Anne Sofie von Otter (Opera)

Biography

Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter earned an international reputation as an outstanding Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) with performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opéra National de Paris and the Wiener Staatsoper. She also performed the role as part of a series of engagements with James Levine and The Metropolitan Opera, and in Japan under the late Carlos Kleiber (available on DVD). Other seminal opera recordings include Le nozze di Figaro under Levine, Orfeo ed Euridice under John Eliot Gardiner, Handel’s Ariodante and Hercules under Marc Minkowski and Ariadne auf Naxos under Giuseppe Sinopoli.

She has appeared with all the major opera houses including Oper Frankfurt, The Metropolitan Opera, De Nederlandse Opera and Opéra National de Paris. She appeared in Giulio Cesare at the 2012 Salzburg Festival with an all-star cast including Cecilia Bartoli and Andreas Scholl.

A busy concert schedule takes Anne Sofie von Otter to all corners of the globe performing with major orchestras including the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. She returned to the School and performed at Milton Court in 2013 as part of the prestigious Alumni Recital Series.