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Sofie Asplund

The charismatic and vocally brilliant coloratura soprano Sofie Asplund has excelled in her major role debuts at both the Gothenburg Opera and the Royal Opera in Stockholm. Sofie has been praised for her role portraits of Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, a role she has performed both in Stockholm and in Gothenburg.

In 2022 Sofie was awarded the merit medal the Order of the White Rose of Finland for her accomplishments as an opera singer.

Biography

The brilliant coloratura soprano Sofie Asplund has this summer appeared as Arianna in Vivaldi’s Il Giustino at the Drottningholm Palace Theatre. Sofie has begun the season at the Royal Swedish Opera where she has sung Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos. The spring will include another Strauss opera; Die schweigsame Frau at the Göteborg Opera with Sofie as Aminta, which will be followed by Musetta in La Bohème on the same stage.

The previous season Sofie sung the role of The Foster Sister in the opera Herr Arnes Penningar/Sir Arne’s Treasure by Gösta Nystroem at the Göteborg Opera. The season also included two world premieres both at Alandica in Åland; the title role in Lisbeta, a role especially written for Ms. Asplund by Karólina Eiriksdóttirs, and the opera Djävulsdansen i Skarpans where she sung the role of Agatha Sipelius.

In the season of 2020/2021, Sofie made her role debut as Musetta in the Göteborg Opera’s live streamed production of La Bohème. She also appeared as Waldvogel in Siegfried on the same stage. The season before, Sofie sang Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro in Gothenburg and she appeared in guest performances as Gilda at the Norwegian National Opera’s production of Rigoletto. That same season also included several major concerts, amongst them Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra led by the esteemed Christoph Eschenbach, and solo appearances at the Nobel prize award ceremony.

In 2018/2019 Sofie sang her first Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Göteborg Opera, with great success and fantastic reviews. Sofie was a guest at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm as Constance in Dialogues des carmélites and Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and she participated in Barbara Hannigan’s Equilibrium young artists’ project where she sang Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress. The project included semi-staged performances in Munich with the Münchner Philharmoniker, as well as on a European tour with the Ludwig Orchestra visiting Paris, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Dresden and Dortmund, all performances led by Barbara Hannigan.

Sofie has previously appeared as Susanna and Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Olga Sukarev in Giordano’s Fedora and Oscar in Un ballo in Maschera at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. She has sung Erste Magd in Daphne at Staatsoper Hamburg and at the Opera in Basel. At the Malmö Opera, Sofie Asplund has sung Oscar, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier and Pousette in Manon. She has appeared as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Vixen in The cunning little vixen at the Läckö castle and as Carolina in Il matrimonio segreto at the Drottningholm Court Theatre. At the Vadstena Academy, Sofie has sung Lydia in Pride and Prejudice and Laura in Star Cross'd lovers. She has also sung Eurydice in Orphée aux Enfers by Offenbach in a staged concert in Uppsala together with the Drottningholm barock ensemble.

Sofie Asplund’s concert repertoire include Mozart’s Requiem, the Coronation Mass, Exultate Jubilate and Mass in C minor. She has sung Bach’s Magnificat, St John’s passion and St. Matthew passion, The Creation by Haydn, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Les Illuminations by Britten, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem and God in Disguise by Lars-Erik Larsson.

Sofie Asplund has also appeared in musical theatre roles including Maria in West Side Story and Christine in The Phantom of the Opera, which she has performed at the Finland National Opera and at the Göteborg Opera.

Sofie Asplund graduated from the Royal College of Opera in Stockholm in 2013. She has been engaged as a guest soloist at the Göteborg Opera, where she made her praised debut as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro. On the same stage, Sofie has performed her first Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Gilda in Rigoletto and Erste magd in a concert version of Daphne and Maria in West Side Story.

In 2018 Sofie Asplund was the first winner of the new singing competition the Schymberg Award. Sofie Asplund has been awarded the Sten A Olsson culture scholarship of 2018 and the Rosenborg-Gehrmansscholarship of 2015. In 2013 she was recipient of both Anders Wall and Birgit Nilsson scholarships. Sofie has also received scholarships from the Royal Music Academy of Sweden and the Drottningholm Court Theatre.

November 2022

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Sofie Asplund 1 - photo Marcus Boman photo by Marcus Boman
Sofie Asplund 3 - photo credit Andrea Asti photo by Andrea Asti
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Voices from the Press

"Sofie Asplund was an unforgettable Zerbinetta. Her stage presence was fizzing with outward mischief but she convincingly showed her true (and more complex) feelings in her tender meeting with the Composer... Ms Asplund’s heavenly coloratura simply soared without strain, with the shimmering sweetness of a lyrical soprano right to the top. Zerbinetta’s famous aria was genuinely moving, not just a technical showpiece.."  

Niklas Smith, Seen and Heard International, 2018-02-19

"Sofie Asplund was the page, Oscar. She is a brilliant coloratura soprano who gave a convincing interpretation. The director played on the gender confusion by dressing Oscar up as a woman during the masked ball, which provided an interesting twist. Asplud featured the best Italian pronunciation of the entire cast which, together with her vocal agility and pure tone colour, turned her performance into one of the highlights of the evening." 

Laura Servidel, Bachtrack 1 mars 2017

"Sofie Asplunds embodiement of Gilda is phenomenal, with a crystal clear timbre and an amazing melodic agility, especialy so in the major aria before the interval, where she soars limitlesly in her seductive infatuation. She owns the vocal acrobacy and the belcanto-pirouettes sound astonashingly natural."

Translated from Göteborgs­-Posten 17 april 2015

Press

  • "Sofie Asplund was an unforgettable Zerbinetta" - Read the review of Ariande på Naxos at the Göteborg Opera in 'Seen and Heard International', here
  • "Sofie Asplund s'empare du rôle d'Anne Trulove avec brio." - read the entire review of The Rake's Progress in Bachtrack, here

News Archive

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2022-09-19

Premiere of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Royal Swedish Opera!

Christina Nilsson, Johanna Rudström and Sofie Asplund in Ariadne auf Naxos in Stockholm!

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2022-02-17 photo by Lennart Sjöberg/GöteborgsOperan

Sofie Asplund and Anders Lorentzson in Herr Arnes penningar in Gothenburg

Sofie Asplund and Anders Lorentzson in Gösta Nyström's Herr Arnes penningar

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2021-08-27 photo by Klara G/Kungliga Operan

The Royal Swedish Opera reopens to the public with a star-studded Gala Evening

AnnLouice Lögdlund and Sofie Asplund joins some of Sweden’s foremost singers and musicians on stage for the 40 year celebration of...

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2021-08-14

The Göteborg Opera opens the season!

Sofie Asplund sings Zerbinetta at the Göteborg Opera's Festive Season opening.

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2020-09-01 photo by Marcus Boman

Sofie Asplund in the Göteborg Opera's La Bohème

Sofie Asplund sings her first Musetta in Gothenburg

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2021-01-26 photo by Max Jansson

Great reviews for Sofie Asplund and the album with music by Helena Munktell

The record label BIS releases the first music ever to be recorded with music by Helena Munktell, with Sofie Asplund as soprano soloist....

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