Elin Rombo

The Swedish soprano Elin Rombo will this season make her role debut as Gilda in Rigoletto at the Royal Swedish Opera, where she the previous season appeared two more new roles; Violetta in La traviata and Tytania in Britten’s A Midsummer Night's Dream. The spring will include one more role debut when Elin sings Klärchen in the operetta The White Horse Inn at Folkoperan in Stockholm.

Elin Rombo has been a frequent guest at the Royal Swedish Opera where her appearances include a wide range of roles; Cunégonde in Bernstein’s Candide, Régine Saint Laurent in Rufus Wainwright’s opera Prima Donna, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Hanna Glawari in Die Lustige Witwe, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Agnès in Written on Skin, Roxana in King Roger, Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites, Mimì and Musetta in La Bohème, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and the young Batsheba in the world premiere of Sven-David Sandström’s Batsheba.

Elin Rombo has previously been a guest at the Opéra National de Paris where she has sung Anicia Eritea in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo. At the Staatsoper Berlin, Elin has sung The Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, Cunégonde in Candide, and she has participated in AscheMOND oder The Fairy Queen. She has sung Agnès in Written on Skin at the Dutch National Opera, Roxana in King Roger at Teatr Wielki in Warsaw and Adina in L’elisir d’amore at the Göteborg Opera. At the Malmö Opera in the title role of Suor Angelica and as Iris in Catharina Backman’s new opera On the Other Side of the Sea. In Malm Elin has also sung Young Robert Lax in the world premiere at Malmö Opera of Philip Glass’ opera Circus Days and Nights, a co-production between Cirkus Cirkör and Malmö Opera.                 

Elin Rombo made her Salzburg Festival debut in the summer of 2009, singing 1st soprano in Luigi Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore under the baton of Ingo Metzmacher and later appeared in the Staatsoper Berlin revival at Kraftwerk Berlin. She has sung Leila in Les Pêcheurs de Perles at Folkoperan, Stockholm, Timante in Floridante at the Handel Festival in Halle, Zerlina in Don Giovanni with the Mattei Festival in Sweden, with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Daniel Harding and she appeared in the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s Dionysus in Salzburg and Staatsoper Berlin. Her roles at the Frankfurt Opera have included Servilia in La clemenza di Tito, Clorinda in La Cenerentola, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims.

Elin Rombo has a broad concert repertoire and has appeared with several of the world's most prominent orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem/Riccardo Muti), Orchestre de Paris (Schubert's Mass No 2 in G major, Mozart's Requiem/Sir Colin Davis/Festival de Saint-Denis), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Mozart's C Minor Mass), ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien (Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher/de Billy/Salzburger Festspiele) and the major Nordic orchestras.

Elin Rombo studied at the Brandon University Queen Elisabeth II in Canada and the University College of Opera in Stockholm, where she graduated in 2003. Already during her studies she made her debut as Christa in The Makropoulos Case at the Royal Swedish Opera. Elin was appointed Court Singer in 2013 and in 2016 she was awarded the medal Litteris et Artibus by the H.M. the Swedish King

November 2023