Cornelia Beskow is at the Royal Swedish Opera in the title role of Jenůfa, Janácek's opera in 2024. In recent years, she has sung Ellen Orford in Britten's Peter Grimes in Warsaw, Katerina in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk, Jenůfa at the Norwegian Opera & Ballet and Senta in the outdoor performance of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer at Opera Østfold, Fredriksten.
Cornelia Beskow is educated at the Opera Academy, Copenhagen (soloist 2012) and the University College of Opera (master 2015). She has already had success with roles at the Royal Swedish Opera, such as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Chrysothemis in Elektra and Tatjana in Jevgenij Onegin, as well as in Dead Man Walking, Der Rosenkavalier and The Cunning Little Vixen at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. She has also sung Senta in Der fliegende holländer at Malmö Opera.
Her breakthrough in Stockholm was as Sieglinde in Die Walküre (2017), performing alongside Nina Stemme’s Brünnhilde. In 2018 Cornelia performed in the Royal Swedish Opera anniversary tribute concert for Birgit Nilsson’s 100th birthday (also broadcast via OperaVision). In 2020 Cornelia Beskow made her international debut as Elsa in Lohengrin at Wiener Staatsoper.
In 2017 she was awarded all four prizes in Lauritz Melchior International Singing Competition. Cornelia Beskow was awarded the Royal Swedish Opera’s Anders Wall Scholarship for her debut as Sieglinde in Die Walküre (2017). She has also received the Swedish Wagner Society’s Bayreuth Scholarship (2013), Barbro Salén Scholarship (2015), Danish Reumert Talent Prize (2015) and several scholarships from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
