Maria Bengtsson
soprano
Maria Bengtsson begins the 2024/25 season as Christine in the new production of Intermezzo at the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden. Following her extraordinary success last season, she can also be heard in this role in the revival of the opera at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. At the Royal Opera House London she will sing La Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro). The Vienna State Opera presents the artist as Donna Anna in the Don Giovanni guest performance at the Opéra de Monaco. Maria Bengtsson returns to the Frankfurt Opera in her signature role of the Rosenkavalier-Marschallin and makes a guest appearance as Nozze-Contessa at Münchner Opernfestspiele.
Highlights of recent seasons include Daphne at the Frankfurt Opera, Marschallin (Rosenkavalier) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Contessa (Nozze di Figaro), Marschallin (Rosenkavalier) and Gräfin (Capriccio) at the Vienna State Opera, Contessa at the Opéra de Paris and the Staatsoper Berlin, Donna Anna at Covent Garden London, Blanche in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites at the Frankfurt Opera, Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte) at the Hamburg State Opera and at the Teatro San Carlo Naples under the direction of Riccardo Muti, Pamina (Zauberflöte) at the Berlin State Opera, and the title role in the world premiere of Detlev Glanert's opera Oceane at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Maria Bengtsson studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg. From 2000 to 2002 she was a member of the ensemble at the Volksoper in Vienna, and from 2002 to 2007 she was a member of the ensemble at the Komische Oper in Berlin, where she appeared in the leading roles under Kirill Petrenko in many of his most important productions.
Since that time Maria Bengtsson has appeared, among others at the Opéra de Paris, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, La Scala in Milan, the Bolshoi in Moscow, the Vienna State Opera, the Salzburg and Aix en Provence Festivals, as well as the Frankfurt Opera, the Opéra National de Lyon, the Teatro la Fenice, and the Theater an der Wien.
