Swedish soprano Karolina Bengtsson has been awarded the 2025 Birgit Nilsson Stipendium.

Bengtsson will be awarded 250,000 SEK and she will give her Stipendium recital in Birgit Nilsson’s “own” Västra Karup church on August 8, 2025.

In a statement, the soprano said, “What an honour! It is an incredible feeling to be awarded the prestigious Birgit Nilsson Stipendium. In addition to the honour, it is also recognition – a reinforcing boost to continue following my dreams. My deepest thanks.”

Bengtsson recently performed at the Oper Frankfurt and Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. She is set to make her debut at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as Camille in the new production of Charpentier’s “Louise” and at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music as Dori in Traetta’s “Iphigenia in Tauride.”

She studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Previous recipients of the award have included Susanne Resmark, Michael Weinius, Malin Byström, Christina Nilsson, and Matilda Sterby.

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