Ingrid Tobiasson

Ingrid Margareta Tobiasson (born February 2, 1951 in Stockholm) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano opera singer. Her premier roles in an extremely versatile career include the title role in Bizet's Carmen and Elisabetta in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda.

Career

The young Tobiasson attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School (Swedish: Adolf Fredriks Musikklasser), a school in Stockholm known for its song and choral curriculum. She received the Jussi Björling stipend in 2001[1] and was appointed Hovsångerska by Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in 2000.[2]

Tobiasson was employed at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1988, where she has sung numerous roles, including Carmen, a critically acclaimed Elisabetta in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda with guest appearances at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Omega in The Bacchae by Börtz, the Gatekeeper in A Dream Play by Lidholm, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, Ortrud in Lohengrin, Amneris in Aida, Kundry in Parsifal, Azucena in Il trovatore, Mrs Quickly in Falstaff, Klytemnestra in Elektra and Eboli in Don Carlos and the Countess in The Queen of Spades.[3]

The operatic repertoire also includes roles as Brigitta in Die tote Stadt, the Inn Hostess in Boris Godunov, Adalgisa in Norma and Fricka in Das Rheingold. In January 1998, Tobiasson sang Adalgisa in performances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Tobiasson has appeared at Malmö Opera and Music Theatre as Amneris in a series of performances of Aida that was also performed in France the summer of 2001. Tobiasson has sung the role of Klytemnestra in Elektra at Theatre de la Monnaie, the Oper Frankfurt and at Opéra de Rouen. She is a frequent guest with the leading orchestras in Scandinavia and Finland, and she sings alto and mezzo-soprano parts ranging from Händel's Messiah to Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand and contemporary music.[3]

In 2010 Tobiasson starred as Magdalena in the The Göteborg Opera's Meistersinger and Countess Coigny in Andrea Chénier at the Royal Swedish Opera In 2011 she sang Filipjevna in Eugene Onegin at The Göteborg Opera and Starenka Buryjovka in Janáček's Jenůfa at the Malmö Opera. Among Tobiasson's latest commitments are Countess in The Queen of Spades at the Royal Swedish Opera, Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand at the Katarina Church in Stockholm, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in the Stockholm Concert Hall, Bianca in Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia in Vattnäs Concert Barn and La Frugola in a concert performance of Puccini's Il Tabarro in the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. In the summer of 2013 she returned to Vattnäs Concert Barn for Bianca in The Rape of Lucretia. In 2014 she was singing Klytemnästra in Elektra at NorrlandsOperan in Umeå.[3]

Diskografi

Filmografi

References

  1. ↑ "Jussi Björling" (in Swedish). Stiftelsen Kungliga Teaterns Solister. Retrieved 2014-10-05.
  2. ↑ "Ingrid Tobiasson" (in Swedish). The Göteborg Opera. Retrieved 2014-10-05.
  3. 1 2 3 "Ingrid Tobiasson" (in Swedish). Eliasson Artists. Retrieved 2014-10-05.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Ingrid Tobiasson fonogram" (in Swedish). The Swedish Media Database (SMDB). Retrieved 2014-10-05.
  5. ↑ "Backanterna". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2014-10-05.
  6. ↑ "Möten i skymningen". Svensk Filmdatabas. Retrieved 2014-10-05.
  7. ↑ "Ingrid Tobiasson Filmography". Allmovie. Retrieved 2014-10-05.
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