Biography

Karolina Bengtsson is a Swedish soprano in the ensemble of Oper Frankfurt. She grew up in Huseby in Småland and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg with Barbara Bonney.

She joined the Oper Frankfurt Opera Studio in 2021/22 and has been a member of the soloist ensemble since 2023/24. At Frankfurt she has sung Pamina, Fiordiligi, Sophie in Werther and Belisa in Fortner’s Don Perlimplín. Away from Frankfurt she has appeared at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as Camille in Louise, at the Bayerische Staatsoper and at the Innsbrucker Festwochen.

In 2020 she won first prize at the Debut International Singing Competition in Weikersheim. In 2025 she received the Birgit Nilsson Stipendium.