Biography

Swedish soprano Karolina Bengtsson is a member of the soloist ensemble at Oper Frankfurt, where her 2026/27 season includes the title role in Mozart’s Zaide, Gretel, Fiordiligi and Oberto in Handel’s Alcina.

She grew up in Huseby in Småland and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg with Barbara Bonney. She joined the Oper Frankfurt Opera Studio in 2021/22 and has been a member of the ensemble since 2023/24, singing Pamina, Fiordiligi, Sophie in Werther and Belisa in Fortner’s Don Perlimplín.

Away from Frankfurt she has sung Camille in Louise at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Clotilde in Norma at the Bayerische Staatsoper and Dori in Traetta’s Ifigenia in Tauride at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik. The Ifigenia recording with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset, released by Aparté in 2026, was chosen for the Bestenliste of the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.

In concert she has sung Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Carmina Burana with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem with Göteborgs Symfoniker and Hanne in Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten at the Klangvokal Musikfestival in Dortmund.

She won first prize at the DEBUT Classical Singing Competition in Weikersheim in 2020, received the Birgit Nilsson Stipendium in 2025 and the Hedbergska stora debutantstipendiet from the Royal Swedish Opera in 2026.

Besides the honour, it is also recognition, support and a push forward to keep following my dream.

Voice

Soprano

Ensemble

Oper Frankfurt, since 2023/24

Education

Royal Danish Academy of Music; Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, with Barbara Bonney

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