantate con istromenti
Bernarda Fink, Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor
Classical - Released by Arcana on 1 Jan 2002
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Haydn: Symphonies No. 91 & 92 "Oxford" & Scena di Berenice
Freiburger Barockorchester, Bernarda Fink, René Jacobs
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 24 Feb 2005
Choc de Classica16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo