Karolina Bengtsson
soprano
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Karolina Bengtsson joined Oper Frankfurt's Ensemble in 2023/24, during which she jumped in at short notice to sing Barbarina in the new Le nozze di Figaro and enjoyed great success with Silvia, Belisa & a Young Shepherd in new productions of Mozart's Ascanio in Alba, Fortner's Don Perlimplím's love for Belisa in his Garden and Wagner's Tannhäuser, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and 1st Maid in our unforgettable production of Strauss' Daphne. During the 2025/26 season she sings Fiordiligi and a Young Woman in new productions of Cosí fan tutte and Fortner's Bluthochzeit / Blood Wedding and Pipetta / Duchess and Sophie in revivals of Offenbach's The Bandits and Massenet's Werther - role debuts. Last season she sang Aljeja and a Lady-in-waiting for the first time, in Janáček's From the House of the Dead and a new production of Macbeth, and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro. Her roles while a member of our Opera Studio, which she joined in 2021/22, included Clotilde (Norma), Frasquita (Carmen), Second Woman (Dido and Aeneas), 2nd Maid (new production of Luigi Dallapiccola's Ulisse) and Suor Osmina (Suor Angelica), Papagena and Isaura in new productions of Die Zauberflöte and Mercadante's Francesca da Rimini, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and a Cock / Jay in The Cunning Little Vixen. She studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and Mozarteum in Salzburg, where teachers included Barbara Bonney, who guided her through her masters degree, and where she sang her first Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. Karolina Bengtsson reached the finals of the 2021 Anny Schlemm Competition, won prizes at the International Haydn Competition for Classic Lieder and Arias in Rohrau, the 2020 Singing Competition in Weikersheim and the international »Meistersinger von Nürnberg « singing competition.