Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir

After completing her Diploma with honors from the Reykjavík College of Music Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir honed her skills in the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Already during her studies she had the opportunity to sing Cherubino, Meg Page in Verdi’s Falstaff and Andronico in Händel’s Tamerlano in Schlosstheater Schönbrunn, as well as Dorabella at the Daegu Opera House in South Korea and Hänsel (in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel) and Suzuki (in Madama Butterfly) with the Icelandic Opera.

From 2018 to 2020, Eiríksdóttir was member of the international opera studio at the Oper Köln, where she among other roles performed Carlotta in Salieri’s La scuola de’gelosi (The School of the Jealous), Jennie Hildebrand in Weill’s Street Scene, and Mercédès in Carmen.

Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir visited Bergen National Opera for the first time autumn 2023 in the role as Varvara in the opera Katya Kabanova.

Eiríksdóttir has been soloist of the National Theatre Opera in Prague since the 2020/21 season. In the 2023/24 season she will sing a wide specter of roles there: Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Der Komponist (The Composer) in Ariadne auf Naxos, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Varvara in Katya Kabanova, the Kitchen Boy in Rusalka, Stéphano in Romeó et Juliette by Gounod – and Amando in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre.

In September 2023 she was awarded the Thalia Award for the role of Octavian in the new production of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier at the National Theater in Prague. And in October 2024 she was selected as "Rising Star" under International Opera Awards.

Autumn 2024 she was Lucienne in the opera The Dead City (Die tote Stadt) here in Bergen, directed by Calixto Bieito.

Summer 2025 Eiríksdóttir will sing Second Nymph in Rusalka at Bayerische Staatsoper i Munich, conducted by Edward Gardner.

Updated April 2025