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Christina Nilsson

As the winner of the Renata Tebaldi vocal competition and winner of the third prize, as well as the Birgit Nilsson Prize in Operalia, Christina Nilsson immediately established herself as a world artist in the making. With her sensational role debut as Aida at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, she consolidated her given place in the opera sky and has since then appeared in roles such as Elsa in Lohengrin, Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro and the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos.

Biography

The young Swedish soprano Christina Nilsson began this season at Tiroler Festspiele in Austria where she performed the role of Elsa von Brabant in Lohengrin. This spring Christina will sing two roles at the Royal Swedish Opera; Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro and the title role in Aida.

Christina Nilsson has last season sung Aida in a concert version at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. She has also appeared in the Gala Concert “Bolshoi and Plácido Domingo: Life in Opera” at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. The previous Christina sung her first Elsa in Lohengrin at the Theater Dortmund. This was followed by another role debut as Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.

The season 2017-2018 Christina made her breakthrough role debut as Aida at The Royal Swedish Opera, with great success and fantastic reviews. She also appeared in concerts with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the Stockholm Concert Hall and she was a guest at the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy, where she performed Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder.

The following season Christina performed her first Ariadne in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos at Oper Frankfurt, which was followed by the same role at Opéra de Lausanne. Christina also made a guest appearance as Aida at the Irish National Opera in Dublin.

Christina has previously been a guest at the Opéra de Lyon where she sung Die Aufsehering and covered the role of Chrysothemis in Elektra. She has appeared as Donna Anna in Min bror är Don Juan by W.A Mozart/Niklas Brommare (A short version of Don Giovanni) at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. She has performed the role of The Magician in Son of Heaven by Moto Osada and she has sung Geltrude in Enrico di Borgogna, Donizetti, both at Vadstena Akademien She has also appeared as Sångerskan in Hos Oss by Swedish composer Thomas Jennefelt.

Christina Nilsson was born in Ystad in Southern Sweden and moved to Stockholm when she began her studies at the Lilla Akademien musikgymnasium. After two years at Vadstena folkhögskola she began her studies at the University College of Opera in Stockholm from where she got her Master’s degree in June 2017.

Christina Nilsson participated in the 2019 Operalia competition, where she was awarded the Third prize as well as the Birgit Nilsson Prize. In 2017 Christina Nilsson was awarded the First prize in the Renata Tebaldi International Voice Competition, and she received the First prize as well as the Audience's prize of the Wilhelm Stenhammar International Competition in 2016.

Christina received the Birgit Nilsson Scholarship of 2015 and in 2014 she was awarded the Jenny Lind scholarship which included a concert tour in the United States and Canada. Christina has also received scholarships from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 2013, 2014 and 2015, the Mats Liljefors scholarship in 2013, the Vadstena Akademien scholarship in 2012 and Ystads Allehanda Culture Prize in 2011.

February 2022

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Christina Nilsson 1 web - photo Peter Knutsson photo by Peter Knutson
Christina Nilsson 2 web - photo Peter Knutsson photo by Peter Knutson
Christina Nilsson 1 - photo by Hilda Ståhl photo by Hilda Ståhl
Christina Nilsson 2 - photo by Hilda Ståhl photo by Hilda Ståhl
Christina Nilsson 3 web - photo Peter Knutsson photo by Peter Knutson
Christina Nilsson 10 web - photoi credit Besim Mazhiqi photo by Besim Mazhiqi
Christina Nilsson 13 - photo credit Besim Mazhiqi photo credit Besim Mazhiqi

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Voices from the Press

"Christina Nilsson als Elsa mit ihrem schönen lyrischen Sopran macht eine ungeheure Entwicklung durch. Unter schwerer Anklage des Brudersmords stehend sie sich einen Retter, der nach einer enormen auch musikalisch dramatischen Steigerung auf mysteriöse Art erscheint und sie in einem Kampf mit ihrem Ankläger Telramund rehabilitiert." - Lohengrin/Oper Dortmund

Das Operamagasin - December 2 2019

"Christina Nilsson, die 28 Jahre jung ihr Debüt als Elsa gab, hat eine hübsche, helle, funkeinde, dabei aber durchaus tragfähige Stimme."

Detlef Brandenburg/Die Deutsche Bühne - December 1 2019

"Christina Nilsson ist eine Ariadne wie aus dem Bilderbuch: jung, verzweifelt, total am Rand. Sie singt ganz ohne Wobble, mit grossem Atem. Voll, weich und rund glänzt diese Stimme, sie hat heldische Höhe und orgelnde Tiefe.

Nilsson ist zurzeit einer der Shootingstars der Opernszene. Erst vorletztes Jahr hat sie in Stockholm ihr Examen absolviert, einige Preise gewonnen und wird nun international herumgereicht, zuletzt als Chrysothemis in Lyon. Und wo immer sie singt, fällt sie auf." - Ariadne/Ariadne auf Naxos/Opéra de Lausanne

Eleonore Büning/Neue Zürcher Zeitung - March 19 2019

”Sensational Young Aida Enchants Stockholm. … I expected no less, having heard her before, but here she showed true mastery. The voice is big, brilliant and beautiful, and like Tebaldi, she can spin the most delicate of pianissimo threads and still project over the orchestra. Her Nile aria was absolutely marvellous…” Aida/Royal Swedish Opera

Göran Forsling/Seen and Heard International – February 02 2018

Press

  • "Christina Nilsson ist eine Ariadne wie aus dem Bilderbuch: jung, verzweifelt, total am Rand..." read the review of Ariadne auf Naxos/Lausanne, by Eleonore Büning/Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2019-03-19, here

News Archive

Aida 4 - photo by Sören Vilks image/svg+xml
2022-04-20 photo by Sören Vilks/Kungliga Operan

Christina Nilsson as Aida at the Royal Swedish Opera

Christina Nilsson in the title role of Aida in Stockholm

Figaro 2 photo by Sören Vilks image/svg+xml
2022-02-08

Christina Nilsson, Jonas Degerfeldt and Johanna Rudström in Le nozze di Figaro in Stockholm.

Revival of Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.

Christina Nilsson 10 web - photoi credit Besim Mazhiqi image/svg+xml
2021-09-09 photo by Besim Mazhiqi

Christina Nilsson sings Brahms' Requiem in Stockholm

Christina Nilsson sings Ein deutsches Requiem with the Royal Swedish Opera Chorus and the Royal Swedish Orchestra.

Christina Nilsson 1 CUT - photo Peter Knutson image/svg+xml
2021-07-07 photo by Peter Knutson

Christina Nilsson sings Elsa at Tiroler Festspiele

Christina Nilsson sings Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin at the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl.

Domingo-F-det 2020.10.24 by Damir Yusupov image/svg+xml
2020-10-14 Opera gala concert at the Bolshoi - photo by Damir Yusupov/Bolshoi Theatre

Christina Nilsson in star-studded gala concert Bolshoi Theatre.

Christina Nilsson sings Wagner in a gala concert to Celebrate Plácido Domingo’s Career at the Bolshoi in Moscow

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