Ingrid Tobiasson

Ingrid Margareta Tobiasson (born February 2, 1951, in Stockholm) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano opera singer. Her principal roles in an extremely versatile career include the title role in Bizet's Carmen and Elisabetta in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda.

Career Tobiasson attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School (Swedish: Adolf Fredriks Musikklasser), a school in Stockholm known for its song and choral curriculum. She received the Jussi Björling stipend in 2001 and was appointed Hovsångerska by Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in 2000.

Tobiasson was employed at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1988, where she has sung numerous roles, including Carmen, a critically acclaimed Elisabetta in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda with guest appearances at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Omega in The Bacchae by Börtz, Gatekeeper in A Dream Play by Lidholm, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, Ortrud in Lohengrin, Amneris in Aida, Kundry in Parsifal, Azucena in Il trovatore, Mistress Quickly in Falstaff, Klytemnestra in Elektra, Eboli in Don Carlos, and the Countess in The Queen of Spades.

The operatic repertoire also includes roles such as Brigitta in Die tote Stadt, the Hostess in Boris Godunov, Adalgisa in Norma and Fricka in Das Rheingold. In January 1998, she sang Adalgisa at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Tobiasson has appeared at Malmö Opera and Music Theatre as Amneris in a series of performances of Aida that was also performed in France during the summer of 2001. She has sung Klytemnestra at the Theatre de la Monnaie, the Oper Frankfurt and at the Opéra de Rouen. She is a frequent guest with the leading orchestras in Scandinavia and Finland, and she sings alto and mezzo-soprano parts ranging from Händel's Messiah to Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand and contemporary music.

Discography Wagner, Wesendonck Lieder; Mahler: Kindertotenlieder; Weinberger: Chestnut Tree, Sixten Ehrling, dir., Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra, 2001, Caprice : CAP 21661. The most beloved opera choruses, 1996, Caprice : CAP 21520 Aida (1987) Backanterna (1993)