Solveig Kringlebotn

Solveig Kringlebotn has performed at the most prestigious operahouses in the world, like Metropolitan in New York, La Scala in Milano, Covent Garden in London, Bolshoi in Moscow, in Berlin, Munich, Rome and many more. In Paris alone she has sung 12 leading roles.

Her breakthrough came as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte with Christoph von Dohnanyi at the Salzburg Festival. Two years later she sang the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro with Nicklaus Harnoncourt and Luc Bondy. Kringlebotn has sung in 13 different opera productions of Le nozze di Figaro around the world.

Through a long international career she has worked with her generation’s best opera singers, conductors and directors.

In Norway, Kringlebotn is also known to a wider audience through TV in entertainment programs like Stjernekamp.

Today she is a professor in vocal art and teaches at the Opera Academy in Oslo and Barratt Due Musikkinstitutt.

Kringlebotn is knighted to Ridder of 1. class by King Harald, she has received The Norwegian Arts Council's Award of Honour, Critics' Award for Performing Arts, Anders Jahre's Prize for the Arts, The Sibelius Prize, and a Norwegian Grammy.

Updated December 2025