In 2022 the Swedish soprano makes her house debuts at the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre as SALOME and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as ELS in “Die Schatzgräber”  in a Christof Loy production.

 

This season she sings Bruckner’s “Te Deum” with Zubin Mehta at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino  and SIEGLINDE in concert performances at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.  As EVA in “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” she makes her debut at the Opera House Leipzig.  

 

Besides, she is ELISABETH in „Tannhäuser,“ SENTA in „Der Fliegende Holländer“ , SIEGLINDE in „Die Walküre“ at the Wagner Festival Days of the Leipzig Opera  and SIEGLINDE in “Walküre” at the  Rheinoper Düsseldorf-Duisburg.

 

Lately, she succeeded as SIEGLINDE at the Teatro Real Madrid, the Royal Opera Stockholm, the GoteborgsOperan, the Norske Opera Oslo and the  Lyric Opera Chicago.

In the Yearbook 2020 of the magazine Opernwelt, she was selected best singer for her interpretation of SIEGLINDE at the GoteborgsOperan.

 

As SALOME she impressed at the Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, the Leipzig Opera and the Teatro Comunale in Bologna.

 

Further engagements brought her to the Semperoper Dresden, the Stuttgart State Opera, the Michigan Opera Detroit, the National Operas of  Helsinki and Riga, the Opéra de Lille, the Flemish Opera Antwerp, the Teatro de Bellas Artes México, the Cape Town Opera, and many festivals including the Bayreuth Festival, the Budapest Wagner Days,  the Hong Kong Arts Festival , the Festival Opera Open at the Plovdiv Antique Amphitheatre (Capital of Culture 2019), the Baltic Sea Festival, the Wiesbaden May Festival or the Ravello Festival in Italy.

 

Elisabet Strid’s repertoire also includes the roles of BRÜNNHILDE (in Siegfried), FREIA and GUTRUNE,  RUSALKA, LISA in “Pique Dame”, GIORGETTA in “Il Tabarro” and ELLEN ORFORD in “Peter Grimes”

 

Elisabet studied singing at the Stockholm University. While still studying, she made her debut at the Vadstena Academy as ‚Brygitta’, in Carl Unander Scharin’s opera, which he had composed in 2003. First engagements brought her to the Royal Opera Stockholm and the Malmö Opera.

 

Elisabet Strid is also an internationally sought-after concert soloist. Her many performances include Francis Poulenc „‚Gloria“ , the 9th Symphony by Beethoven, Wagner’s  Wesendonck-Lieder and ISOLDE’s final scene, SALOME’s  final Scene with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Stockholm Symphony Orchestra, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Orchestra, , the Ofunam Symphony Orchestra in Mexico City, the Miscolc Symphony Orchestra, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra… just to name a few. 

 

Elisabet Strid works with renowned conductors and stage directors such as Andris Nelsons, Kirill Petrenko, Adám Fischer, Esa Pekka-Salonen, Cornelius Meister, Axel Kober, Dan Ettinger, Ivan Anguélov, Lorin Maazel, Ulf Schirmer, Kent Nagano, Frank Castorf, Stefan Herheim, Barbe & Doucet, Aron Stiehl, David Pountney, Dietrich Hilsdorf, Calixto Bieito.

 

Her debuts as EVA in “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg”at the Budapest Wagner Days and as VENUS/ELISABETH at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, just like her return to the Lyric Opera Chicago as SIEGLINDE  and her portrayal of Sieglinde in Tokyo were cancelled because of the COVID 19 pandemic.  Also her engagements as CHRYSOTHEMIS in “Elektra” at the Teatro Massimo Palermo and at the Tel Aviv Opera and MINNIE in “La Fanciulla del West” at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna didn’t take place due to the pandemic. 

 

Future engagements take her as CHRYSOTHEMIS in “Elektra” to the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome under the musical direction of Maestro Antonio Pappano and to the Royal Opera Copenhague.  She also sings SALOME at the Stockholm Royal Opera and EMILIA MARTY in “Vec Makropulos” at the London Royal Opera.

 

In 2017 her first CD “Leuchtende Liebe” (Beethoven & Wagner) was released at the Oehms Classic label.