Sofie Asplund

In 2018/2019 soprano Sofie sang her first Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Göteborg Opera. Spring 2023 will include another Strauss opera; Die schweigsame Frau at the Göteborg Opera with Sofie as Aminta, which will be followed by Musetta in La bohème on the same stage.

The previous season Sofie sung the role of The Foster Sister in the opera Herr Arnes Penningar (Sir Arne’s Treasure) by Gösta Nystroem at the Göteborg Opera. The season also included two world premieres both at Alandica in Åland; the title role in Lisbeta, a role especially written for Sofie Asplund by Karólina Eiriksdóttirs, and the opera Djävulsdansen i Skarpans where she sung the role of Agatha Sipelius. Sofie also released her first solo album with Britten's Les illuminations och Debussy's Ariettes Oubliées (Naxos), nominated for the Swedish Grammis award.

In the season of 2020/2021, Sofie made her role debut as Musetta in the Göteborg Opera’s live streamed production of La bohème. She also appeared as Waldvogel in Siegfried on the same stage. The season before, Sofie sang Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro in Gothenburg and she appeared in guest performances as Gilda at the Norwegian National Opera’s production of Rigoletto. That same season also included several major concerts, amongst them Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra led by Christoph Eschenbach, and solo appearances at the Nobel prize award ceremony.

Sofie was a guest at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm as Constance in Dialogues des carmélites and Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and she participated in Barbara Hannigan’s Equilibrium young artists’ project where she sang Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress. The project included semi-staged performances in Munich with the Münchner Philharmoniker, as well as on a European tour with the Ludwig Orchestra visiting Paris, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Dresden and Dortmund, all performances led by Barbara Hannigan.

Sofie has previously appeared as Susanna and Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Olga Sukarev in Giordano’s Fedora and Oscar in Un ballo in Maschera at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. She has sung Erste Magd in Daphne at Staatsoper Hamburg and at the Opera in Basel. At the Malmö Opera, Sofie Asplund has sung Oscar, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier and Pousette in Manon. She has appeared as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Vixen in The cunning little vixen at the Läckö castle and as Carolina in Il matrimonio segreto at the Drottningholm Court Theatre. At the Vadstena Academy, Sofie has sung Lydia in Stolthet och fördom (Pride and Prejudice), among others.

Sofie Asplund has also appeared in musical theatre roles including Maria in West Side Story and Christine in The Phantom of the Opera, which she has performed at the Finland National Opera and at the Göteborg Opera.

In 2018 Sofie Asplund was the first winner of the new singing competition the Schymberg Award. In 2022, she was awarded the First Class Medal of the Order of the White Rose of Finland by the President of Finland.