Anne Sofie von Otter & Brooklyn Rider

The Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter is one of the most recorded artists of our time and has had an unparalleled career, maintaining a leading position in her field for over four decades. Her long-standing collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon has produced numerous acclaimed recordings, including the Grammy-winning performance of Mahler’s “Des Knaben Wunderhorn” with Claudio Abbado and the album “For the Stars” with pop legend Elvis Costello. In 2010, Naïve Classique released “Love Songs” with jazz pianist Brad Mehldau. Among her most important roles are Octavian (“Der Rosenkavalier”), which she has sung worldwide, and Leonora in the premiere of Thomas Adès’ “The Exterminating Angel” at the Salzburg Festival and the Royal Opera House in London. Recent highlights include Marcellina (“Le nozze di Figaro”) at the Bavarian State Opera Munich, Mérope (“Oedipe”) at the Opéra national de Paris, the Countess (“Pique Dame”) at La Monnaie, and Adelaide (“Arabella”) at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Composer Mikael Karlsson wrote the song cycle “So We Will Vanish” for her, as well as roles in the world premieres of the operas “Melancholia” (2023) and “Fanny and Alexander” (2024). In 2025, she performed in Philippe Manoury’s new opera “The Last Days of Mankind” in Cologne. Other engagements have taken her to the Nederlandse Opera, the Metropolitan Opera New York, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Theater an der Wien, as well as to Aix-en-Provence and Glyndebourne. Her equally successful concert career encompasses works by Berlioz, Bach, and Kurt Weill, as well as songs by Schubert, Schumann, Hugo Wolf, and Mahler.