Louise Fribo

Who is Louise Fribo?

Louise Fribo is a Danish singer, actress and dancer.

Fribo, who studied the violin from age 4 and was trained as a classical dancer from age 7, made her motion picture debut as Lisa in the 1986 Danish feature film Barndommens gade based on a novel by Tove Ditlevsen and directed by Palme d'Or winning director Astrid Henning-Jensen.

Fribo attended from 1986 to 1989 the Bush Davies School of Theatre Arts in East Grinstead and made her stage debut in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats at Operettenhaus Hamburg, where she sang the part of Cinderella in Stephen SOndheim's Into the Woods in the 1990-91 season. Her Danish stage debut came in 1991 as Cosette in Les Misérables on Odense Teater.

Fribo graduated from the Royal Danish Opera Academy in 2003 as a coloratura soprano and had her German opera debut as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos on Theater Lübeck in April 2004. Since then she has sung at several theaters in Europe - in 2006 she participated in the Salzburg Festival - and in 2011 she made her U.S. debut singing in the Michael Sturminger opera The Infernal Comedy alongside John Malkovich.

Louise Fribo also gives concerts in Danish with Bent Fabricius Bjerre, and she gives church concerts. She currently splits her time between Copenhagen and Reigate.