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The Swedish soprano, Elin Rombo (née Karlsson), grew up in a musical family and studied at the esthetics program at De Geergymnasiet in Norrköping. She then continued her education in Canada at Brandon University Queen Elisabeth II, and at Operahögskolan in Stockholm (University College of Opera), where she graduated in 2003. Already during her studies she made her debut as Christa in Janáček's The Makropoulos Case at the Royal Swedish Opera. In 2009, she received the prestigious Birgit Nilsson Scholarship. In November 2013 she was named Court Singer and in 2016 she was awarded the medal Litteris et Artibus by the Swedish King.
Elin Rombo's appearances at the Royal Swedish Opera have included Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Donna Elvira in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Blanche in Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, Musetta in La Bohème, Fiordiligi in W.A. Mozart's Così fan Tutte, Mimì in La Bohème, Susanna in W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro and the young Batsheba in the world premiere of Sven-David Sandström’s Batsheba.
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 Deutsche Staatsoper revival at Kraftwerk Berlin. She has sung Leila in Georges Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de Perles at Folkoperan, Stockholm, Timante in Floridante at the Handel Festival in Halle, Zerlina in W.A. Mozart's 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 at the revival with Staatsoper Berlin. Her roles at the Frankfurt Opera have included Servilia in W.A. Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, Clorinda in La Cenerentola, Pamina in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims.
Elin Rombo has been a guest at the Opéra National de Paris where she has sung Anicia Eritea in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo. She has also appeared as The Queen of the Night in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at Staatsoper Berlin and as Agnès in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin at the Netherlands Opera and at the Royal Swedish Opera. Elin has appeared as Cunégonde in Leonard Bernstein's Candide, as well as in AscheMOND oder The Fairy Queen at Staatsoper Berlin and she has sung Adina in L’elisir d’amore at the Göteborg Opera.
Elin Rombo is this season (2018-2019) singing the role of Roxana in Szymanowski’s opera King Roger at Teatr Wielki in Warsaw which will be followed by the same role at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm in the beginning of 2019. She will also appear as Hanna Glawari in Die Lustige Witwe in Stockholm.
On the concert platform Elin Rombo has appeared under the baton of Riccardo Muti in Johannes Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) and Schubert’s Mass No 2 in G major (Saint Denis Festival/Orchestre de Paris). In the spring of 2012 she returned to Saint Denis to sing W.A. Mozart's Requiem with Orchestre de Paris and Sir Colin Davis. She has sang Arthur Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher in Salzburg, W.A. Mozart's C Minor Mass with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra as well as with the Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphonieorchester and toured with renowned Swedish choir Orphei Drängar in China, Japan and Singapore. |
