Åsa Jäger is a young, dramatic soprano. She studied at the University College of Opera in Stockholm and graduated with honors in 2015.
In 2024, Åsa Jäger made her Swedish Wagner debut singing Senta in The Flying Dutchman at the Göteborg Opera, for which she was awarded the prestigious Opera Award from the Swedish magazine Tidskriften Opera. Further engagements in 2024/2025 included a tour through Europe, as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre with Kent Nagano and Concerto Köln, performing among other places in Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Dresdner Musikfestspiele and at the Lucerne festival. In 2025 she will once again appear as Senta, this time at Landestheater Coburg. Additionally, she begins preparation to make her 2025-26 debut in the title role Tristan und Isolde.
In 2022 Åsa Jäger made her German Wagner- and role debut at Landestheater Coburg, as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre. She ended up on Alex Ross‘s short list in The New Yorker of notable performances during 2022 In 2023 she returned to Landestheater Coburg and continued the Ring-cycle by portraying Brünnhilde in Siegfried.
Åsa Jäger has worked with conductors such as Kent Nagano, Daniel Carter, Alevtina Ioffe, Aivis Greters, Anja Bihlmaier and Patrik Ringborg and she has performed with orchestras such as the Dresdner Festspielorchester, Concerto Köln, The Royal Swedish Orchestra, the Norrlandsoperan Symphony Orchestra, the Gävle Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Wind Ensemble, KammarensembleN, the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra. In addition to the traditional opera repertoire, she also sings contemporary music. In the last couple of years she has made three first performances of short operas, including Om människan/On Humanity with Kammarensemblen at Folkoperan in Stockholm.
Åsa Jäger has received a number of prestigious awards, including the Anders Wall’s Giresta scholarship and the Swedish and Danish Wagner societies' Bayreuth scholarships in 2015 and 2022. She was also a recipient of the Royal Academy of Musics national scholarship for five years in a row 2012-2017.