In autumn 2023, the young mezzo-soprano Rebecka Wallroth made her debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra where she sang Alma Mahler’s Seven Songs. Rebecka has also made her debut at Wigmore Hall together with the Mozartists orchestra as a soloist at their season opening concert. The 2023/24 season also includes a debut with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra at DR Koncerthuset.
In the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons, Rebecka Wallroth is affiliated with the International Opera Studio of Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, where in her first year she sings the roles of Cretan woman in Idomeneo, Second Handmaiden of Dircé in Cherubini’s Medea, Auntie in Jenůfa and Kate Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly.
In the summer of 2023, Rebecka appeared in the role of Lilly in the world premiere of the opera Andefabriken by Daniel Nelson at the Vadstena Academy’s summer production at Vadstena Castle and she also participated as a soloist in Norrköping Symphony Orchestra’s summer concert. Rebecka was also a guest on SVT’s Allsång på Skansen programme. The year before, Rebecka participated in the Confidencen Opera and Music Festival Academy, she was a soloist with the Danasinfonietta under the direction of Cecilia Rydinger-Ahlin and she performed in Romanskonserter i Skaraborg. Rebecka was also a soloist at the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s Christmas concerts in the Berwald Hall in Stockholm.
Rebecka Wallroth studied at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (MDW) where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in the spring of 2023. During her studies, she participated in several opera productions where the 2022/23 season included the roles of Olga in Eugene Onegin and Idamante in Idomeneo and the season before, Unulfo in Handel’s Rodelinda and Agnes in The Bride Purchase, all at Schlosstheater, Schönbrunn in Vienna.
Rebecka’s repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music, including opera, Lied and oratorios. Rebecka participated in the 2023 Queen Sonja International Singing Competition where she was rewarded with a Finalist Prize. In 2022, Rebecka Wallroth was selected as the winner of the Gesangwettbewerb Feruccio Tagliavini in Austria, where she was also awarded the Karl Böhm Prize for the best Mozart interpretation. In the same year, she was selected as the winner of the Karl Staud Musikpreis and as the recipient of the second prize in the Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition.
Rebecka has received a number of scholarships from the Royal Academy of Music, the Sandrew Foundation and the Anny Felbermayer Fund, among others, and she was named the 2022 Joel Berglund Scholarship winner by the Royal Theatre Soloists at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm.
