Rebecka Wallroth

The young Swedish mezzo-soprano Rebecka Wallroth will during the seasons 2023/24 and 2024/25, join the International Opera Studio of Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. In August Rebecka made her debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra performing Seven songs by Alma Mahler. Rebecka has this summer appeared at the Vadstena Castle with the Vadstena Academy production of the contemporary opera Andefabriken / The Ghost Factory by Daniel Nelson in the role of Lilly. Rebecka has also been a guest at the live broadcasted Swedish Television summer concert production Allsång på Skansen.

Rebecka has in the spring of 2023 completed her Bachelor’s degree at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (MDW) where she during the season of 2022/23 performed the roles of Olga in Eugen Onegin and Idamante in Idomeneo, both at Schlosstheater, Schönbrunn. The season before included Unulfo in Händel’s Rodelinda and Agnes in Die verkaufte Braut on the same stage. In the summer of 2022, she participated in the Confidencen Opera and Music Festival Academy in Sweden and performed several Lied concerts in Skaraborg, Sweden. Rebecka was a soloist in the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Christmas concerts of 2022 in Stockholm.

In the spring of 2022 Rebecka Wallroth was awarded first prize and the Karl Böhm Mozart prize at the Gesangwettbewerb Feruccio Tagliavini in Austria, and in November 2022 she won the first prize of the Karl Staud Musikpreis. Rebecka was also awarded the second prize in the Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition of 2022. In 2023 Rebecka was awarded the Anders Wall Foundation Confidencen Scholarship.

Rebecka Wallroth’s repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music, including opera, Lied och oratorio. Rebecka has been awarded scholarships from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, Sandrews Foundation and Anny Felbermayer Foundation and she received the 2022 Joel Berglund-scholarship from the Royal Swedish Opera soloists in Stockholm. In 2018 Rebecka won the music competition Dalasolist and participated the same year in concert with the Dala sinfonietta led by Cecilia Rydinger-Ahlin.

Rebecka has participated in masterclasses with Katarina Karneus, Ann Hallenberg, Elin Rombo, Matti Hirvonen and Jeremy Carpenter. Previous to her studies at the MDW, Rebecka studied at the Music Conservatory in Falun, Sweden, under the tutelage of Anita Soldh.

August 2023