The Icelandic soprano Marta Kristín Friðriksdóttir is a member of the opera ensemble at the Staatstheater Kassel.

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Her roles in the 2025/26 season there will include Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) and the soprano solo in Hanns Eisler’s Deutsche Sinfonie.

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She made her house debut in Kassel during the 2024/25 season as Fiordiligi and Micaëla (Carmen), and sang Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at the Vorarlberger Landestheater in the same season.

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In 2023, she was awarded the main prize at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg competition and performed at their summer festival as Baronessa Eugenia (La Molinara). She returned to Rheinsberg in 2024 as Iphigénie in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide, performing alongside Vivica Genaux and Dietrich Henschel. Other engagements include Alma in the world premiere of H. Neumann’s Die Leute auf Borg in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria (2024).

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A prizewinner of numerous international competitions, she received second prize at Havets Röst in Åland (2023), the Youth Prize at the DEBUT competition in Weikersheim (2022), was a finalist in the Belvedere competition in Jurmala (2022), sang in the final round of Neue Stimmen (2019), and won first prize in both the Young Soloists competition of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra (2021) and Vox Domini in Reykjavík (2017).

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She graduated with distinction from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2024 with a Master of Arts in Opera and Music Theatre.