Christina Nilsson

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