Biography

Already as a 5-year-old, the Finnish soprano, Marjukka Tepponen, started taking her first piano lessons. She later studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and in Vienna and rapidly went on to achieve success at singing contests, such as the International Mirjam Helin Contest in Helsinki and the contest in Lappeenranta, where she won first prize.

Following her spectacular debut in La traviata at the opera in Jyväskylä in 2009, she was engaged by the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, where she stays a regular guest performer in important roles. Roles at the FNO included Corinna/Il viaggio a Reims, Fiordiligi/Così fan tutte, Woglinde/Das Rheingold, Elisabetta/Don Carlo, Mimì/La bohème, Violetta/La traviata, as well as the main roles in the world premieres of the Finnish operas “Jää” (J. Kuusisto) and “Indigo” (Toppinen/Kivilaakso), and most recently her debut as Nedda/Pagliacci.

Furthermore, Tepponen is a regular guest at the renowned Savonlinna Opera Festival, where she performed the roles of Pamina/Die Zauberflöte, Marguerite/Faust, and Mozart’s Mass in c minor, among others.

Highlights of the past seasons include her debut at the MET as Tatyana/Eugene Onegin, her debut as Contessa/Le nozze di Figaro in Turku (Finland), her debut as Donna Anna/Don Giovanni as well as Mimì/La bohème in Rijeka (Croatia), the latter she sang at Opera Graz as well, Fiordiligi/Così fan tutte and Tatyana/Eugene Onegin at the Seattle Opera, her Micaela/Carmen in Tampere, as well as her successful debut as Liù/Turandot at the Bregenz Festival (led by Paolo Carignani and staged by Marco Arturo Marelli) and her return in the role the following year.

On the concert stage she performed Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, a film music program with the Münchner Rundunkorchester led by Ulf Schirmer, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater as well as Uuno Klami’s Psalmus (under the baton of Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez), all with the RTVE in Madrid, a concert version of Eugene Onegin/Tatyana with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lissabon, Sibelius’ Kullervo with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in Helsinki, Beethoven’s Mass in c minor in Tampere, and recitals with the pianist Marita Viitasalo in Finland.

Most recently she could be heard with Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.

Engagements of the season 2022/23 include her return to the Seattle Opera as Contessa/Le nozze di Figaro and the Savonlinna Opera Festival as Micaela/Carmen, and her debut in the title role of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at Opera Frankfurt as well as in the postponed production at Opera Graz, where she will also be making her debut in the title role of Katia Kabanova.

Future projects bring her, once more, to Savonlinna (as Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette), Tampere (La traviata/Violetta) and to the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki for Götterdämmerung, Dialogues des Carmélites/Blanche de la Force, and a scenic production of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem.

Marjukka Tepponen can be heard on several CD recordings, including a recording of Gounod’s Faust/Marguerite at the Rijeka Opera under Ville Matvejeff (Naxos, 2019) and an Aria Album with Mozart, Bel Canto, and French repertoire.

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Così fan tutte/Fiordiligi
Seattle Opera
Act I FinaleCosì fan tutte/Fiordiligi
Seattle Opera
Sisters' Act II Duet
Marjukka Tepponen/Total Cello Ensemble - "That's why I feel so sad" 

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