Swedish soprano Karolina Andersson has established herself on both Swedish and international opera stages, with a repertoire ranging from Mozart and bel canto to contemporary music. The Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte is her signature role, which she has performed at venues including the Komische Oper Berlin, Royal Swedish Opera, Göteborg Opera, Volksoper Wien, Staatstheater Kassel and Turku Music Festival, as well as on tour in China with the Komische Oper Berlin.

Most recently, in spring 2025, Karolina returned to the role of the Queen of the Night in Folkoperan and Uppsala City Theatre’s joint production of Die Zauberflöte, which was also broadcast on Swedish Television (SVT).

Karolina Andersson studied at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg and, immediately after graduating in 2007, joined the ensemble of the Komische Oper Berlin, where she remained until 2009 and has subsequently returned as a guest.

Her other roles include Gilda in Rigoletto, Violetta in La traviata, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Ninetta in Rossini’s La gazza ladra, The Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring and Elisabeth in Verdi’s Don Carlos. She has also appeared as Carlotta in The Phantom of the Opera at Cirkus in Stockholm and Göteborg Opera.

Internationally, Karolina Andersson has appeared at venues including the Opéra national de Paris, Staatsoper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Volksoper Wien, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, Staatstheater Kassel and Theater Bremen. In Sweden, her engagements have included appearances at the Royal Swedish Opera, Göteborg Opera, Malmö Opera, Folkoperan, Wermland Opera and Drottningholm Palace Theatre.

Contemporary music holds an important place in Karolina’s repertoire. She has taken part in several world premieres, including Annette in Philippe Fénelon’s Faust in Toulouse and at the Opéra national de Paris, and Ophelia in Christian Jost’s Hamlet at the Komische Oper Berlin. In 2024, she was the soprano soloist in the world premiere of Tebogo Monnakgotla’s Soeurs du Silence with the Wermland Opera Orchestra conducted by Arjan Tien.

Karolina Andersson is also a sought-after concert and oratorio soloist. Recent engagements include Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with Wermland Opera in 2024 and Lars-Erik Larsson’s Förklädd gud (The Disguised God) in Stockholm in 2026.

Karolina has received the Royal Swedish Academy of Music’s Christina Nilsson Scholarship and the Sten A Olsson Cultural Scholarship. Her discography includes the role of Signe in Wilhelm Stenhammar’s Gillet på Solhaug (The Feast at Solhaug).