Biography Highlights
Upcoming
Return to The Royal Swedish Opera in the title part of Jenufa, debut in The Israeli Opera in the leading role of Ariadne auf Naxos, Gutrune in Götterdämmerung Den NY Opera, Wagner Wesendonck Lieder with Gotenbourg Symphony Orchestra.
Recent
Jenůfa Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and Royal Swedish Opera, Ariadne auf Naxos at Prague National Theatre, Salome with Malmö Opera, Katerina Izmailova Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Elsa Lohengrin Wiener Staatsoper, Jenůfa with Norwegian National Opera, Chrysothemis Elektra, Sieglinde Die Walküre, and Tatyana Eugene Onegin with Royal Swedish Opera, Senta Der fliegende Holländer with Malmö Opera and Opera Østfold.
Concert work
In addition to a flourishing career on the opera stage, Cornelia Beskow sings regularly in recital and concert, with repertoire ranging from Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, and Poème de l’amour et de la mer by Chausson, to songs by Strauss, Britten, Sibelius, and Nyström. She has performed as soloist with the Royal Danish Orchestra in Beethoven Symphony No. 9 and in duet with Sir Bryn Terfel in a programme of Wagner, Dvořák and Gershwin, together with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra.
Awards
Winner of Lauritz Melchior International Singing competition in 2017, were she got all 4 prizes; first prize, orchestra prize, audience prize and youth prize, Cornelia Beskow is the recipient of the Birgit Nilsson Scholarship 2022, and she was awarded the Royal Swedish Opera's Anders Wall Scholarship for her debut as Sieglinde in Die Walküre. She also was awarded the Swedish Wagner Society's Bayreuth Scholarship and Sixten Gemzeus big music scholarship in 2022.