Sabina Bisholt

Ensemble: (Current) Freelance
Guest engagements: Malmö Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, Wermland Opera, Jyske Opera, Opera på Skäret

Swedish soprano Sabina Bisholt has established herself as a versatile lyric-dramatic soprano with performances across leading Scandinavian stages. Following her breakthrough as Marguerite in Faust at Norrlandsoperan, she has appeared at Malmö Opera, the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, Wermland Opera, Turku Swedish Theater, Opera på Skäret, and the Copenhagen Opera Festival. In the 2025/26 season, Ms. Bisholt makes her role debut as Elsa in Lohengrin at Malmö Opera and appears as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at Jyske Opera. The previous season saw her debut as Tatiana in Eugene Onegin at Wermland Opera.

Ms. Bisholt graduated in 2016 from the University College of Opera in Stockholm, where she received the Christina Nilsson Scholarship. She made her professional debut the following year as Marguerite in Faust at Norrlandsoperan. Subsequent engagements include Mimì in La Bohème and Micaëla in Carmen at the Royal Swedish Opera (2018/19 and 2019/20), Micaëla in Peter Brook’s Carmen at Wermland Opera (2019), and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at Opera på Skäret (2019). She was also scheduled to appear as Micaëla in Carmen at Staatsoper Hamburg in 2020, a production later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, Ms. Bisholt sang Nedda in Pagliacci at Turku Swedish Theater and made her debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at Opera Warberg.

On the concert stage, Ms. Bisholt has appeared with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda in Luigi Dallapiccola’s Partita at Musiikkitalo Helsinki (2020). She has also performed in Stockholm Concert Hall in Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Laudate Dominum, as well as Lars-Erik Larsson’s God in Disguise. In 2021, she appeared at Berwaldhallen Stockholm as soprano soloist in Schubert’s Mass in G major with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malin Broman. Her concert repertoire further includes Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle.

Ms. Bisholt made her recording debut in 2017 with pianist Bengt Forsberg and dB-Productions, featuring previously unrecorded songs by Amanda Maier-Röntgen. Her first solo album, Couples in Love and Music (2020), was released with pianist Bengt-Åke Lundin, followed by Laura Netzel – Chamber Portrait (2021) alongside Simon Crawford-Phillips and Malin Broman. In 2024, she recorded Swedish Songs and Operatic Scenes with the Gothenburg Opera Orchestra under Patrik Ringborg, followed in 2025 by the release of Complete Orchestral Songs by Hugo Alfvén.

Among several recognitions, Ms. Bisholt received the Royal Academy of Music National Scholarship and the Wettergren Foundation Scholarship in 2020, and was the same year nominated for the Soloist Prize.