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.
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 (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 concertante 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 2021/22 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) and the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki for 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.
Artist Website
www.marjukkatepponen.comManagement
General ManagementArtist Manager

Ingunn Sighvatsdóttir
Artist Manager
ingunn@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-173-2 067 821
Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
Bach, J.S. | B minor mass |
St. John Passion | |
St. Matthew Passion | |
Berg | Sieben frühe Lieder |
Brahms | Ein deutsches Requiem |
Britten | Les Illuminations |
Dvorak | Stabat Mater |
Haydn | The Creation |
Mozart | Mass in c minor |
Requiem | |
Orff | Carmina Burana |
Rossini | Stabat Mater |
Sibelius | Kullervo |
Strauss, R. | Vier letzte Lieder |
Verdi | Requiem |
Repertoire Opera
Bizet | Carmen | Frasquita |
Micaëla | ||
Boito | Mefistofele | Margherita* |
Dvorak | Rusalka | Rusalka* |
Gounod | Faust | Marguerite |
Romeo et Juliette | Juliette* | |
Janácek | Katia Kabanova | Katia* |
Korngold | Die tote Stadt | Julietta |
Kivilaakso & Toppinen | Indigo | Aurelia |
Kuusisto | Fräulein Julie | Kristin |
Aino Ackté | Aino Ackté | |
Mona | Jää / Ice | |
Madetoja | The Ostrobothnians | Liisa |
Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | Pamina |
Don Giovanni | Donna Anna | |
Donna Elvira* | ||
Zerlina | ||
Le nozze di Figaro | Contessa | |
Susanna | ||
Così fan tutte | Fiordiligi | |
Leoncavallo | Pagliacci | Nedda |
Poulenc | Dialogues des Carmélites | Blanche de la Force* |
La voix humaine | Frau | |
Puccini | Gianni Schicchi | Lauretta |
La Bohème | Mimì | |
Musetta | ||
Madama Butterfly | Cio-Cio-San | |
Turandot | Liù | |
Purcell | Dido and Aeneas | Belinda |
Rautavaara | House of the Sun | Noora |
Rossini | Il viaggio a Reims | Corinna |
Tschaikowski | Eugene Onegin | Tatjana |
Verdi | Aida | Oberpriesterin |
Don Carlo | Elisabetta | |
Ernani | Elvira* | |
Falstaff | Alice* | |
Il trovatore | Leonora* | |
La traviata | Violetta | |
Otello | Desdemona* | |
Un ballo in maschera | Amelia* | |
I vespri siciliani | Hélène* | |
von Suppé | Il ritorno del Marinaio | Jela |
Wagner | Das Rheingold | Woglinde |
*in preparation
News

"Un bel dì ..." Madama Butterfly in Graz
The postponed new production of Madama Butterfly from the year 2020 now finally comes on stage! The new staging by Floris Visser with Marjukka Tepponen als Cio-Cio-San (she performed the role most recently at Opera Frankfurt to wide acclaim) celebrates its premiere on 15th October 2022 at Oper Graz.Later in Graz's 22/23 season Marjukka can be seen and heard for the first time in the title role of Katia Kabanova. Premiere on 18th March 2023.
Further Madama Butterfly performances:
October 20/28/30r; November 2/5/17/23/27; December 2/10/18 and January 15/18
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Video

Seattle Opera
Act I Finale

Seattle Opera
Sisters' Act II Duet
Marjukka Tepponen/Total Cello Ensemble - "That's why I feel so sad"
Press
Das Rheingold / Finnish National Opera Helsinki / 17.09.19 / onlinemerker.com
"stach [...] als Woglinde mit ihrem vollen und klaren Sopran hervor"
Cosi fan tutte / Seattle Opera / 15.01.18 / seattletimes.com
"a lot of great technique in Marjukka Tepponen's Fiordiligi"
Operngala / Heidelberger Stadthalle / 22.11.17 / Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
"federleicht servierte Koloraturen blitzsauber intoniert"
Operngala / Apollo Theater Siegen / 20.11.17 / wp.de
"lässt ihre Stimme auch bei virtuosesten Koloraturen scheinbar mühelos in höchste Höhen schweben"
Salmo / Teatro-Auditorio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial / 02.10.17 / beckmesser.com
"buen gusto y un timbre muy cálido"
Salmo / Teatro-Auditorio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial / 29.09.17 / scherzo.es
"con una emisión homogénea y de bonitas cualidades"