Maja Frydén - Biography

Maja Frydén graduated from Stockholm University College of Opera in 2015 and has with her young, dramatic soprano already participated in three productions at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.

First as Donna Elvira in ”Min bror är Don Juan” (My Brother is Don Juan), then as The Doctor in ”Min mamma är en Drake” (My Mother is a dragon) and now as the Soprano soloist in Myriads of Worlds, touring both Norway and Hong Kong International Arts Festival and with guest performances at The Malmö Opera, in the summer and fall of 2019.

Swedish Wagner Society has chosen Maja Frydén as 2020 Bayreuth Laureate.

In july 2019 Maja made her Wagner debut as Freia in Das Rheingold in Vattnäs concert barn wich she got raving reviews for.

”..the biggest vocal discovery, for non-swedes who didn’t know her theatre work already, was Larsson's pupil Maja Frydén. Tall and striking she could almost be another Lise Davidsen in the making, though more likely to specialise in Strauss than in Wagner (she would make a wonderful Arabella). Freia sings just about enough to make her mark, but it was the concert that confirmed her major talent: Frydén opened it, appropriately, with Elisabeth’s greeting from Tannhäuser and later melted the entire audience with Rusalkas song to the moon. ... Her dramatisation in Sibelius’s great ballad-song Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte” (The girl returned from meeting her lover) did not pale alongside the classic Flagstad version.” -David Nice, The Artsdesk