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 opens the 2025/26 season as Donna Anna in a staged production of Don Giovanni with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván 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. At the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, she appears as the soloist in John Neumeier’s choreographed version of Strauss’ Four Last Songs. Concert engagements take her to a Nobel Prize gala in Stockholm, New Year’s concerts in Malmö, and to Lyon for Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony under Simone Young and Strauss’ Four Last Songs under Bertrand de Billy. She also returns to the Filarmonica TRT Torino for another performance of the Four Last Songs with Maestro de Billy.
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Highlights of recent seasons include the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) at Covent Garden and the Munich Opera Festival, Christine (Intermezzo) at Deutsche Oper Berlin and Semperoper Dresden, Daphne in Frankfurt, the Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier) at Grand Théâtre de Genève, Dutch National Opera Amsterdam, and Frankfurt, and leading roles such as Countess, Donna Anna, Marschallin, and Countess (Capriccio) at the Vienna State Opera. She has sung the Countess at the Opéra de Paris and Berlin State Opera, Donna Anna at Covent Garden, Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites) in Frankfurt, Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes) in Paris, Covent Garden, and Teatro Real Madrid, Rusalka, Clara in the world premiere of Christian Jost’s Egmont at Theater an der Wien, Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) in Hamburg and Naples under Riccardo Muti, and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at Berlin State Opera. She appeared as the soprano soloist in Calixto Bieito’s staged versions of Verdi’s Requiem (Hamburg) and Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Theater an der Wien), and sang the title role in the world premiere of Detlev Glanert’s Oceane at 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 University of Music in Freiburg. From 2000 to 2002, she was a member of the ensemble at the Volksoper Vienna, and from 2002 to 2007 at the Komische Oper Berlin, where she appeared in numerous leading roles in Kirill Petrenko’s landmark productions. Since 2007, she has worked as a freelance artist.
2025/26
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