Julia Sporsén Soprano

Swedish soprano Julia Sporsén is known for staged performance of lieder by R. Strauss, the intensity with which she portrays her Berg and Schönberg, with performances characters. Her performances have been around the United Kingdom including the described as “fiery” (Opera Magazine), Leeds Lieder Festival. “searing” (The Sunday Times), and “almost unbearably moving” (The Spectator), and she Julia has worked with conductors including is praised for her virtuosic and expressive Sir Colin Davis, Joana Carneiro, Edward singing as well as her stage presence and Gardner, Karen Kamensek, Sian Edwards, captivating acting skills. Mark Wigglesworth, Stuart Stratford and Santtu-Matias Rouvali. In 2009 Julia made her debut at English National Opera, soon becoming an ENO The daughter of two opera singers, Julia read Harewood Artist. Her many roles with the drama at Gothenburg University, followed by company have included Katya in Weinberg’s three years at the Operastudio67 in The Passenger, Livia in Glanert’s Caligula, Stockholm. She studied privately with Rosalinde Die Fledermaus, and the title role Susanna Rigacci in Florence, followed by in Martinu’s Julietta. She has also created postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of two roles in world premieres: Julia in Torsten Music in London with Joy Mammen and Iain Rasch’s The Duchess of Malfi and Antigone in Ledingham, where she graduated with the Julian Anderson’s The Thebans. The directors highest award, DipRAM. She has since been she has worked with there include David elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Pountney, Christopher Alden, Richard Jones Music (ARAM). She was also the winner of the “Julia Sporsén has a thrillingly and Pierre Audi. Opera Rara Patric Schmidt Bel Canto Prize and the Flora Nielsen Song Prize. powerful voice – a core of steel In 2012 she made her debut at the Royal Swedish Opera singing Micaëla Carmen. Recent and future highlights include a return wrapped in a casing of velvet.” Appearances in her native Sweden also to Scottish Opera as Pat Nixon Nixon in China include Violetta La Traviata for Folksoperan and Fleana in Zingari, Fox Gold-Spur The Warwick Thompson, Metro in Stockholm as well as the roles of Kumudha Cunning Little Vixen with Opera Holland in John Adams’s A Flowering Tree, Micaëla, Park, Young Girl in Schoenberg’s Moses and Pamina Die Zauberflöte and Elsalill in Gösta Aaron at the George Enescu Festival in Nyström’s Herr Arne Penningar, at Göteborg Budapest, Ingeborg in Elfrida Andrés opera Opera. Fritiofs saga, and Waltraute in Die Walküre at Gothenburg Opera, and a return to Julia enjoys a close relationship with Opera Folkoparen in Stockholm for Isolde Tristan Holland Park, where roles have included the and Isolde. title role of Kat’a Kabanova, Micaëla, Gilda Rigoletto and Nedda Pagliacci, all to critical In 2021/22, she takes up the position of Artist acclaim. Notable appearances elsewhere in Residence at Kulturhuset Spira in include Tebaldo Don Carlos for Opera North Jönköping, Sweden. in a production that has been recorded for

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Other roles include Vitellia La clemenza di Tito, Donna Elvira Don Giovanni, Mimì La bohème, Arminda La Finta Giardiniera, Armida Rinaldo, Adina L’Elisir d’Amore, Iphise in Rameau’s Dardanus with Laurence Cummings, and the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta with Steuart Bedford. Notable concert engagements include appearances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, London Mozart Players, Göteborg Symfoniker and Göteborg Wind Orchestra. She has given recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Joseph Middleton and has also toured with a one-woman show “Dreamlives” for the Liederkreis company: a

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