Caroline Wettergreen

Last season, Wettergreen performed the role of Ivy/McGuffie in the world premiere of Miroslav Srnka’s Voice Killer at Theater an der Wien conducted by Finnegan Downie Dear and directed by Cordula Däuper. Elsewhere, Wettergreen performed the role of Hermione in Manfred Trojahn’s Orest at The Royal Danish Opera, made her debut as Zerbinetta in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos at Opéra de Rouen Normandie, and Olympia in Offenbach’s Les contes d'Hoffmann at Staatsoper Hamburg.

Wettergreen has become a regular presence across many of the major European houses, with notable appearances at the Royal Ballet & Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Opéra national de Paris, The Norwegian Opera & Ballet and Glyndebourne Festival. At home in contemporary repertoire, Wettergreen has given performances of Ophelia in Brett Dean’s Hamlet, Princesse in Abrahamsen’s Snedronningen at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Hermione in Orest at The Royal Danish Opera, and Ariel in Adès’s The Tempest in her Wiener Staatsoper debut. Elsewhere, Wettergreen has sung Blonde in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail for the Bayerische Staatsoper, Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto for The Norwegian Opera & Ballet, and La Fée in Massenet’s Cendrillon for Opéra national de Paris.

In huge demand for her interpretation of Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Wettergreen has sung the role in eleven productions, including at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Opéra national de Paris, The Norwegian Opera & Ballet, Royal Ballet & Opera, Glyndebourne Festival and in her North American debut for Canadian Opera Company.

As a concert artist, she has since appeared with the Bayerische Staatsorchester for the world premiere of Abrahamsen’s Zwei Inger-Christensen-Lieder (cond. Kirill Petrenko), with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra for Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 (cond. Markus Stenz), with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra for Rolf Gupta’s Earth’s Song (cond. Peter Szilvay), and at the Bergen International Festival for a recital of Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Bernstein and Strauss with pianist Christian Grøvlen.

A graduate of The Norwegian Academy of Music and The Royal Danish Academy of Music Wettergreen made her debut at The Norwegian Opera & Ballet whilst still a student, appearing as Adelaide in Berg’s Lulu in a production by Stefan Herheim. In 2018, Wettergreen was the recipient of the Equinor Classical Music Award.

2025/26 season / 464 words. Not to be altered without permission.