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Portrait of Elísabet Einarsdóttir

BIOGRAPHY

A soprano based in the Nordics

The soprano Elisabet Einarsdottir grew up in Gothenburg. She trained in classical singing at the Reykjavik Academy of Music, and then at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan as well as the Malmö Opera Academy.

Her opera repertoire includes both lyrical and dramatic coloratura roles from all eras, all from Handel through Mozart and Donizetti to Strauss and contemporary music. She is also passionate about chamber music and modern music.

Education
Iceland University of the Arts in Reykjavík, Verdi Conservatory in Milan, Malmö Opera Academy
Based at
Malmö Opera
Voice type
Coloratura soprano

ROLES PERFORMED

Selected roles

Career

Elisabet has been engaged at Malmö Opera, where she has performed roles including Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte, Titania in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Aspasia in Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto — a production that was also staged at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen. She has also taken part in numerous tours, gala concerts, singalong evenings, and the Malmö Festival through Malmö Opera.

Other roles she has performed include Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Despina in Così fan tutte, Norina in Don Pasquale, Minette in the operetta La chatte métamorphosée en femme by Offenbach at opera houses like Kurtheater Bad Ems in Germany, Teatro Titano in San Marino, Ekhofteater in Gotha in Germany, and at the Vadstena Academy. She has also sung in operetta performances for three summers with Kammaropera Syds’s productions at Ystad Theatre.

As a concert singer, Elisabet has performed works including Mozart's Mass in C minor, Coronation Mass and Exsultate Jubilate, Haydn's The Creation, Orff's Carmina Burana, Handel's Messiah, Larsson's Förklädd Gud (God in Disguise) and Bach's Magnificat, among others alongside the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and the Malmö Opera Orchestra.

Elisabet also has a broad chamber music repertoire and works regularly with pianists Albert Van Pham and Giuliano Guidone. She is furthermore an active interpreter of contemporary and modern music, and has premiered numerous works by contemporary composers — including Bára Gísladóttir's performance opera Cooler Stars Glow Red (Spor Festival 2025) and Carl Unander-Scharin's opera The Tale of the Great Computing Machine (Reaktorhallen, Stockholm, 2022).

“An extraordinarily precise coloratura soprano”
Sofia Nyblom, Dagens Nyheter

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