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 Blanche de la Force/Dialogues des Carmélites, Nedda/Pagliacci, Corinna/Il viaggio a Reims, Fiordiligi/Così fan tutte, Woglinde/Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, 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).
Furthermore, Tepponen is a regular guest at the renowned Savonlinna Opera Festival, where she performed the roles of Micaela/Carmen, Pamina/Die Zauberflöte, Marguerite/Faust, in Mozart’s Mass in c minor, and most recently as Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and Donna Anna/Don Giovanni.

Highlights of the past seasons include her debut at the MET as Tatyana/Eugene Onegin, her role debuts in the title roles of Madama Butterfly (Oper Frankfurt) and Katia Kabanova (Oper Graz), as Contessa/Le Nozze di Figaro in Turku (Finland), as Donna Anna/Don Giovanni as well as Mimì/La bohème in Rijeka (Croatia), Fiordiligi/Così fan tutte, Tatyana/Eugene Onegin and Contessa/Nozze di Figaro at the Seattle Opera, her Micaela/Carmen and Violetta/La traviata 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 and the Orchestra of the Finnish National Opera, a film music program with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester led by Ulf Schirmer, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater (under Christoph König) 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.

As of season 2024/25, Marjukka Tepponen will be a frequent guest at Dresden’s Semperoper where she has a residence contract. In her first season in Dresden she will be on stage both as Margherita in Boito’s Mefistofele, Mimì/La bohème, Cio-Cio-San/Madama Butterfly and Tatyana/Eugene Onegin.
In addition, she will sing the soprano part in Verdi‘s Requiem at the Dresden Music Festival as well as in Lahti and Tampere. In summer 2025 she will return to the Bregenz Festival with Sibelius’ Kullervo.

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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