Maria Bengtsson
Oper Frankfurt - Der Rosenkavalier
The Swedish soprano Maria Bengtsson sang a Marschallin with an almost otherworldly vocal beauty: What magnificent, wonderfully cleanly intoned, floating pianos, phrases of outstanding sonic beauty and unaffected, haunting simplicity. Magnificent.
Oper aktuell (11.04.2025)
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Intermezzo
It is admirable that Bengtsson sustains this demanding role without tiring and brings it across the stage in a sophisticated manner in every detail. In addition to her acting, her strengths lie in the elastically placed, silky shimmering high notes. In the endless cantilenas, some of which are written in a stratospheric range, Bengtsson offers pure vocal luxury. The tones flow sul fiato with an almost brazen lightness.
Online Merker (April 25, 2024)Season 25/26 and Highlights
PALACE OF ARTS BUDAPEST
Mozart - Don Giovanni - Donna Anna
PREMIERE Sep 9
Sep 11/12
FESTSPIELHAUS BADEN-BADEN
Strauss - Four Last Songs
Oct 10/11/12
TEATRO OLIMPICO VICENZA
Mozart - Don Giovanni - Donna Anna
Oct 3, Nov 1/2
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NOBEL PRIZE GALA
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Dec 10
MALMO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
New Year´s concerts
Dec 30/31
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE LYON
Zemlinsky - Lyric Symphony - Soprano
Jan 29/30
Strauss - Four Last Songs - Soprano
Apr 3/4
FILARMONICA TRT TORINO
Strauss - Four Last Songs - Soprano
March 23
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN LONDON
Britten - Peter Grimes - Ellen Orford
May 5/8/12/15/21/25/28
Biography
Maria Bengtsson begins the 2025/26 season as Donna Anna in a staged production of Don Giovanni by the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer at the Palace of Arts Budapest and the Teatro Olimpico Vicenza. She returns to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes . Festspielhaus Baden-Baden has engaged her as a soloist for the version of Strauss's Four Last Songs choreographed by John Neumeier. Concert engagements have taken the soprano to Stockholm for a Nobel Prize gala, Malmö for the New Year's Concerts, Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony under Simone Young, Strauss's Four Last Songs under Bertrand de Billy to Lyon, and Strauss's Four Last Songs at the Filarmonica TRT Torino, once again with Maestro de Billy.
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Highlights of recent seasons include the Contessa in Nozze di Figaro at Covent Garden London and the Munich Opera Festival, Christine in Intermezzo in productions of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden, Daphne at the Oper Frankfurt , Marschallin ( Rosenkavalier ) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as well as at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam and the Oper Frankfurt , Contessa ( Nozze di Figaro ), Donna Anna, Marschallin ( Rosenkavalier ) and Countess ( Capriccio ) at the Vienna State Opera, Contessa at the Opéra de Paris and the Berlin State Opera, Donna Anna at Covent Garden London, Blanche in Poulenc 's Dialogues des Carmelites at the Oper Frankfurt , Ellen Orford ( Peter Grimes ) at the Opéra de Paris, Covent Garden and at the Teatro Real Madrid , Rusalka and Clara in the world premiere of Christian Jost's Egmont at the Theater an der Wien, Fiordiligi ( Cosi fan tutte) at the Hamburg State Opera and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples under the direction of Riccardo Muti, Pamina ( The Magic Flute ) at the Berlin State Opera, the soprano in Calixto Bieito's staged version of Verdi's Messa da Requiem at the Hamburg State Opera and in his staged interpretation of Mendelssohn's Elias at the Theater an der Wien and the title role in the world premiere of the opera Oceane by Detlev Glanert at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
As a concert singer and song interpreter, the Swedish singer has performed at the Carinthian Summer, the Berlin Festival, the Vienna Concert Hall, the Musikverein Wien , at the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, at the Brucknerhaus Linz, at the Klangbogen Festival Vienna, at the Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, at the Teatro Nacional Sao Carlos Lisbon and at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt as well as the Oper Frankfurt Recent concert appearances have included Barber's Knoxville with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Strauss's Four Last Songs with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra under Simone Young, Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Simone Young, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Berg 's Seven Early Songs with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Potsdam with Beethoven's 9th Symphony under Antonello Manacorda, and Antwerp for a New Year's Concert. Maria Bengtsson has also performed with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Kirill Petrenko in Mendelssohn's Elijah , with the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo under Simone Young in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 , in Antwerp with the Four Last Songs under Bertrand de Billy, in the Konzerthaus Berlin, with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Kirill Petrenko in Tel Aviv as well as with the Hamburg Philharmonic under Bertrand de Billy and on the occasion of the opening of the Elbphilharmonie under Thomas Hengelbrock with Mendelssohn's Lobgesang .
Maria Bengtsson studied at the Freiburg University of Music. From 2000 to 2002 she was a member of the Volksoper in Vienna, and from 2002 to 2007, she was a member of the ensemble at the Komische Oper Berlin, where she performed leading roles in many of Kirill Petrenko's most important productions. Since 2007, the artist has worked freelance.
2025/26
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