With just a few days to go until the Birgit Nilsson Prize 2025 is revealed on May 21, this year’s Stipendium has been announced. Swedish Soprano Karolina Bengtsson will receive the scholarship worth 250.000 SEK (ca. 25.000 US dollars) when she performs in Västra Karup church on August 8.
Created by Birgit Nilsson in 1969, in memory of her first teacher Ragnar Blennow, the Stipendium was first presented in 1973. Karolina becomes the 48th young Swedish singer to receive the annual award this summer,
Since the start of the 2023/24 season Karolina Bengtsson has been engaged in the soloist ensemble at Oper
Karolina Bengtsson studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where her teachers were Barbara Bonney and Wolfgang Holzmair in lieder interpretation and Gaiva Bandzinaite in role preparation. She sang her first Pamina at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 2021. She has previously received First Prize – the Golden Victoria – at the DEBUT International Singing Competition 2020 and Best Young Artist Award at the international Meistersinger von Nürnberg competition 2022.
