The young Swedish soprano Erika Roos started her musical studies at the Academy of Music in Stockholm and she continued her studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Opera with Susanna Eken. She graduated in the summer of 2007.

During her studies she performed roles such as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Apollonia in Haydn’s La Canterina. She has also sung parts of roles such as Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Violetta in La Traviata and Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier.

Erika Roos has quickly gained reputation as a concert singer and she has worked with several of Scandinavia’s most prominent orchestras. Her repertoire include Mozart’s Requiem, Vesperae solennes de confessore, and Exultate Jubilate, Haydn’s Theresienmesse, Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri, Brahms’ Requiem, Gounod’s Mors et vita and Rossini’s Petit Messe Solenelle.

Engagements in the season 2007/08 included Die Königin in Paul Dessau’s Die Verurteilung des Lukullus as well as Le feu, La princesse and Le rossignol in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges at the Komische Oper Berlin.

In the autumn of 2008 Erika Roos joined the soloist ensemble at the Komische Oper Berlin. Her roles include Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Agathe in Der Freischütz, Regan in Aribert Reimann’s Lear and 1:st Lady in Die Zauberflöte.

Recent guest appearances have included Agathe in Der Freischütz at Theater Dortmund as well as at Theater Osnabrück.

Concert engagements in the season 2009/10 included Marschallin in excerpts from Der Rosenkavalier with Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and Rossini’s Petit Messe Solenelle with the conductor Andrew Wilder.

Her current and upcoming assignments at the Komische Oper Berlin include Elettra in Idomeneo, Micaëla in Carmen, Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites and Tao-Jin in Auber’s Le cheval de Bronze, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann.

Other forthcoming highlights include concerts of Mahler’s Symphony No.8 with the conductor Jukka Pekka Saraste and Verdi’s Requiem in Kristiansund and Bergen.

June 2011