Christina Nilsson Receives Sweden’s 2025 Government Music Export Prize
By David Salazar(Photo by Emelie Kroon)
Swedish soprano Christina Nilsson has been awarded the Swedish Government’s 2025 Music Export Prize.
The Prize was presented by Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Benjamin Dousa at a ceremony in the Golden Foyer of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm on April 23, 2026.
The jury cited Nilsson’s 2025 Metropolitan Opera debut in the title role of Verdi’s “Aida” and her appearance as Eva in Wagner’s “The Mastersingers of Nuremberg” at the Bayreuth Festival as highlights of an exceptional international breakthrough.
In 2025, she was also appointed Swedish Court Singer by HM The King.
A native of Ystad, Nilsson studied at the University College of Opera in Stockholm, where she received her master’s degree in 2017. She is currently singing Liù in “Turandot” at the Royal Swedish Opera before returning to Deutsche Oper Berlin as Aida, a role she has performed in Frankfurt, New York, Prague, and Stockholm. She will also portray Elisabeth in a new production of “Tannhäuser” at the Zürich Opera House, and will return to the Royal Swedish Opera later this year in the title role of “Tosca.”
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