Elisabeth Meyer

Swedish-Swiss soprano Elisabeth Meyer has this season made her role debut as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at Uppsala Stadsteater. Elisabeth has also appeared in the role of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Royal Swedish Opera. The previous season Elisabeth was a guest at Folkoperan in Stockholm where she sang Elisabetta in Don Carlos. She was also the soloist in concert versions of the Chamber Opera Karolinas sömn / The sleep of Karolina by Anders Eliasson at Norrlandsoperan and at the stage of Artipelag, Stockholm.

In 2020/21 Elisabeth was the soloist in the live broadcast of the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony and she sang Fauré Requiem with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, broadcasted from Berwaldhallen Play. The season before, Elisabeth Meyer appeared as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at Norrlandsoperan in Sweden. She also sang the role of Manda in the contemporary opera Kärleksmaskinen by Johan Ullén with the Piteå Chamber Opera.

Elisabeth Meyer has been a guest at the Royal Swedish Opera in several productions. She appeared in the role of Mina in the world premiere and the following revival of the opera Dracula, composed by Victoria Borisova-Ollas. She has sung Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Adèle in Die Fledermaus and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni.  

At Folkoperan in Stockholm, Elisabeth Meyer has sung the roles of Olympia, Antonia and Giulietta in Les Contes d’Hoffmann. She has appeared as Musetta in La Bohème and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at Opera Hedeland in Denmark and as Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel at the Gothenburg Opera. At the Drottningholm Court Theatre, Elisabeth Meyer has sung Arbate in Mozart’s Mitridate, Re di Ponto, Ginerva in Händel’s Ariodante and the Candlesnuffer in the jubilee opera the Rococo Machine, all at the Drottningholm Court Theatre.

Earlier seasons include Pamina at the Malmö Opera, as well as the title role in J.M. Kraus’ Proserpin at Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci and Lizzy in Daniel Nelson’s Pride and Prejudice at the Vadstena Academy.

Elisabeth Meyer studied at the Royal College of Music and the University College of Opera in Stockholm where she graduated in 2010. She continued at the Dutch National Opera Academy in Amsterdam and in the season 2011/2012 she was a member of the Internationales Opernstudio at the Opernhaus Zürich. During her studies Elisabeth performed complete roles such as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Giulietta in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, the title role in Massenet’s Manon, Adina in L'elisir d'amore, Poppea in L'incoronazione di Poppea, Choryphée in Rossini’s Le Compte Ory, Helena in Britten’s A Midsummernight’s Dream, Thérèse in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Créuse in Charpentier’s Medée.

Elisabeth Meyer’s many concert performances include Bach’s Jauchzet Gott, Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat, St Matthew and St John's Passion and Mass in B minor, Britten’s Les Illuminations, Fauré’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C minor, Brahms’ Ein Deutches Requiem, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Die Jahreszeiten, Kleine Orgelmesse and Missa Brevis in F, Händel’s Messiah and Solomon, Mendelssohn’s Paulus, Hear my prayer and Salve Regina, Rheinberger’s Der Stern von Betlehem, Rutter’s Magnificat, Schubert and D. Scarlatti’s Salve Regina, Saint Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio and L-E Larsson's God in disguise.

Elisabeth received a number of scholarships, including the renowned Swiss Student Singing Award in 2008 and the Special Soloist-Prize 2010, both by Migros-Kulturprozent. She was awarded the Swedish Christina Nilsson-Scholarship in 2009, the Martin Öhman-Scholarship in 2011. Elisabeth has received the 2018 Birgit Nilsson scholarship, as well as the Richard Brodin scholarship from the Royal Opera in Stockholm and the 2018 Stockholm Stad Culture Grant.

April 2023