Bio – SIGRID VETLESETER BØE

Biography

Sigrid Vetleseter Bøe

Sigrid’s 22/23 season started with her role debut as Donna Elvira in W. A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Opera Warberg in Sweden. Directly afterwards, she returned to the Royal Swedish Opera to sing her third production as Erste Dame in W. A. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte.

In December, Sigrid made her role debut as Musetta in G. Puccini’s La bohème at the Royal Swedish Opera, before returning to Kristiansund Opera to repeat the role as Sylva Varescu in Die Csárdásfürstin by E. Kálmán.
Sigrid started her 2021/2022 season singing her first Pamina in W. A. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Opera di Setra in July 2021, before she returned to Malmö Opera to sing the role as Helena in B. Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in August. The production opened in October 2021.

Sigrid’s 2020/2021 season was mostly cancelled due to Covid-19, but she was able to do her debut as Sylva Varescu in E. Kálmán’s Die Csárdásfürstin as planned in March 2021. Because of the limited amount of audience, the production returned in 2023 at Operaen i Kristiansund.

Sigrid Bøe started the 2019/20 season with participating in Queen Sonja International Music Competition in Oslo as one of three Norwegian participants. After the competition, Sigrid returned to Norway to sing the newly written opera Krenket by composer Trygve Brøske and librettist Marianne Meløy.

Sigrid was also a soloist at the celebration of Kristiansund Symphony Orchestra’s 100 year anniversary in September. In November, Sigrid returned to Confidencen Theatre in Stockholm for another production of Gli Elisi, in which she sang the leading role of Queen Cristina.

She also went on tour with Alpaca Ensemble in Norway, performing D. Shostakovich’s Seven Romances. In the spring of 2020, Sigrid sang the role of Helena in B. Brittens A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Malmö Opera.

During the 2018/19 season, Sigrid sang the roles of Solveig in E. Grieg’s Peer Gynt, sang the lead role in the newly written piece Stjernestøv by L. R. Halle and was a finalist in the Schymberg Award singing competition with Nordiska Kammarorkestern in Sundsvall. Sigrid was also singing Micaëla in a touring production of Carmen in Norway in 2018. She also did the role of Queen Cristina in Gli Elisi with Drottningholms Barockensemble at Confidencen Theatre in Stockholm and Mimí in La bohème at Wermland Opera during the summer of 2018.

Sigrid sang the role of Erste Dame in W. A. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm for two seasons – 2016/17 and 2017/18. In 2016, Sigrid sang the role of Fingallo at the Vadstena Academy’s performance of Comala, and did her first Messa da Requiem by G. Verdi.

Sigrid has earlier in her career won a number of prizes in singing competitions, among others the 2nd Prize in Havets Röst in Mariehamn and 2nd Prize in the G. Verdi competition Premio Verdi in Oslo. Apart from this, Sigrid has also received grants and awards from Anders Sveaas’ Almennyttige Fond, Skipsreder Tom Wilhelmsen Foundation, Shell Musical Theatre Award, Edvard Bræin prize, Anders Wall Foundation, Royal Musical Academy in Sweden and Märta Christina and Magnus Vahlquist Foundation.

During her education at Stockholm College of Opera, Sigrid sang the roles of Nedda in Pagliacci, Mimí in La bohème, Violetta in La traviata, Clorinda in La cenerentola and Desdemona in Otello.

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