Sofie Asplund

At GöteborgsOperan, Sofie Asplund has performed a wide range of roles since her debut in 2014, including Zerlina in Don Giovanni, La Folie in Platée, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Musetta in La Bohème, Aminta in Die schweigsame Frau, the Forest Bird in Siegfried, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Gilda in Rigoletto, and the First Maid in a concert performance of Strauss’ Daphne, a role she has also performed at the opera houses in Basel and Hamburg. At GöteborgsOperan, Asplund has also appeared in musical theatre roles such as Maria in West Side Story and Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera, a role she has also performed at the Finnish National Opera. Asplund has been a frequent guest at the Royal Swedish Opera, where her roles have included Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Susanna and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, Olga Sukarev in Fedora, and Oscar in Un ballo in maschera. At Den Norske Opera, she has performed as Gilda in Rigoletto and Cunegonde in Candide. At Drottningholm Palace Theatre, she has appeared as Arianna in Vivaldi’s Il Giustino. In 2019, Sofie Asplund made her role debut as Anne Truelove in The Rake’s Progress with the Münchner Philharmoniker, as part of Barbara Hannigan’s “Equilibrium Young Artists” project. Other notable roles include Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier and Pousette in Manon (Malmö Opera), Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen (Läckö Castle Opera), and Carolina in Il matrimonio segreto (Drottningholm Palace Theatre). Asplund is also a sought-after concert singer, having performed at venues such as Gothenburg Concert Hall, Malmö Live, Stockholm Concert Hall, and Berwaldhallen. Her repertoire includes works such as Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, and Britten’s Les Illuminations, which she recorded and released in 2021. She has also performed Bach’s St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion, Haydn’s The Creation, Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Förklädd Gud by Lars-Erik Larsson. In 2022, she was awarded the Order of the White Rose of Finland by the President of Finland for her artistic achievements as an opera singer. In 2018, she received the Sten A. Olsson Cultural Scholarship and won the Hjördis Schymberg Competition. Sofie Asplund is also a recipient of the Anders Wall and Birgit Nilsson Scholarships and has been awarded grants from institutions such as the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, Friends of Drottningholm Theatre, Gehrmans Music Publishing, and the Royal Swedish Opera.