Rebecka Wallroth

With a repertoire spanning from baroque to contemporary, including opera, Lied and oratorio, young Swedish mezzo-soprano Rebecka Wallroth is attracting increasing international attention.

Rebecka began the season at the National Theatre in Prague, portraying Idamante in Calixto Bieito’s new production of Idomeneo. From the 2025/26 season, she has joined the soloist ensemble at the Staatsoper Berlin, where her roles include Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette, Der Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos, Meg Page in Falstaff, and Carlotta in Die schweigsame Frau. In the summer of 2026, Rebecka will return to the Verbier Festival as Dorabella in their star-studded cast of Così fan tutte.

During the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons, she was a member of the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s International Opera Studio, performing a wide range of roles, among them Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Mercedes in Carmen, Carlotta in Die schweigsame Frau, a Cretan Woman in Idomeneo, the Second Wood Nymph in Rusalka, Second Handmaiden of Dircé in Cherubini’s Medea, the Shepherdess and Elderly Woman in Jenůfa, and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro.

Rebecka made her debut at the Verbier Festival in 2024, performing Cherubino in a concert version of Le nozze di Figaro, conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy. In recent years, she has performed with several major orchestras: the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust (Harding); the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Boulanger’s Faust et Hélène (Harding), their traditional Twelfth Night concerts (Rooke), and Christmas concerts; the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Sørensen’s St Matthew Passion (Morlot); and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in Alma Mahler’s Seven Songs (Tjeknavorian). She has performed Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra (Steffens) and made her debut at London’s Wigmore Hall with The Mozartists (Page), performing Arias for Rauzzini.

Rebecka Wallroth studied at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (MDW), where her roles included Olga in Eugene Onegin, Idamante in Idomeneo, Unulfo in Händel’s Rodelinda, and Agnes in Die verkaufte Braut at Schlosstheater Schönbrunn. In 2023, she performed the role of Lilly in the world premiere of The Ghost Factory by Daniel Nelson at the Vadstena Academy in Sweden.