Tove Dahlberg

Hanna Tove Dahlberg (born April 25, 1973 in Stockholm) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano opera singer, active on the international opera scene. In 2005 Dahlberg was one of a group of world-class musicians who were permitted to perform inside a building at Auschwitz for the first time ever during the filming of the International Emmy Award winning TV documentary "Holocaust: A Music Memorial Film".
Education.
Dahlberg attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. She then studied jazz singing at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm before starting her opera singer training - first at "Opera Studio 67" in Stockholm, and then until 2002 at the University College of Opera, also in Stockholm. Subsequently, she was admitted at the Covent Garden opera's two year "Vilar Young Artists Programme" (later renamed "Jette Parker Young Artists Programme") in London.
Career.
Dahlberg debuted on the Royal Opera Stockholm as "Cherubino" in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Subsequently, she has primarily worked on opera and concert stages outside Sweden. In Europe, she has performed in, among other things, Royal Opera House in London, Glyndebourne, La Monnaie Opera House in Brussels, Opera de Lyon, the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Maggio Musicale in Florence. In the United States, she has sung at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York, with the San Francisco Symphony and the Chicago Opera Theater. In Asia, she has sung with the English baroque orchestra "Academy of Ancient Music" at the "Macau International Music Festival".
Among conductors Tove Dahlberg has worked with Sir Antonio Pappano, William Christie, Semyon Bychkov, Sir Charles Mackerras, Jane Glover and Kazushi Ono.
Dahlberg has performed in the title roles in Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande", Boesmans’ "Julie", and Scarlatti's "Il Tigrane". Among other roles on international scenes she has sung "Dorabella" in Mozart's Così fan tutte, "Fyodor" in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and "Hermia" in Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". 
At Folkoperan in Sweden Dahlberg has sung roles such as "Cleopatra" in Handel's Giulio Cesare, "Siebel" in Gounod's Faust and "Valencienne" in Lehár's The Merry Widow.
On other Swedish scenes Dahlberg has performed in several opera roles written for specifically her, among them "Calypso", "Eurycleia" and "Helena" in Reine Jönsson's "Return to Ithaka" (Swedish title: "Strändernas svall") at Vadstena Academy. She has also portrayed opera singer "Moster" in Paula af Malmborg Ward’s one act "Would you like a frosty pear?". At the Drottningholm Palace Theatre she sang the role of Linnaeus's Daughter "Lisa Stina" in Jonas Forssell’s "The Garden".
Tove Dahlberg's repertoire as concert and oratory singer includes Mozart's "Great Mass in C minor" and "Requiem", Bach's "Christmas Oratorio", "Mass in B minor" and "St John Passion", Rossini's and Pergolesi's "Stabat mater" and Vivaldi's "Gloria".
Both the French music television channel Mezzo and SVT have shown the Lyon Opera production of Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" with Dahlberg in the role of "Dorabella". On the BBC music channel Radio 3 she has participated in a number of solo performances. She was also one of the soloists in BBC's "In memory of Auschwitz", a European co-production, which in 2005 was awarded with an Emmy as best cultural film, later released on DVD.
Dahlberg lives in Stockholm.
Awards and Scholarships.
Tove Dahlberg has received numerous scholarships and awards. Among them are: