Suvi Väyrynen

Finnish soprano Suvi Väyrynen’s opera and concert work brings together coloratura repertoire, oratorio and contemporary Finnish music. Her engagements include a return to Finnish National Opera as Amor in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice in January and February 2027. Mozart’s Queen of the Night is a recurring role, with performances at Estonian National Opera, Tampere Opera and the Åland Opera Festival, as well as Immling and Staatstheater Darmstadt in 2026.

In 2025, Ms. Väyrynen sang Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel at Finnish National Opera, where she had previously appeared as Despina in Così fan tutte in 2018 and Adele in Die Fledermaus in 2016/17. Her work at Tampere Opera includes Onni in the 2018 world premiere of Olli Kortekangas’s Veljeni vartija, alongside Musetta in La bohème and Frasquita in Carmen. Other engagements have brought her to Savonlinna as Masha and Prilepa in The Queen of Spades, to Joensuu Opera as Adina in L’elisir d’amore and to Vaasa Baroque in the title role of Handel’s Alcina. At Eurajoki Bel Canto, she has performed Wagner repertoire in concert.

Her orchestral work includes Vaughan Williams’s Sinfonia antartica with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Tarmo Peltokoski in 2024. She has also sung Bach’s Mass in B minor with Jyväskylä Sinfonia and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with Sinfonia Lahti. Contemporary music has taken her to Wien Modern with REIHE Zykan + under Michael Mautner. She has performed requiems by Kokkonen, Kostiainen and Tammelin, recording the first two for Toccata Classics and Alba Records.

Ms. Väyrynen also takes part in multimedia and interdisciplinary projects, including an appearance in a BBC Four documentary on Vienna. Her distinctions include winning the women’s division of the Lappeenranta Singing Competition in 2016. In 2015, she received a prize at Vienna’s Fidelio competition with Duo Sung and reached the final of the International Hilde Zadek Singing Competition, following first prize at Kangasniemi in 2013.

Ms. Väyrynen completed her master’s degree in solo singing with Uta Schwabe at Vienna’s Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität in 2020, also studying Lied interpretation with Birgid Steinberger and Carolyn Hague. She had previously graduated with distinction in music pedagogy from Tampere University of Applied Sciences in 2013, studying with Satu Sippola. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in vocology from the University of Tampere.