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Julia Sporsén

Soprano

Julia Sporsén was awarded the Stenastiftelsen Cultural Prize in 2025 and Svenska Dagbladet’s Opera Prize in 2023 for her portrayal of Norma at Folkoperan. At Folkoperan, in addition to the title role in Norma, she has also sung Violetta in La traviata, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, and Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle.

At GöteborgsOperan she has appeared as Desdemona in Otello, Iolanta in Iolanta, Elsa-Lill in Herr Arnes penningar, and Kumudha in A Flowering Tree. She has also performed Richard Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder with us.

In the 2024 season, she sang the role of Paulina Salas in Death and the Maiden at Malmö Opera, and in 2025 she returned to the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm as the Foreign Princess in Rusalka.

In autumn 2025, she gave a recital together with pianist Magnus Svensson in Grünewaldsalen at Konserthuset Stockholm. That same autumn, she performed Wesendoncklieder with the Vaasa City Orchestra. In January 2026, she appeared in the Epiphany Concert with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, a performance broadcast on SVT.