Malin Hartelius

Malin Hartelius, who was born in Växjö, Sweden, studied with Margarete Bence in Vienna and acquired her first stage experiences in the Vienna Staatsoper opera studio. In 1991 she was engaged by Zurich Opera, where she remained until 2012, singing the great lyric soprano roles: in particular, the Mozart repertoire. In addition, Malin Hartelius has given guest performances at many renowned stages in Europe. She appeared as Konstanze in Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio at the Bavarian and Hamburg Staatsoper companies and the Aix-en-Provence Festival, as well as in Amsterdam, and as Sophie in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier at the Berlin and Vienna Staatsoper companies. Under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, she sang the female title role in Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella, and she worked on Rameau's Les Indes galantes with William Christie at the Opéra national de Paris and in Zurich. At the Salzburg Festival, Malin Hartelius has appeared as Adele in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Dircé in Cherubini’s Médée, and Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte, among others. She has worked with such conductors as Ivor Bolton, Riccardo Chailly, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Mariss Jansons, Philippe Jordan, and Franz Welser-Möst and has performed in concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestras, the Philharmonia and London Symphony Orchestras, the Cleveland and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestras, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 2010, Malin Hartelius was honored with Sweden’s highest award for artists, the Order of Litteris et Artibus.

Lucerne Festival debut on 5 April 2009 in Haydn’s Harmoniemesse with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Mariss Jansons.