Season 2025-26

Ann-Helen Moen
Soprano, Associate Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music

Photo: Børre Eirik Helgerud

Ann-Helen is originally from Fræna on the Romsdal coast, where she started singing in her father’s children’s choir at the age of 8. Later, she went on to the Grieg Academy in Bergen and the Opera Academy in Copenhagen before being hired as a soloist at the Opera in Graz, Austria. She has a very varied career and enjoys singing in intimate venues as well as in large opera and concert halls. Her journey has taken her from Tokyo orchestras in the east to New York and Carnegie Hall in the west.

Recently, she has sung the lead role in Tosca in Kristiansund and as Mimi in La Boheme at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet. She has also performed as a soloist with the MDR Leipzig Radio Orchestra at the Gewandhaus, recorded Mozart’s Lieder with Liv Glaser and sung romance concerts with Håvard Gimse.

Anna Elisabet Einarsson
Mezzo-soprano, Dean of the Opera Academy – Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Anna Einarsson is a Swedish opera singer educated at the Malmö Academy of Music and the Oslo Opera Academy. She made her debut at the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet in 2000 and has been active as an opera and concert singer both nationally and internationally. She has premiered many contemporary works, is represented on several radio and disc recordings, and has received several awards, including the Royal Swedish Academy of Music award and a US Grammy nomination.

Anna has been the Dean of the Opera Academy at Oslo National Academy of the Arts since 2021.

Pål Christian Moe
Artistic Administrator and Casting Advisor

Photo: Wilfried Hoesl

Pål Christian Moe has extensive experience in casting as an artistic administrator and advisor. He has worked with several opera houses, including the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bayerische Staatsoper Opéra National de Paris, L’Opéra de Lille and the National Theater in Prague. He also does the vocal casting for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

Moe is a former producer and held the position of head of vocal department at Deutche Grammophon Gesellschaft in Hamburg, where he was responsible for opera, oratorio and Lied recordings.