FULL BIRGIT NILSSSON STIPENDIUM Västra Karup 2024 Matilda Sterby
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: BIRGIT NILSSSON STIPENDIUM
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Västra Karups kyrka, Sweden
- Recorded: August 9, 2024
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Matilda Sterby
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Matti Hirvonen, PIANO
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Birgit Nilsson Museum
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Swedish soprano Matilda Sterby’s current and forthcoming engagements include Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte for Malmö Opera, Micaëla in Carmen & Ellen Orford in Britten’s Peter Grimes for Gothenburg Opera, and Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro and Magda in La Rondine for Volksoper Wien.
Recent appearances include her definitive breakthrough in Sweden as Marenka in Smetana’s The Bartered Bride for Gothenburg Opera, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for Malmö Opera, Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, and Mimi in Puccini’s La Boheme for Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Amanda in Lars Johan Werle’s Tintomara for Läckö Slott Opera, La Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro for Hannover Staatsoper and Stadttheater Klagenfurt, and Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte for Gothenburg Opera.
She has also recently sung Larsson’s Förklädd Gud at Stockholm Concert House with the Royal Swedish Philharmonic Orchestra, and Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder with Orkester Filialen in Stockholm.
Matilda is the First Prize winner of the 2024 Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition, and the winner of the 2024 Birgit Nilsson Stipendium.
In 2019 Matilda Sterby made her critically acclaimed debut as La Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro at Läckö Slott. Other past engagements include Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for Dala-Floda Opera Festival, Frasquita in Carmen for Östgötamusiken and Emmy Perth in Marschner’s Der Vampyr for Läckö Slott.
In December 2022 Naxos released a CD of Matilda singing modern art songs by Swedish contemporary composer Hans Gefors, accompanied by pianist Mårten Landström.
She has appeared in concert in, amongst others, Monteverdi’s Vespers with the Eric Ericsson Chamber Choir at Stockholm Concert House, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with VÄGUS and Simon Phipps at Gothenburg Concert House, Donna Anna Don Giovanni as her examination performance at Wermland Opera, and Frasquita in Östgötamusikens concert production of Carmen.
Matilda Sterby graduated from the University College of Opera in Stockholm in 2019 under the tutelage of American baritone Robert Hyman. Matilda also attended the soloist programme at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and at the Oslo Opera Academy, as a student of prof. Barbro Marklund.
Matilda is the recipient of the 2024 Birgit Nilsson Stipendium, and has also won scholarships from the Swedish Wagner Society and the Swedish Royal Academy of Music. In 2016 Matilda won the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in De Unges Konsert /The Young’s Concert, conducted by Kristiina Poska in Grieg Concert Hall, Norway. Among the young soloists in the concert she was also awarded the Audience’s Prize.
In February 2022 Matilda was the First Prize winner of the 2022 Hjördis Schymberg Award in Sweden. The Jury’s motivation reads:
“For her beautiful lyric soprano voice, her clear musicality and her exciting stage presence, Matilda Sterby wins First Prize.”
Quoted from Svanholmartists