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The Icelandic soprano Marta Kristín Friðriksdóttir is currently a member of the opera ensemble at the Staatstheater Kassel and graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with distinction in 2024.

 

She will make her opera debut at the Staatstheater Kassel in the 2024/25 season as Fiordiligi in Cosí fan tutte and Micaëla in Carmen and will also appear at the Vorarlberger Landestheater as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni this season.

 

She made her German debut in 2023 at the Summer festival Schloss Rheinsberg, where she also appeared on stage as Iphigénie in Iphigénie en Aulide in summer 2024.

 

Her repertoire also includes the role of Baronessa Eugenia in La Molinara (Rheinsberg 2023) and Alma in Die Leute auf Borg by H. Neumann (world premiere in Bulgaria 2024).

 

During the course of her studies she sang the roles Ilia in Idomeneo, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Rodelinda in Rodelinda and Taumännchen in Hänsel und Gretel, among others.

 

Friðriksdóttir is the winner of numerous international singing competitions. In 2023 she was awarded second prize in the Harvets Röst Competition in Åland and was the main prizewinner in the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Competition. In 2022, she was awarded the Youth Prize in the DEBUT competition and sang in the finals of the renowned Belvedere competition in Jurmala, Latvia. In 2021 she won first prize in the Young Soloists Competition of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and in 2019 she sang in the final round of the Neue Stimmen competition.

 

Marta Friðriksdóttir has been a member of the opera ensemble at the Staatstheater Kassel since the 2024/25 season.

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