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Kristina Hammarström has lately become one of Sweden’s leading singers with a flourishing international career. Her impeccable musicianship, due to an earlier career as a violinist, and striking stage persona has earned her accolades wherever she has appeared. She has been engaged by the Bastille Opera in Paris, Wiener Kammeroper, as well as the opera houses in Lausanne, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Strasbourg and Lübeck.
n the spring of 2004 Kristina Hammarström made her debut as Penelope in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria at La Monnaie in Brussels, and then on tour to Caen, Luxemburg and New York. This summer (2006-2007 season) she appeared in Cecilia and the Monkey King at The Drottningholm Court Theatre, where she also appeared as Irene in the critically acclaimed production of Tamerlano, conducted by Christophe Rousset in 2000 and 2002. During the 2003 season Kristina Hammarström appeared with René Jacobs in Luxemburg as Diana in Cavalli’s La Calisto, Nerone in Agrippina at The Chicago Opera Theater with Emmanuelle Haïm and Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier at the Gothenburg Opera. Other operatic roles in later seasons have been: Teseo in George Frideric Handel’s Arianna in Creta with Christophe Rousset, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Royal Opera in Stockholm and the title-role in W.A. Mozart’s Ascanio in Alba in Mannheim with Adam Fischer.
Kristina Hammarström has performed the alto parts in most of J.S. Bach’s and W.A. Mozart’s oratorios with conductors as Manfred Honeck, Philippe Herreweghe and John Nelson. In 2003 she appeared as Marguerite in Berlioz’ La Damnation de Faust alongside José van Dam in Düsseldorf. Recent engagements include Minerva in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria with René Jacobs at the Staatsoper in Berlin, Edward Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius in Düsseldorf, Cleofe in G.F. Handel’s La Resurrezione with Andrew Manze in Berlin, Matilde in Lotario with Kammerorchester Basel, W.A. Mozart’s Mass in C-minor with Herbert Blomstedt and the Tonhalle-Orchestra, Charlotte in Massenet’s Werther at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, Nerone in Agrippina in Frankfurt and Cornelia in G.F. Handel’s Giulio Cesare with René Jacobs in Vienna.
Kristina Hammarström participates in the recordings of Mitridate, Lucio Silla and Idomeneo with Adam Fischer and the Danish Radio Sinfonietta. |
