Åsa Jäger

The Swedish soprano Åsa Jäger graduated with honors from the University College of Opera in Stockholm in 2015. She received the Bayreuth Scholarship from the Swedish Wagner Society in the same year and, in 2022, from the Danish Wagner Society. In 2019, she made her stage debut at the Norrlandsoperan as the Mother in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. Jäger is considered one of the great rising hopes in the dramatic Wagnerian repertoire: in 2022, she sang her first Brünnhilde in Die Walküre and, in 2023, in Siegfried at the Coburg Theater. In 2024, she played Senta in The Flying Dutchman in Gothenburg, earning the Opera Award from Tidskriften Opera. In the 2025-26 season, Jäger — who also focuses on contemporary music — will make her role debut as Wagner’s Isolde; she is currently also preparing Puccini’s Turandot. In May 2025, she debuted with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under Pablo Heras-Casado in Brünnhilde’s final scene from Götterdämmerung.

August 2025