Elisabeth Meyer

Swedish-Swiss soprano Elisabeth Meyer is this season engaged at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, where she takes part in the dramatization of Thunström's novel Juloratoriet/The Christmas Oratorio.

The 2025/26 season will see Elisabeth opening with the title role in Tosca at Folkoperan in Stockholm.

In recent seasons, she has portrayed Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at Uppsala Stadsteater and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Royal Swedish Opera. She has also performed Elisabetta in Don Carlos at Folkoperan and appeared as the soloist in concert versions of Anders Eliasson’s chamber opera Karolinas sömn (The Sleep of Karolina) at Norrlandsoperan and Artipelag in Stockholm.

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.

Additional engagements include Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at Norrlandsoperan, Manda in Johan Ullén’s contemporary opera Kärleksmaskinen with Piteå Chamber Opera, and Olympia, Antonia, and Giulietta in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Folkoperan. Elisabeth has also portrayed Musetta in La Bohème and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at Opera Hedeland in Denmark, as well as Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel at the Gothenburg Opera.

At the Drottningholm Court Theatre, she has performed Arbate in Mozart’s Mitridate, Re di Ponto, Ginevra in Händel’s Ariodante, and the Candlesnuffer in the jubilee opera The Rococo Machine.

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

Elisabeth Meyer studied at the Royal Academy 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 2011/12 she was a member of the Internationales Opernstudio at the Opernhaus Zürich.

Elisabeth Meyer’s many concert performances include Bach’s Jauchzet Gott, Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat, St Matthew, 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 Meyer appeared at the Nobel Prize celebrations both in 2023, when she was featured in the live broadcast divertissement at the banquet, and in 2020, when she was the soloist during the live broadcast of the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.

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.

January 2025