
Jenny Carlstedt
mezzo soprano
"The highlight of the evening was Jenny Carlstedt's enormously beautiful and expressive sounding Brangäne. Her full-bodied and warm mezzo-soprano was perfect for the role,- one can only hope she gets the chance to sing it on the big international stages soon" Mats Liljeroos HBL 15.9.2022
“The emotional center of the performance is the waitress Tereza, and Jenny Carlstedt achieves greatnesses in this role."
"Innocence" Tove Djupsjöbacka oct 2022
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NEWS!!
Jenny Carlstedt
Jenny makes debut at
NATIONALE OPERAS & BALLET AMSTERDAM
Innocent by Kaija Saariaho
"Psychological thriller on the opera stage
Role The Waitress
7, 10,13, 17, 19, 22 October 2023
Jenny Carlstedt makes her debut
at the PROMS Royal Albert Hall
with Mahler third Symphony with
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
under Sakari Oramo
19th August 2023
Jenny Carlstedt makes house debut at the
Royal Operahouse in London April 2023.
In Kaija Saariahos highly acclaimed opera "Innocence" in the role of "The Waitress"
Performances: April 17, 20, 26, May 1, 4

Latest Performances

Rubrik 2
Jenny Carlstedt
Tristan und Isolde
Brangäne in Concert autumn 2022
Helsinki Philharmonic under Susanna Mälkki September 2022
"The highlight of the evening was Jenny Carlstedt's enormously beautiful and expressive sounding Brangäne.
Her full-bodied and warm mezzo-soprano was perfect for the role, moreover she had a perfect German pronunciation and suitably empathetic facial expressions-and one can only hope she gets the chance to sing it on the big international stages soon"
Tristan-Stuart Skelton
Isolde- Lise Lindstrom
Kurvenal- Brindley Sheratt
Mats Liljeroos HBL 15.9.2022

Rubrik 2
Jenny Carlstedt
The opera "Innocence" Kaija Saariaho
HELSINKI OPERA oct 2022
ROYAL OPERAHOUSE LONDON Apr 2023
“The emotional center of the performance is the waitress Tereza, and Jenny Carlstedt achieves greatnesses in this role. Her anguished body makes a convincing impression on the stage and vocally she masters the entire fireworks display, with tender melodies, dramatic outbursts and
musty low alto notes. Her scenes with daughter Markéta make the tears flow every single time.”
HBL Tove.djupsjobacka October 2022
“The strongest performance is Jenny Carlstedt's waitress, who plays a key role in the revelation of a tragic secret to the wedding party”
HS Hannu-Ilari lampila.2022
"As a dark center of energy, Jenny Carlstedt fills the stage as the despairing and furious waitress Tereza. Her voice and body in anguish Her scenes with her dead daughter Markéta are downright painful to watch"
Ålandstidningen / Peter Lobråten October 2022
"Jenny Carlstedt,s Theresa, mother of oine of the slaughter children and now a waitress at th wedding, transformed her inability to forget, let alone forgive, into the centerpiece of the work"
Opera Today April 2023 Mark Berry

"Photo Chris Christodoulou"
Jenny Carlstedt
Mahler 3rd Symphony Sakari Oramo
PROMS Royal Albert Hall 19.8.2023
"Carlstedt’s voice was like the starlight in Mahler’s orchestral inky black sky. Fresh and clear-“
Andrew Lohmann London Unattached 20/8 2023
"In the darkness of O Mensch, Finnish mezzo
Jenny Carlstedt sang her pleas to mankind with luxuriantly rich warmth, characterising her soft sound first with tender love, followed latterly by imploring passion in the text. -/and Carlstedt brought convincing remorse to her depiction of the stricken St Peter."
Bachtrack.com Royan Shotton 22/8 2023
"Jenny Carlstedt, the Finnish-Swedish mezzo-soprano, seemed to take into herself all that had gone before: hers is not a large voice, but her identification with Nietzsche’s meditation on human suffering was total. As the embodiment of Earth’s sorrow - she became the focal point of the whole symphony, rather as Dame Sarah Connolly did in Sir Simon Rattle’s performance of the Second Symphony in last year’s Proms. In Urlicht, the mezzo’s passionate longing is to ascend to heaven; here, it is to find the joy that lies deeper than pain. Carlstedt seemed not to notice when the movement ended and the next began; she seemed no part of it, frozen in her D minor anguish as the choirs carolled brightly around her in F major. It was most moving; and it made the sensation of balm as the violins stole in to begin the finale all the keener."
-/This was music-making of a high order; and – as a performance of this work ought to be – a great experience. At the end, the mezzo-soprano Jenny Carlstedt had to wipe away tears before taking her bow. I don’t imagine that she was alone in doing so"
Seen and Heard International
23/08/2023 by Chris Kettle
"Elsewhere, Oramo brought out a raw, wild edge in the orchestra’s sound, balanced with sheer beauty, whether that was the mellifluous posthorn solo or mezzo-soprano Jenny Carlstedt’s deeply felt contribution".
The Times
Rebecca Franks
Monday August 21 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Rubrik 2
Jenny Carlstedt
Thomas Adés Festival Helsinki 2021
" Igor Stravinsky, sung by the marvellous mezzo-soprano Jenny Carlstedt,
-The vocal lines were conveyed with reflective beauty by Carlstedt, with her readings endorsed by Adès’s ever-sensitive keyboard accompaniment. Four Songs yielded to musical enchantment at the highest level.-"
"Closing the first half, Carlstedt and Thomas Adès gave an absolutely enchanting account of Stravinsky’s very last musical composition, the playful masterstroke The Owl and the Pussy-cat (1966).- Beautifully served by witty performance, Stravinsky’s joyfully surreal setting was pure aural delight."
Music Centre, Helsinki
Sunday 24 October 2021, 3 pm
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