Alto Maria Sanner is active as an opera and concert singer both in Sweden and internationally, with a repertoire that ranges from early to contemporary music.
In the summer of 2017, Maria sang the role of Orpheus in Confidencen's production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, and in the fall she made her debut at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, as Elizabetha in Dracula. In the spring of 2018, she appeared in Var är du Proserpine? at Malmö Opera/Operaverkstan, and in the summer of 2018, she could be seen again as Orpheus at Confidencen.
Maria has also appeared in the critically acclaimed Ligetiland and the production of Philip Glass's opera Satyagraha at Folkoperan, at concerts at the Poznan Baroque Festival with the ensemble Kore (music by Handel and Vivaldi, Scarlatti and Pergolesi) and with the Polish ensemble Arte dei Suonatori (in J.A. Hasse's serenade Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra) at the Opera Rara festival in Krakow.
Her previous opera appearances include title roles at Drottningholm Theatre (Cavalli's Il Giasone) and Folkoperan (Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto), several premieres of newly written and often innovative operas - such as Carl Unander-Scharin's The Elephant Man at Norrlandsoperan and his Sing the body electric at R1 and in collaboration with Cape Town Opera.
At the Royal Swedish Opera, Maria Sanner has in recent years sung in newly written works such as Mats Larsson Goethe's The Promise and the Short Stories works Taro and My Turn Now, as well as in Wagner's Parsifal (Voice from Above, Eine Stimme) in 2024. In the 2024/2025 season she sings Third Wood Nymph in Rusalka.
