Florieke Beelen

Recently Mezzo Soprano Florieke Beelen (1987) received several awards. She won four prizes during the International Vocal Competition in ’s-Hertogenbosch. Among them was the prestigious Arleen Auger Allround Prize for the best allround singer of the competition. During the Belvedere Competition 2015 she won the Jong Talent Prize. Therefore, the Dutch newspaper “NRC” called Florieke: “the rising star”. At the Stenhammar Music Competition in Sweden (June 2016) she won two prizes, one of them was the Stenhammar Prize. Opera At the age of 25 Florieke became a frequent guest at the Dutch National Opera. Her first role was  Linette in ‘L’amour des trois oranges’ (Prokofiev) and thereafter she performed three more roles there, amongst them Ines in ‘Il Trovatore’ (Verdi). At the Nederlandse Reisop