Lone Koppel was born in Copenhagen, daughter of the pianist and composer Herman D. Koppel and his wife Vibeke. Lone Koppel was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Music a and later to the Danish Opera Academy. She made her debut in 1961, having already sung the soprano part in Verdi's Requiem in Sweden. She was attached to the opera in Kiel 1964-66, during the same period appearing as guest artist at the Royal Danish Opera. In 1987, she celebrated her 25th jubilee as Elektra at the Royal Danish Opera and, in 2002, her 40th jubilee as the Countess in Queen of Spades. She has given guest performances in the Scandinavian opera houses: Stockholm, Gothenburg, Helsinki and Oslo, as well as in Germany, England, the Netherlands and New Zealand. From 1973 to 1978 she was permanent member of the Australian Opera in Sydney, where she continued to give guest performances until 1999.
Her repertoire included the dramatic soprano parts by Verdi, Wagner and Richard Strauss a.o.:Donna Anna and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Medea, Manon in Manon Lescaut, Giorgetta in Il Tabarro, Leonore in Fidelio and Leonore, Marie in Wozzeck, Tatjana in Eugen Onegin, Leonore in La Trovatore, Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Abigaille in Nabucco, Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera, Elisabetta and Eboli in Don Carlo, Amneris in Aida as well as Jenufa and Kostelnicka in Jenufa, Katya and Kabanicka in Katya Kabanowa, Katerina in Katerina Ismailowa, Katarina in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Judith in Bluebeard..s Castle, Jenny in Mahagonny, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, Kundry in Parsifal, Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer, Ortrud in Lohengrin, Elisabeth and Venus in Tannhäuser, Salome and Herodias in Salome, Elektra and Chrysothemis in Elektra, Ariadne and the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Madame Croissy in Dialogues des Carmélites and Lisa and the Countess in The Queen of Spades. She was especially famous for her interpretation of Puccini's Tosca, which was preserved in a TV-production 1964.
Lone Koppel has sung solo parts in the concert and oratorio repertoire and has sung a great number of lied concerts with her father Herman D. Koppel.
For many years she has taught at the Danish Opera Academy and at The Royal Danish Academy of Music.
As a director, in 1993 she staged Peter Heise's opera Drot og marsk (King and Marshal) at the Royal Danish Theatre, and in 2003 she staged Verdi's Nabucco at the Värmland Opera in Karlstad in Sweden.
L.K. is Ridder af Dannebrog.
L.K. is married to Operasinger Björn Asker.
Roles 1962 - 2003 (Operas in alphabetic order):Aida (Amneris), Royal Theatre 1991 -
Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne, Composer), Kiel 1964, Royal Theatre 1965, Sydney 1975 -
Un Ballo in Maschera (Amelia), Royal Theatre 1978 -
Bluebeard's Castle (Judith), Royal Theatre 1989 -
La Bohème (Musetta), Royal Theatre 1962 -
Carmen (Micaëla), Sydney 1977 -
Cavalleria Rusticana (Santuzza), Royal Theatre 1964 -
The Consul (Mother), Helsinki 1999 -
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Giulietta), Royal Theatre 1990 -
Dialogues des Carmélites (Madame Croissy), Sydney 1984, Video/DVD from Sydney 1990,
Royal Theatre 1997 -
Don Carlos (Elisabeth, Eboli), DR 1968, Royal Theatre 1981 -
Don Giovanni (Donna Anna, Donna Elvira) Kiel 1965, DR 1971, Sydney 1978 -
Drot og marsk (King and Marshal, Peter Heise) (Ingeborg), DR 1968 -
Elektra (Chrysothemis, Elektra), DR 1965, Royal Theatre 1986 -
Eugene Onegin (Tatiana), Royal Theatre 1970 -
Fidelio (Leonora), Hälsingborg 1964, Royal Theatre 1965, Aarhus 1972, Melbourne 1977 -
Der Fliegende Holländer (Senta), Kiel 1965, Royal Theatre 1966, Sydney 1977, New Zealand 1977 -
Jenufa (Jenufa, Kostelnicka), Danish TV 1972, New Zealand 1976, Royal Theatre 1982 + 1998, Sydney 1974 + 1992, Göteborg 1995, Royal Theatre 1998 -
Katerina Izmailova (Katerina), Royal Theatre 1973 -
Katya Kabanova (Katya, Kabanicha), Danish TV 1971, Sydney 1995 -
Khovanshchina (Susanna), DR 1988 -
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Katerina), Royal Theatre 1991 -
Leonore (Beethoven, 1805) (Leonore) Royal Theatre 1970 -
Lohengrin (Ortrud), Royal Theatre 1983, Sydney 1990 -
The Love for Three Oranges (Fata Morgana), Royal Theatre 1994 -
Macbeth (Herman D. Koppel) (Lady Macbeth), Royal Theatre 1970 -
Macbeth (Verdi) (Lady Macbeth), Royal Theatre 1980, Stockholm 1980 -
Maestro (Niels Marthinsen) (Stara), Den Anden Opera 2001-
Mahagonny (Jenny), Sydney 1975 -
Manon Lescaut (Manon), Royal Theatre 1968 -
Medea (Medea), DR 1983 -
Nabucco (Abigaille), Sydney 1973, Stockholm 1990 -
Parsifal (Kundry), Sydney 1977, Royal Theatre 1988 -
Le Pauvre Matelot (Darius Milhaud) (Wife), Danish TV 1963 -
Peter Grimes (Mrs Sedley), Royal Theatre 1993 -
The Queen of Spades (Lisa, Countess), DR 1972, Royal Theatre 2000 -
Rigoletto (Page), Royal Theatre 1962 -
The Return of Ulysses (Athene), Royal Theatre 1969 -
Der Rosenkavalier (Octavian), Sydney 1976 -
Salome (Salome, Herodias), Royal Theatre 1966, Bonn 1973, Sydney 1976, Aarhus 1999, Royal Theatre 2003 -
Saul and David (Michal), Royal Theatre 1962 -
Simon Boccanegra (Amelia), Royal Theatre 1968 -
The Story of a Mother (Thomas Koppel) (Mother), Royal Theatre 1965 -
Tannhäuser (Elisabeth, Venus), Royal Theatre 1964, Sydney 1973 -
Il Tabarro (Giorgetta), Royal Theatre 1979 -
Tosca (Tosca), TV 1964, Royal Theatre 1967, Sydney 1974, Stockholm 1991 -
Il Trovatore (Leonora), Royal Theatre 1971, Aarhus 1981 -
Wozzeck (Marie), Kiel 1966, Royal Theatre 1971, Adelaide Festival 1975 -Brief guest performances not mentioned.Worked at Operahouses in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Germany, Holland, England, Australia, New Zealand a.o.
