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The Swedish mezzo-soprano Kristina Hammarström frequently appears at opera houses such as Teatro alla Scala Milan, Staatsoper Wien, Theater and der Wien, Opéra National Paris, Théâtre des Champs Elysées Paris, Opéra national du Rhin Strasbourg, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Théâtre de La Monnaie Brussels, Netherlands Opera Amsterdam, Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, Staatsoper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Théâtre de Caen, Opéra de Nice, Opéra National de Nancy, Opéra de Lausanne, Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg, Ópera Bilbao, Chicago Opera Theatre, Royal Swedish Opera, Gothenburg Opera, Norwegian National Opera, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Innsbrucker Festwochen and Drottningholm Festival Stockholm.
Her opera roles include Charlotte in Werther, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Penelope and Minerva in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Diana in Cavalli’s La Calisto, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Marguerite in Berlioz’ La Damnation de Faust. Mozart roles include Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Cecilio in Lucio Silla, the title role in Ascanio in Alba, Idamante in Idomeneo, Farnace in Mitridate, re di Ponto, and roles by Handel include the title role and Cornelia in Giulio Cesare, Bradamante in Alcina, Irene in Tamerlano, Nerone and Ottone in Agrippina, the title role in Oreste, Teseo in Arianna in Creta, Storgé in Jephtha, Medoro in Orlando, Gandarte in Poro, Daniel in Belshazzar and Cleofe in La Resurrezione.
She regularly works with conductors such as Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Marin Alsop, Giancarlo Andretta, Giovanni Antonini, Eduardo López Banzo, Fabio Biondi, Herbert Blomstedt, Frans Brüggen, William Christie, Jesús López Cobos, Jérôme Correas, Attilio Cremonesi, Alan Curtis, Ottavio Dantone, Thomas Dausgaard, Adam Fischer, Thierry Fischer, Simon Gaudenz, Alan Gilbert, Emmanuelle Haim, Florian Helgoth, Philippe Herreweghe, Christopher Hogwood, Manfred Honeck, Carlo Ipata, René Jacobs, Ilia Korol, Nicholas Kraemer, Bernard Labadie, Fabio Luisi, Andrew Manze, Alessandro De Marchi, Andrea Marcon, Paul McCreesh, Marc Minkowski, Christopher Moulds, Martin Nagashima Toft, John Nelson, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Enrico Onofri, Erwin Ortner, Tadaaki Otaka, George Petrou, Josep Pons, Daniel Reuss, Christophe Rousset, Federico Maria Sardelli, Claude Schnitzler, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Markus Stenz, Nathalie Stutzman and Jan Willem de Vriend.
She is a much sought-after concert singer and she regularly appears in concert halls and festivals throughout Europe and Asia. Her repertoire includes Berlioz’ Les nuits d’été, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, Rückertlieder, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Das Lied von der Erde, Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, Elgar’s Sea pictures, Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 Jeremiah, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, as well as a large number of masses and oratorios.
Recent engagements have included Bradamante in Alcina at Grand Théâtre de Genève, Arsace in Rossini’s Semiramide at Opéra de Nice, Ismene in Gluck’s Alceste at the Ruhrtriennale and at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, Arbace in Handel’s Catone in Pisa and at the Handel Festival in Halle, Medoro in Handel’s Orlando at Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse. Concert engagements have included Sabina in Veracini’s Adriano in Siria in Madrid and Valencia, Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri in Utrecht, Handel’s Messiah in Oviedo as well as in Stockholm, Handel’s Ah! Che troppo ineguali and Ferrandini’s Il Pianto di Maria in Nice, Aix en Provence and Sylvacane and Mozart’s Requiem in Tokyo, Hyogo, Karuizawa and Miyazaki as well as in Stockholm.
2017 included Medea in Cavalli’s Il Giasone at Grand Théâtre de Genève, Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Paris, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Gdansk and Budapest with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in New York, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Örebro with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Amsterdam with The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem in Bergen with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bach’s St John Passion in Stockholm with the Swedish Baroque Orchestra and Handel’s Messiah in Oslo with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, in Gothenburg with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and in Stockholm with ReBaroque.
Kristina Hammarström has recorded a solo CD with arias by Vivaldi with Marcello Di Lisa, Medoro in Handel’s Orlando with René Jacobs, the title role in Giulio Cesare and Giulia in Handel’s Alessandro Severo with George Petrou, Idamante in Idomeneo, Farnace in Mitridate, re di Ponto and Cecilio in Lucio Silla with Adam Fischer, Bach’s Christmas oratorio with Jan Willem de Vriend, Mozart’s Requiem with Manfred Honeck, and Handel’s Messiah with Gustaf Sjökvist. DVD releases include Bradamante in Alcina with Marc Minkowski, Bradamante in Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso with Jean-Christophe Spinosi and Daniel in Belshazzar with René Jacobs.