Maria Bengtsson

Maria Bengtsson is a Swedish soprano, born in Trelleborg in 1975. She studied voice at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg and joined the Vienna Volksoper in 2000. In 2002 Kirill Petrenko engaged her for the Komische Oper Berlin, where she stayed until 2007. Since then her freelance career has taken her to the Paris Opéra, the Royal Opera House, both Berlin state houses, the Bavarian State Opera, La Scala, the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence festivals. She is especially associated with Mozart and Richard Strauss.