Swedish soprano Christina Nilsson will make a long-awaited comeback at the Royal Swedish Opera in the autumn of 2025 with a role that is closely associated with her: Aida. She will also make her role début as Liù in the Royal Swedish Opera's revival of Turandot in the spring of 2026.
The 2024/2025 season began at the Elbphilharmonie with Gurre-Lieder under the baton of Alan Gilbert, followed by Tosca at the Royal Swedish Opera and Aida at the Oper Frankfurt and at the State Opera in Prague. In the spring, Christina made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in the title role of Aida, and in the summer she made her role debut as Eva in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Bayreuth Festival under the baton of maestro Gatti. During the summer, she also sang the title role in the Birgit Nilsson Festival's outdoor production of Aida.
Christina Nilsson began the 2023/24 season with her role debut as Chrysothemis in Elektra at the Royal Swedish Opera, followed by another role debut as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser at the Oper Frankfurt. During the 2023/24 season, Christina has appeared in several concert productions, including Verdi's Requiem with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra/Alan Gilbert and Bruckner's Te Deum with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann. Christina Nilsson also made her house and role debut as Freya in Das Rheingold and as the Third Norn in Götterdämmerung in Bayreuth.
The 2022/23 season began with Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. On New Year's Eve, Christina made her role and house debut as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. The spring included another role debut, Tosca in Stockholm, followed by the title role in Aida at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.
The previous season Christina appeared in two roles at the Royal Swedish Opera, Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro and the title role in Aida. In the summer of 2021 Christina was a guest at the Tiroler Festspiele in Austria where she sang the role of Elsa von Brabant in Lohengrin. The season before included Aida in a concert version at Deutsche Oper and Christina also appeared in the star-studded Gala Concert Bolshoi and Plácido Domingo: Life in Opera at the Bolshoi Theatre.
In the season of 2017/18 Christina got her breakthrough with her role debut as Aida at The Royal Swedish Opera. Christina appeared in concerts with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, and she was a guest at the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy where she sang Strauss Vier letzte Lieder.
The following season Christina performed her first Ariadne at Oper Frankfurt, and at Opéra de Lausanne, as well as a guest appearance as Aida at the Irish National Opera. Christina Nilsson participated in the 2019 Operalia competition, where she was awarded third prize.
The season of 2019/20 Christina added two new roles to her repertoire; Elsa in Lohengrin which she performed at Theater Dortmund and Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Royal Swedish Opera. Christina has previously been a guest at the Opéra de Lyon.
In 2017 Christina Nilsson was awarded the First prize in the Renata Tebaldi International Voice Competition, and she received the First prize as well as the Audience's prize of the Wilhelm Stenhammar International Competition in 2016. Christina received the Birgit Nilsson Scholarship of 2015.
