Swedish soprano Julia Sporsén is the 2023 recipient of Svenska Dagbladet’s Operapris, which was awarded to her after her success as the title role in Norma at Folkoperan in 2022.
Last season she sang the role of Paulina Salas Death and the Maiden at Malmö Opera, Verdi Requiem with the Jönköping Sinfonietta, a new work by Maria Lithell Flyg at the Västerås Konserthus, performances with RUSK Chamber Music at Schumann Hall in Finland, and a programme of Rangström, Stenhammar and Sibelius with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Further recent highlights include a return to Scottish Opera as Pat Nixon Nixon in China, Elsalill in Herr Arnes Penningar, Waltraute in Die Walküre, Ingeborg in Elfrida Andrés opera Fritiofs saga and Desdemona in Otello at the Göteborg Opera, Judith in Bluebeard's Castle and Isolde Tristan and Isolde at the Folkoperan in Stockholm.
In 2021/22, she took up the position of Artist in Residence at Kulturhuset Spira in Jönköping.