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Karolina Bengtsson

The young and already recognised soprano Karolina Bengtsson has with much success introduced herself to the opera community with an array of Awards in major international singing competitions. She was awarded First Prize - the Golden Victoria - during the Debut International Singing Competition 2020 and Best Young Artist reward at the international competition Meistersinger von Nürnberg competition 2022.

Since graduating from Mozarteum in Salzburg, Karolina has made her debut at Oper Frankfurt as part of their Opera Studio, where she last season performed Pamina and Papagena in The Magic Flute. From the season of 2023/24, Karolina joins the Ensemble at Oper Frankfurt.

Biography

The young Swedish soprano Karolina Bengtsson will in the 2023/24 season join the Ensemble at Oper Frankfurt, where her roles include Silvia, Belisa & a Young Shepherd in new productions of Mozart's Ascanio in Alba, Wolfgang Fortner's In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimplin Belisa  and Wagner's Tannhäuser, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and 1st Maid in their production of Strauss' Daphne. 

Karolina commenced the season of 2022/23 with the roles of Nerina and Diana in a concert version of Haydn’s La fedeltà premiata at the Haydn Festival, Brühler Schlosskonzerte at Schloss Augustburg. Karolina Bengtsson also appeared in several roles at Oper Frankfurt; Papagena and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, a Cock and Jay in The Cunning Little Vixen and Isaura in Mercadante's Francesca da Rimini, also performed at Tiroler Festspiele Erl.

Karolina Bengtsson made her debut at Oper Frankfurt during the season of 2021/22 when she joined the Oper Frankfurt Opera Studio, singing Clotilde in Norma, Frasquita in Carmen, Second Woman in Dido and Aeneas and Suor Osmina in Suor Angelica. The same season Karolina sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in a concert version in the concert Salon Frankfurt: Das Opernhaus als Papiertheater at Alte Oper Frankfurt.

Karolina Bengtsson studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and Mozarteum in Salzburg, where teachers included Barbara Bonney, and Wolfgang Holzmair in Lied. Barbara Bonney guided her through her master’s degree in Art including Oper, Lied and Oratorium, and she sang her first Pamina at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg in 2021.

Karolina Bengtsson has worked with conductors such as Benjamin Reiners, Daniel Geiss (Brixen Classics Festival) and Andreas Spering (Capella Augustina) and her concert repertoire include a wide range of Lied and concert arias as well as oratorio repertoire such as Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Bach’s St. Matthew passion, Pergolesi Stabat Mater and Lars-Erik Larsson, Förklädd Gud/God in Disguise.

Karolina Bengtsson has in 2018 performed the world premiere of The Death and Juliet a piece dedicated to her written by Daniel Nelson, performed and later recorded with violinist Malin Broman and the Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra. Karolina has also appeared in the baroque “Sound the trumpet” concert series with Musica Vitae in 2017.

Karolina Bengtsson won The Best Young Artist award at the International Singing Competition Die Meistersingen von Nürnberg in the summer of 2022. In 2021, Karolina won the 3rd prize, as well as three special prizes including engagements at the International Haydn Competition for Classical Lied and Aria in Austria; the Sonderpreis der Bühne Baden, the Sonderpreis des Teatro Mayor in Bogotá and the Sonderpreis der Capella Augustina in Cologne. In 2020, Karolina won the first prize - the Golden Victoria - at the Debut International Singing Competition in Weikersheim and the same year, the Prize Beethoven Lieder at Rheinsberg International Singing Competition.

September 2023

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Voices from the press

"10th Classical Singing Competition DEBUT 2020: Karolina Bengtsson’s dazzling performance wins the Golden Victoria 

Swedish-born Karolina Bengtsson, who today lives in Austria, gave an overwhelmingly heart-rendering performance of Marzelline’s aria “O wär ich schon mit dir vereint” (If only I were already united with thee) from Beethoven’s sole opera “Fidelio” as well as Pamina’s aria “Ach, ich fühl’s” (Ah, I feel it) from Mozart’s “Magic Flute”. The range of emotions, extending from shouting with joy to dying of sorrow, was so appealingly recreated by her lyrically clear and finely tuned soprano voice that the judging panel subsequently awarded first place to 23 year-old Bengtsson, the youngest out of all the finalists, who was delighted to receive the Golden Victoria and 10,000 euros in prize money." - Debut International Singing Competition 2020

Press release/Debut Concerts - September 21, 2020


”The evening ended as rapturously as it had began with Karolina Bengtsson radiant in Grieg’s “Ein Traum” ("A Dream", a Nilsson speciality), clearly responsive to the charged atmosphere of the occasion." - Birgit Nilsson Masterclass konsert 2021

David Nice/The Arts Desk - Augusti 2021


"In der Premierenbesetzung am 23. Juni konnte Karolina Bengtsson als von starken Emotionen bestimmte Pamina mit natürlicher Darstellung und sensibler Sopranlyrik…"/"In the premiere cast on June 23, Karolina Bengtsson as Pamina, determined by strong emotions, was just as enthusiastic with her natural portrayal and sensitive soprano..." - Trollflöjten/Mozarteum Salzburg 2021

Gottfried Franz Kasparek/www.drehpunktkultur.at - 2021-06-24

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Karolina Bengtsson as Pamina and Papagena at Oper Frankfurt

Karolina Bengtsson as Pamina and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte in Frankfurt

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