Caroline Wettergreen
Caroline Wettergreen is one of the most exciting coloratura sopranos of her generation. In 2016 she made her international debut at the Komische Oper Berlin. Since then she has performed at the Paris Opéra, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, the Norwegian National Opera and the Canadian Opera Company. In 2017 she made her debut at the Bavarian State Opera under Kirill Petrenko in the world premiere of Hans Abrahamsen’s Two Inger Christensen Songs; she has since returned regularly to perform with the company.
In the 2023/24 season she appeared at the Bavarian State Opera in her signature role of the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), sang La Fée in Massenet’s Cendrillon at the Paris Opéra and returned to the Vienna State Opera as Ariel in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest. In 2022/23 she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, returned to the Bavarian State Opera as Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Ophelia in Brett Dean’s Hamlet and sang Queen of the Night at the Berlin State Opera and the Paris Opéra.
Her repertory also includes Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Princess in Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen, Nightingale in Braunfels’s Die Vögel, Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), Gilda (Rigoletto) the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor and Zerlina (Don Giovanni). She has also sung Johanna in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd at the Bergen National Opera.
Caroline Wettergreen has worked with conductors including Benjamin Bayl, Manlio Benzi, Antonino Fogliani, Julia Jones, Eun Sun Kim, Christian Kluxen, Christopher Moulds, Henrik Nánási, Kirill Petrenko, Dalia Stasevska, Peter Szilvay and Thomas Søndergård.
Caroline Wettergreen studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. During the first year of her studies she made her professional debut as 15-Year-Old Girl in Berg’s Lulu at the Norwegian National Opera, in a production directed by Stefan Herheim.