Biography
Maria Bengtsson begins the 2023/24 season with Daphne in Claus Guth's successful production at Oper Frankfurt. At the Grand Théâtre de Genève she will sing the Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier) in Christoph Waltz's production. She will return to Deutsche Oper Berlin as Christine in Strauss' Intermezzo in a new production by Tobias Kratzer. At the Munich Opera Festival she can be heard as Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro). Concerts take her to Gothenburg with Berg's 7 Early Songs under Simone Young, to Pierre Boulez Saal in berlin with Beethoven's 9th Symphony under Antonello Manacorda, and to Antwerp for a New Year's Concert.
Highlights of recent seasons include Contessa (Nozze di Figaro), Marschallin (Rosenkavalier) and Countess (Capriccio) at the Vienna State Opera, Contessa at the Opéra de Paris, Donna Anna at Covent Garden London, Blanche in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites at the Frankfurt Opera, Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes) at the Opéra de Paris, Covent Garden and the Teatro Real Madrid, Rusalka as well as Clara in the world premiere of Christian Jost's Egmont at the Theater an der Wien, Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte) at the Staatsoper Hamburg and at the Teatro San Carlo Naples under the baton of Riccardo Muti, Pamina (Zauberflöte) at the Berlin Staatsoper, the soprano in Calixto Bieito's staged version of Verdi's Messa da Requiem at the Staatsoper Hamburg as well as in his staged interpretation of Mendelssohn's Elias at the Theater an der Wien and the title role in the world premiere of Detlev Glanert's opera Oceane at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She sang at the Birgit Nilsson Prize 2022 for Yo- Yo Ma at the Konserthuset in Stockholm.
As a concert and Lieder singer the Swedish soprano has made guest performances at festivals and in concert halls such as the Berliner Festspiele, the Konzerthaus and the Musikverein in Vienna, the Gewandhaus Leipzig,the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Teatro Nacional Sao Carlo in Lisbon, at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt and Oper Frankfurt. In addition to that she has performed in concerts with the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo under the baton of Simone Young with Beethoven’s Symphony No.9, with the Beethoven Orchester Bonn with Strauss’ Four Last Songs, at the Konzerthaus Berlin, with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Kirill Petreko in Tel Aviv as well as with the Hamburger Philharmoniker under Bertrand de Billy. Celebrating the inauguration of Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Ms. Bengtsson was invited to perform Mendelssohn´s Lobgesang under the baton of Thomas Hengelbrock.
Ms. Bengtsson studied at the University of Music in Freiburg. From 2000 until 2002, she was an ensemble member of the Volksoper Wien and from 2002 to 2007 of the Komische Oper Berlin where she sang the leading parts in many of Kirill Petrenko’s most important productions. Since 2007, Maria Bengtsson has been active as a freelance artist.
She has appeared as a guest at the Opéra de Paris, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Deutsche Opera in Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the State Opera in Hamburg, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Festival in Salzburg and Aix en Provence and at Oper Frankfurt, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Oper Köln, Opéra National de Lyon, Teatro la Fenice, Vlaamse Opera and the Theater an der Wien.
2022/23