{"id":6145,"date":"2025-05-14T18:31:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/erika-sunnegardh-soprano\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:31:20","slug":"erika-sunnegardh-soprano","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/erika-sunnegardh-soprano\/","title":{"rendered":"Erika Sunnegardh, soprano"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since her critically acclaimed operatic debut in 2004 in the role of Turandot<\/em> at the\u00a0Malm\u00f6 Opera<\/strong>, Swedish-American soprano Erika Sunneg\u00e5rdh<\/em><\/strong> has been establishing herself not only as one of the most versatile and exciting sopranos on the world stage,\u00a0but also earning a reputation for her fearless and emotionally nuanced\u00a0characterizations, and her intelligent and consummate musicianship.!<\/p>\n

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Ms. Sunneg\u00e5rdh has been particularly successful singing music of Strauss, Beethoven\u00a0and Puccini, performing the roles of Chrysotemis<\/em> at the Grand Te\u00e2tre Gen\u00e8ve<\/strong>; Salome<\/em>\u00a0with the Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro Communale di Bologna, Welsh National Opera,\u00a0<\/strong>the Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona<\/strong>, the New International Theatre<\/strong> in Tokyo, and with\u00a0Florentine Opera<\/strong> in Milwaukee; Leonore<\/em> in Fidelio<\/em> at Oper Frankfurt, the Metropolitan\u00a0<\/strong>Opera, Oper K\u00f6ln<\/strong> and the Florentine Opera<\/strong>; Tosca<\/em> at the Oper Frankfurt<\/strong>, Deutsche\u00a0<\/strong>Oper Berlin, Royal Stockholm Opera, Oper K\u00f6ln<\/strong> and Nashville Opera<\/strong>; and Turandot<\/em>\u00a0with the Deutsche Oper Berlin<\/strong>, the Metropolitan Opera<\/strong>, and in Sweden at the Malm\u00f6\u00a0<\/strong>Opera<\/strong> and Norrlandsoperan<\/strong> using the Berio-ending.<\/p>\n

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Other notable interpretations include Senta<\/em> in Der Fliegende Holl\u00e4nder<\/em> with Oper K\u00f6ln<\/strong>\u00a0and Atlanta Opera<\/strong>; and Jenufa<\/em> by Janacek, and Paulina<\/em> in the world premiere of Jonas\u00a0Forssell\u2019s Death and the Maiden<\/em> in Malm\u00f6<\/strong>. In Wagner\u2019s Die Walk\u00fcre<\/em>, Ms. Sunneg\u00e5rdh\u00a0has sung Helmwige<\/em> (Aix-en-Provence\/Salzburg<\/strong>) and Gerhilde<\/em> (Met Tour<\/strong>\/Japan), as\u00a0well as Isabella<\/em> in Das Liebesverbot<\/em> with the M\u00fcnchener Rundfunk<\/strong>.In concert she has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, Gewandhaus Orchestra\u00a0Leipzig, the RAI Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonic, Danish Philharmonic, Gothenburg\u00a0Symphony, Malm\u00f6 Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall,\u00a0Milwaukee Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, and\u00a0the percussion ensemble Kroumata; singing repertore incuding the Verdi Requiem<\/em>,\u00a0Mahler\u2019s Eighth Symphony<\/em>, Rossini Stabat Mater<\/em>, Zemlinsky\u2019s Lyric Symphony<\/em> and\u00a0Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony<\/em>, as well as opera in concert and newly commissioned\u00a0works.<\/p>\n

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Erika has had the pleasure and privilege of working with Marco Armiliato, Giordano\u00a0Bellincampi, Semyon Bychkov, Paolo Carignani, Riccardo Chailly, Myung Wun Chung,\u00a0James Conlon, Andreas Delfs, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoff Eschenbach, Adam Fischer,\u00a0Hartmut Haenchen, Lothar Koenigs, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Fabio Luisi, Nicola Luisotti,\u00a0Alan Gilbert, Gianandrea Noseda, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle, Stefan Soltesz,\u00a0Thomas S\u00f8ndergaard, Mario Venzago and Steven White.<\/p>\n

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During her education she attended the Israel Vocal Arts Institute, Tanglewood Music\u00a0Center, the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies, The International Institute of Vocal Arts, as well as the undergraduate program at the Manhattan School\u00a0of Music; all on scholarship.<\/p>\n

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In 1999 Erika completed her Master of Arts degree at the Aaron Copland School of\u00a0Music at Queens College after two profoundly inspiring and healing years there \u2013 an\u00a0experience to which she credits much of her present success.<\/p>\n

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During her education, Ms. Sunneg\u00e5rdh was a recipient of the annual Cultural Award of\u00a0the American Scandinavian Society, for the promotion of Scandinavian Culture in the\u00a0United States. She also founded In time with Music<\/strong>, a community outreach program\u00a0which benefited hundreds of public school children in Queens, New York.<\/p>\n

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