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Malin Christensson (2009-2011)

Malin Christensson - soprano

Biography

Born in Sweden, soprano Malin Christensson studied at the Royal College of Music and at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School.

In opera, her recent engagements have included Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and in Santiago di Chile; Flower Maiden (Parsifal) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring) and Dew Fairy (Hänsel und Gretel) at the Glyndebourne Festival; Drusilla (L'incoronazione di Poppea) at the Drottningholms Slottsteater; Sophie (Werther) in Baden-Baden and Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) at the Vienna Festival.

Her future engagements include Papagena at the Théâtre du Châtelet and in Montpellier and First Niece (Peter Grimes) at La Scala, Milan.

In concert, she has appeared in London, Paris, New York, Vienna, Cologne, Stockholm and at the Lucerne and Daytona Festivals with the London Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Swedish Radio Orchestra and Harding; the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Jacobs and Leonhardt; Klangforum Wien and the Gävle Symfoni Orkester with Ticciati; the Royal Scottish National Orchestra with Denève; the Northern Sinfonia with Labadie and the Orchestre de l'opéra national de Lyon with de Billy.

Her forthcoming engagements include appearances with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

In recital she has appeared with Roger Vignoles at London's Wigmore Hall the Innsbruck Festival, the Bath Mozart Festival and in Spain. She has also appeared at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg and at the Wigmore Hall with Simon Lepper and she has performed Wolf's 'Italienisches Liederbuch' at the Oxford Lieder Festival with Malcolm Martineau and in Santiago de Compostela with Roger Vignoles.

She has recently recorded Sophie (Werther) with the Orchestre de l'opéra national de Lyon and Bertrand de Billy alongside the Werther of Rolano Villazón and the Charlotte of Elena Garanca, shortly to be released by Deutsche Grammophon. Her film credits include the role of Jenny Lind in Hans Christian Andersen's life story, 'Once upon a Time' for Endemol.

She studies with Lillian Watson.

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