Hedvig Haugerud SOPRANO

Hedvig Haugerud
Norway
City of residence: Oslo

Age: 30

Voice 2025

Competitors 2025

 

Following her graduation from the Norwegian Academy of Music, Hedvig Haugerud continued her studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse in Paris before joining the Royal Danish Opera Academy. She recently won rave reviews for her debut in the title role of Salome at the Opéra-Théâtre de Metz. In 2023, Hedvig performed the roles of Vierte Magd and Die Aufseherin in Strauss’ Elektra at the Norwegian National Opera and the Danish Royal Opera. Upcoming engagements include a recital of Scandinavian songs at the Bregenzer Festspiele this summer and debuts as Chrysothemis (Elektra) and Salome at the New National Theatre in Tokyo.

Additional performances include Grieg Songs, performed on tour to Spain with the Bergen Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, the role of Fourth Maid in Elektra in concert with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kirill Petrenko, and The Overseer in Elektra for the Royal Danish Opera, conducted by Thomas Søndergård.  

Principal Teachers

  • Susanna Eken
  • Elène Golgevit
  • Svein Bjørkøy

Major Competitions  

  • 1st prize, The Lauritz Melchior International Singing Competition, 2024  
  • Press prize, Mirjam Helin Singing Competition, 2024  
  • 2nd prize, Paris Opera Competition, 2023

 

PROGRAMME

FIRST ROUND: ARIA 

JAAP NICO HAMBURGER How Full of Lightness We Were
(Ariella)

HECTOR BERLIOZ Les Grecs ont disparu!
(Les Troyens)

RICHARD WAGNER Der Männer Sippe sass hier im Saal 
(Die Walküre)

 

FIRST ROUND: ART SONG 

HECTOR BERLIOZ Sur les lagunes
(Les nuits d’été)

RICHARD STRAUSS Ruhe, meine Seele!
(Vier Lieder, op. 27)

RICHARD STRAUSS Zueignung
(Acht Gedichte aus ”Letzte Blätter”, op. 10)

 

ART SONG PRIZE FINAL 

MAURICE RAVEL Le martin-pêcheur 
(Histoires naturelles)

EDVARD GRIEG Fra Monte Pincio 
(Romancer, op. 39)

EDVARD GRIEG Våren 
(Tolv Melodier il Digte af Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, op. 33)

JEAN SIBELIUS Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings møte
(Fem sånger, op. 37)

JEAN SIBELIUS Svarta rosor 
(Sex sånger, op. 36)

  

SEMIFINAL 

FELIX MENDELSSOHN Höre Israel 
(Elias)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Mi tradi quell’alma ingrata
(Don Giovanni)

RICHARD WAGNER Dich, teure Halle 
(Tannhäuser)

 

FINAL 

RICHARD STRAUSS Cäcilie 
(Vier Lieder, op. 27)

GIUSEPPE VERDI Morro ma prima in grazia 
(Un ballo in maschera)

RICHARD WAGNER Johohoe! Traft ihr das Schiff im Meere an 
(Der Fliegende Holländer) 

 



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