Malin Byström
Malin Byström (born September 3, 1973 in Helsingborg ) is a Swedish opera and concert singer with a soprano voice .
Life
Youth and education
Byström was born in Helsingborg. She attended school in Härnösand , studied music for four years at the University of Gothenburg and then trained as a soprano at the Stockholm Opera School .
Career
In 2000, Malin Byström sang Fiorella in Il turco in Italia by Gioachino Rossini at the Lübeck Theater and was a member of the Nuremberg opera ensemble in the following two seasons . Here she gave the Musetta in La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini , the Gretel in Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck , the Gilda in Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi , the Annina in One Night in Venice by Johann Strauss , the Hermine in Philippe Boesman's Winter Tale and Pamina in The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
Malin Byström has been working as a freelancer since 2002 and has had engagements at the Bregenz Festival (as Musetta), at the Royal Opera House (as Amalia in Verdi's I masnadieri ), at the Nationaltheater Mannheim (as Musetta), in Montpellier (as Susanna in Sancta Susanna von Paul Hindemith ), in Los Angeles (as Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni , conducted by Kent Nagano ) and at Opera North in Leeds (in the title role of Jules Massenet's Manon and as Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte ). She sang Così fan tutte in the spring of 2006 in Lyon under the direction of William Christie .
In the 2006/2007 opera season, Byström gave Donna Anna concerts in Örebro with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Lawrence Renes as well as with René Jacobs in Baden-Baden . Another role this season had as Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar in Montpellier . Her opera debut in Sweden it was only in autumn 2007, when she Marguerite in Faust by Charles Gounod at the GöteborgsOperan sang.
Her repertoire also includes the title role in Massenets Thaïs , which she sang in the Palau de les Arts in Valencia with Plácido Domingo and for the Göteborgsoperan , as well as Amelia in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra , Romilda in Serse by Georg Friedrich Handel and the Amelia Grimaldi in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra . She also appeared as Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Beaunes Barock Music Festival and at the Grand Théâtre de Genève , as Agathe in Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber in Bregenz , as Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Festival , in Baden-Baden and at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence .
Byström has been involved since September 2013
- at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich as Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così van tutte (2013),
- at the Drottningholm Palace Theater near Stockholm as Elektra in Mozart's Idomeneo (2014),
- at the Grand-Théâtre de Genève as Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro (2013),
- at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam in the title role of the opera Salome by Richard Strauss (2017),
- in the Kungliga Operan in Stockholm as Desdemona in Verdi's Otello (2015), as Feldmarschallin in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss (2015), as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni (2015/2016), in the title role of the opera Jenůfa by Leoš Janáček ( 2017) and as Fürstin Fedora Romazoff in Fedora by Umberto Giordano (2018)
- at the Brussels Opera House La Monnaie / De Munt as Leonore in Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven (2014),
- in the Malmö Live Konserthus as Leonore (2016),
- at the Royal Opera House in London as Donna Anna (2014), as Elektra in Mozart's Idomeneo (2014), as Mathilde in Rossini's Guillaume Tell (2015), as Elena in Verdi's I vespri siciliani (2017) and as Salome (2018)
- at the San Francisco Opera in the title role of Leoš Janáček's Jenůfa (2016),
- at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris as Leonore (2014),
- at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in the title role of the opera Arabella by Richard Strauss (2014) and as Donna Anna and Donna Elvira (2017).
The New York Times praised her title role in Arabella at the Metropolitan Opera in 2014 , praised the “silvery elegance” of her voice and described Byström as “elegant in appearance and tone ... sounding full and smooth ... reminiscent of Kiri Te Kanawa ”.
Malin Byström is also active on the concert stage in classical vocal works and concert opera performances: she sang Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Elias at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Kurt Masur and with the Orchester National de France in Paris and the soprano part in Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Bonn and at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan . She sang Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt , Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under Lawrence Renes and in Stockholm with Ralf Weikert, and Mozart's Great Mass in C minor with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under Nikolaj Znajder . Other vocal works in her repertoire are Mozart's Requiem , A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms , the Carmina Burana by Carl Orff , the song cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Gustav Mahler and the Messiah by Georg Friedrich Handel . Her appearances under the direction of Eivind Gullberg Jensen have included Kullervo by Jean Sibelius (with the Orchester National de France), Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony (with the Orchester Philharmonique de Montpellier ) and Strauss's Four Last Songs (with the Orchester National Bordeaux Aquitaine ). In concert performances she gave Mathilde in Guillaume Tell by Gioachino Rossini under the direction of Antonio Pappano with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and at the BBC Proms in London.
Personal
She is married to the Swedish baritone Markus Schwartz . You live in Gothenburg and have two children.
Repertoire (selection)
Opera
| composer | Opera | role |
|---|---|---|
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Fidelio | Leonore |
| Philippe Boesmans | Winter fairy tale | Hermione |
| Werner Egk | Peer Gynt | |
| Umberto Giordano | Fedora | Princess Fedora Romazoff |
| Charles Gounod | fist | Margarethe |
| georg Friedrich Handel | Serse | Romilda |
| Paul Hindemith | Sancta Susanna | Susanna |
| Engelbert Humperdinck | Hansel and Gretel | Gretel |
| Leoš Janáček | Jenůfa | Jenůfa |
| Franz Lehár | The Merry Widow | Hanna Glawari |
| Jules Massenet | Manon | Manon |
| Jules Massenet | Thaïs | Thaïs |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | So fan tutte | Fiordiligi |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | The Magic Flute | Pamina |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Don Giovanni | Donna Anna |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Idomeneo | Elektra |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | Countess Almaviva |
| Giacomo Puccini | La bohème | Musetta |
| Gioachino Rossini | Guillaume Tell | Mathilde |
| Gioachino Rossini | Il turco in Italia | Fiorella |
| Johann Strauss | One night in Venice | Annina |
| Richard Strauss | Arabella | Arabella |
| Richard Strauss | The Rosenkavalier | The field marshal |
| Richard Strauss | Salome | Salome |
| Giuseppe Verdi | I masnadieri | Amalia |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Les Vêpres siciliennes | Hélène |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Otello | Desdemona |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Rigoletto | Gilda |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Simon Boccanegra | Amelia |
| Carl Maria von Weber | The Freischütz | Agathe |
Vocal works
| composer | plant |
|---|---|
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Missa solemnis |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 9th symphony |
| Johannes Brahms | a German Requiem |
| georg Friedrich Handel | Messiah |
| Gustav Mahler | The boy's magic horn |
| Gustav Mahler | 4th symphony |
| Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy | Elias |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Great Mass in C minor |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | requiem |
| Carl Orff | Carmina Burana |
| Jean Sibelius | Kullervo |
| Richard Strauss | Four last Songs |
Awards
- 1997: Jenny Lind scholarship
- 2008: Birgit Nilsson scholarship.
- 2010: Svenska Dagbladet Opera Prize
- 2013: Opera Prize from OPERA magazine
- 2016: Awarded the Litteris et Artibus medal
- 2018: International Opera Award
Recordings (selection)
- Gioachino Rossini, Guillaume Tell with Gerald Finley , John Osborn, Malin Byström, Marie-Nicole Lemieux and the orchestra and choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under the direction of Antonio Pappano (EMI)
Web links
- Malin Byström at braathenmanagement.com
- Malin Byström at operabase.com
- Malin Byström at discogs.com
- M alin Bystrom as Jenufa at SF Opera at sfopera.com
- Malin Byström as Salome at the Royal Opera House at telegraph.co.uk
- Malin Bystrom in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2013. In: nobelpreis.org. Accessed March 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Malin Byström soprano. In: braathenmanagement.com. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
- ^ Från mammas kör till Metropolitan. In: svd.se. Retrieved March 27, 2018 (Swedish).
- ↑ a b c d e f g Malin Byström. In: opera.se. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Malin Byström Soprano Biography. In: roh.org. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
- ^ The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2013. In: nobelpreis.org. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Beautiful role debut for Malin Byström in Amsterdam Salome. In: bachtrack.com. Retrieved March 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Artist Of The Week: Malin Byström Takes on the Complexities Of 'Salome' At The Royal Opera House. In: operawire.com. Retrieved March 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Malin Byström, soprano. In: operabase.com. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
- ^ Love, Envy and a Glass of Water. In: nytimes.com. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
- ↑ a b The Scene People Malin Byström. In: schmopera.com. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
- ↑ International Opera Awards 2018 . Retrieved April 10, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Byström, Malin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish opera and concert singer with a soprano voice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd September 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Helsingborg |