Anne Sofie von Otter new guest teacher at the opera education

Plans have already been made for three occasions when Anne Sofie von Otter will meet the opera students for workshops and teaching during the academic year 2024/2025.

“Anne Sofie von Otter is an internationally acclaimed star, and it means a lot to us to affiliate such a prominent singer with our opera programme. She has a unique breadth of repertoire knowledge and will be an invaluable asset to the students, and also to those of us who teach in the opera programmes. The students will receive instruction in much more than opera, von Otter is also one of the absolute foremost interpreters of romances and lieder. We are all looking forward to the collaboration with enormous joy and excitement”, says Monica Danielson, programme manager for the opera education at the Academy of Music and Drama.

Anne Sofie von Otter is one of Sweden's most prominent opera singers and has had an outstanding career. She has collaborated with legendary conductors and artists, and has portrayed many significant roles. Her catalogue includes recordings in various genres and has, among other things, resulted in three Grammy awards.

The artist in residence programme consists of collaborations between the Academy of Music and Drama and three significant artists during the period 2024–2026, of which Anne Sofie von Otter is one. In addition to the opera students, students in the university's music educations also get to meet world-leading artists in workshops, master classes, lectures and artistic projects. The names of the other two artists will be announced shortly.

“The artist in residence programme contributes excellence to the students' artistic development and the participating artists can act as role models. We are happy that the students will be inspired by a world-class opera singer and we look forward to following the project develop”, comments Madeleine Olsson Eriksson, chairman of the Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture.

The first Artist in residence programme was implemented in the years 2018–2023 with financial support from Sten A Olsson's Foundation for Research and Culture, and consisted of collaborations with the musicians Isabelle van Keulen and Ross Daly and the actor David Dencik.