Kari Koskinen is a mezzo-soprano, born and raised in Bjursås outside Falun. She fell in love with opera as a child and began singing at the age of 9. She has previously studied at the Music Conservatory in Falun, the Vadstena Song and Piano Academy and the Opera Department at the Stockholm University of the Arts. She made her operatic debut in the summer of 2019 as the third lady in Mozart's The Magic Flute at Opera på Skäret in Kopparberg and has also been awarded the prestigious Joel Berglund Scholarship. She has also received a scholarship from the Erik Grudd Foundation and the Royal Academy of Music.
Kari completed her studies at the Opera Department at the Stockholm University of the Arts in 2023, where she sang selected roles such as the Witch in Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck, Carmen in Carmen by George Bizet and Musetta in Ruggero Leoncavallo's La bohème. In the spring of 2023, she performed the Trollkvinnan in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Madame de la Haltière in Jules Massenet's Cendrillon in her final production, which was staged at the Folkoperan in Stockholm.
Among the roles that Kari has sung in recent seasons are the Third Lady in Mozart's Di Zauberflöte at the Folkoperan in Stockholm and at Uppsala City Theatre. Also the Third Flower Maiden in Wagner's Parsifal and the Dryad in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, both at the Royal Swedish Opera. And also in concert as a mezzo soloist with the Dalasinfoniettan in J.S. Bach's Weihnachtsoratorium in Dalarna.
Kari made her debut at the Royal Swedish Opera in 2022 in Ariadne auf Naxos. In the spring of 2026, she will sing the role of Milly in Franz Schreker's Der ferne Klang, a production that, like Parsifal, was directed by Christof Loy.
