Mezzo-soprano Karolina Blixt was born and raised in Stockholm and has worked professionally as an opera singer since 2007, when she graduated from the Stockholm Academy of Opera with her breakthrough as Xerxes in Handel's opera. She has sung on opera stages and concert halls around Sweden, as well as in the rest of Europe and made a name for herself as an artist with a wide artistic range.
She has played roles at the Royal Swedish Opera, Drottningholm Court Theater, Gothenburg Opera, Folkoperan, Ulriksdal Court Theater, Malmö Opera, Teater Megaron (Athens), Le Grand Thèatre Aix-en-Provence, Theater Carré (Amsterdam), Beckett Theater (Dublin), Athens Festival, Wexford Opera (Ireland), Läckö Castle Theatre and BAM (New York).
Among Karolina's more prominent roles are Xerxes, Frau Peachum (The Threepenny Opera), Phèdre (Hippolyte et Aricie), Gluck's Orfeo and most recently the great success as Mrs. Lovett in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at the Royal Swedish Opera in 2023.
Karolina also performs in concerts and has also done many of her own concert productions and projects with a varied repertoire, including in collaboration with Riksteatern. She has worked in a variety of interdisciplinary performing arts productions, among others with Cirkus Cirkör, and has sung a lot of newly written repertoire.
Karolina has received scholarships from the Friends of the Drottningholm Theater, the Friends of the Folkoperan, Anders Sandrew, Kerstin Meyer, the Musical Academy and the Soloists of the Royal Theater (Josef Herou).
In addition to her musical education, Karolina also has an artistic education in painting and sculpture from Gotland's Art School, 40 credits in Behavioral Science at Lund University as well as a folk high school teacher's degree in scenic and music-dramatic design from Linköping University. She also plays alto saxophone and has a great interest in doll making. Sources of inspiration include Kurt Weill, Gustav Mahler and Barbro Lindgren.
