Hanna Husáhr
Swedish soprano Hanna Husáhr has this autumn made her role debut as Gilda in Rigoletto at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. This was followed by another new role on the same stage - Ava in the world premiere of the contemporary opera The Promise by Mats Larsson Gothe. This spring include two more role debuts in Stockholm; Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and Genovieffa in Suor Angelica.
The previous season Hanna Husáhr sang Britten’s Les Illuminations at The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at Konserthuset Stockholm, a concert led by Andrew Manze. Hanna also appeared in the Swedish Television documentary Christina Nilsson – The Magic Voice and the following tribute concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra led by Tobias Ringborg, also filmed for the Swedish Television. The season 2019-2020 included Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Royal Swedish Opera and Woglinde in Das Rheingold at Den Ny Opera in Denmark.
Hanna Husáhr studied at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (BMus), The Opera School in Gothenburg and Stockholm Opera Studio. She continued her studies as a trainee at the Finnish National Opera. She made her operatic debut in 2009 as Leïla in Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles at Folkoperan. Since then, she has sung many roles at venues such as the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, Bergen Nationale Opera, Malmö Opera, The Royal Opera of Versailles, Drottningholm Court Theatre, the Latvian National Opera and at Opera på Skäret in Sweden, Kilden Opera in Kristiansand, and at the Musikfestspiele at Potsdam Sanssouci. She is also often engaged as a concert singer.
Her repertory is broad: from baroque (Händel, Rameau) to classicism (Mozart, Haydn) to the Italian, German, French and Russian operas of the romantic period, on to the modern classics of the 20th century (Janáček, Britten) and contemporary composers (John Adams, Mats Larsson Gothe). And not just opera – she has sung in oratorios by Bach and Brahms.
Hanna Husáhr was awarded the 2021 Schymberg scholarship. In 2017 Hanna Husáhr received the Birgit Nilsson Scholarship, the Håkan Mogren Award and the Royal Opera Friends Scholarship. She was awarded the Christina Nilsson Scholarship in 2013 and the Jussi Björling Award in 2011. Hanna was also awarded the Mozart Prize in the 2016 Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition.