The Swedish mezzo-soprano Kristina Hammarström appears regularly at leading opera houses and prestigious festivals. These include La Scala, Milan, the Vienna State Opera, the Theater an der Wien, the Paris Opéra, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp, the Berlin State Opera, the Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg, the ABAO in Bilbao, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, the Norwegian Opera in Oslo, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and the Drottningholm Palace Theatre Festival.
Her repertory includes an impressive number of roles in Baroque operas, along with Charlotte (Werther), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Arsace (Semiramide), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust), Cecilio (Lucio Silla), Ascanio (Ascanio in Alba), Idamante (Idomeneo) and many other roles.
Kristina Hammarström is also in demand as a concert singer, and performs at concert halls and festivals throughout Europe and Asia. Her repertory includes Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, Rückert Lieder, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Das Lied von der Erde, Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody, Elgar’s Sea Pictures, Bernstein’s First Symphony (Jeremiah), Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and Ninth Symphony, Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri, and numerous masses and oratorios.
She works regularly with conductors including Herbert Blomstedt, Gianluca Capuano, William Christie, Alessandro De Marchi, Adam Fischer, Alan Gilbert, Emmanuelle Haïm, Philippe Herreweghe, Manfred Honeck, René Jacobs, Fabio Luisi, Andrea Marcon, Marc Minkowski, John Nelson, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, George Petrou, Christophe Rousset and Jean-Christophe Spinosi.
In addition to a solo album of Vivaldi arias, Kristina Hammarström’s discography includes Handel’s Giulio Cesare (title role), Alessandro Severo (Giulia), Orlando (Medoro), Catone (Arbace) and Messiah, Mozart’s Idomeneo (Idamante), Mitridate (Farnace), Lucio Silla (Cecilio) and Requiem, and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. She has appeared on DVD as Bradamante (Alcina), Daniel (Belshazzar), Bradamante in Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso and Medea in Cavalli’s Giasone.
