Maria Sanner
Maria Sanner is internationally active as an alto singer on opera and concert stages with a repertoire ranging from early to contemporary music. At the Royal Swedish Opera, she made her debut in 2017 as Elizabetha in Dracula by Borisova-Ollas. She returned in the spring of 2022 in Short Stories III and in the spring of 2024 she will be featured in Löftet and Parsifal.
Her most recent opera performances include the title role in Handel's Giulio Cesare at Opera North in Leeds, Orpheus in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and the title role in Argenore by Wilhelmina von Bayreuth at Confidencen in Stockholm and Eva in Martinù's Comedy on a Bridge and Pluto in Where Are You Proserpine by Kraus at Malmö Opera.
Other operatic roles that Maria has sung include the title role in Il Giasone by Cavalli at the Drottningholm Court Theatre, the Third Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at Dalhalla Opera and several premiere performances of operas by composer Carl Unander-Scharin (The Elephant Man, Norrlandsoperan; Sing the body electric, Cape Town Opera, Byrgitta, Vadstena-Akademien).
With extensive experience as a concert singer and an extensive repertoire – everything from the small and large church works by Bach, Handel and Mozart to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Brahms’ Altrapsodie and to modern works such as Ligeti's Aventure – Maria has performed on most of Sweden's major concert stages and abroad.
Maria received her education at the Royal Institute of Technology. The Royal College of Music (undergraduate studies in 2001 and soloist diploma in 2004) and the University College of Opera in Stockholm (master's degree in 2012).