Biography
The Icelandic soprano, Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir, studied at the Icelandic University of the Arts (with Kristinn Sigmundsson and others) and received her bachelor's degree summa cum laude from the University Mozarteum Salzburg in 2019, where she studied with Professor Michèle Crider, Alexander von Pfeil and Gernot Sahler and where she also completed her master's degree in opera performance in 2021.Her operatic roles include Donna Anna/Don Giovanni, Contessa/Le nozze di Figaro, Cunegonde/Candide, Giulietta /Les contes d'Hoffmann, Servilia /La clemenza di Tito, Mrs Julian in Britten's Owen Wingrave, Queen of the Night, 1st Lady /The Magic Flute, Gilda /Rigoletto, Oscar /Un Ballo in maschera, Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, as well as La Contessa Armelinda in Gli Uccellatori by F.L. Gassmann, and Venus in Venus and Adonis by John Blow.
Highlights of recent seasons were her Contessa/Le nozze di Figaro at the Icelandic Theatre in Reykjavik, Cunegonde in a concert performance of Bernstein’s Candide as well as her Ännchen in a new production of Der Freischütz at Theater Kiel, La contessa Armelinda in Gassmann’s opera Gli Uccellatori at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca, Queen of the Night/Zauberflöte at Theater Kassel and with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, 1st Servant/Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Dresden Semperoper under Christian Thielemann, 1st Lady/Magic Flute at Aalto-Theater Essen, as well as Belinda in concert performances of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in Vilnius.
In addition to opera, Bryndís could be heard as a soloist in various concert performances. Among others, she sang Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Vivaldi's Nulla in Mundo RV 630, Mozart’s Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana, Beethoven's Symphony no 9, Thorvaldsdottir’s Ad Genua, and Berio's song cycle Folk Songs with orchestras such as the Prague Royal Philharmonic, the Salzburger Orchester Solisten and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in Lithuania, the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Gasteig in Munich, the Espacio Turina in Seville, the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik and the Sala Santa Cecilia in Rome.
In the current season 2025/26, she will make her debut as Donna Anna/Don Giovanni at Seville’s Teatro de la Maestranza and return to Theater Kiel for Orff's Carmina Burana.
In addition, she can be heard in Mahler’s Symphony no 8 for the first time with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra under Eva Ollikainen and at the Reykjavík Opera Days as part of the 30th anniversary of the Icelandic Wagner Society, where she will perform Waldvogel and Rhinemaiden at the closing concert in the Harpa Concert Hall.
Bryndís is the recipient of numerous scholarships and the winner of several prizes; she won first prize and a special prize at the XVIII Certamen Nuevas Competition in Seville in 2022, first prize at the Riccardo Zandonai Competition in Garda, Italy and the Danubia Talents Liszt International Online Music Competition in 2021, and was also the winner of the Icelandic Young Soloists Competition and the Duschek Competition in 2018. In 2025 she was awarded Iceland's most important music prize, the Gríma Prize, as ‘Singer of the Year’ for her interpretation of the Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro.
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Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
| Beethoven | Symphony no 9 |
| Mozart | Requiem |
| Orff | Carmina Burana |
| Pergolesi | Stabat Mater |
Repertoire Opera
| Bernstein | Candide | Cunegonde |
| J.Blow | Venus and Adonis | Venus |
| Britten | Owen Wingrave | Mrs. Julian |
| F.L. Gassmann | Gli uccellatori | La contessa Armelinda |
| Humperdinck | Hänsel und Gretel | Sandmännchen |
| Taumännchen | ||
| Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Konstanze |
| Die Zauberflöte | 1. Dame | |
| Königin der Nacht | ||
| Don Giovanni | Donna Anna | |
| La clemenza di Tito | Servilia | |
| Le nozze di Figaro | Contessa | |
| Offenbach | Les contes d´Hoffmann | Giulietta (Version Koloratura) |
| Olympia | ||
| Purcell | Dido and Aeneas | Belinda |
| Salieri | Prima la musica poi le parole | Tonina |
| Strauss | Die Frau ohne Schatten | 1. Dienerin |
| Verdi | Rigoletto | Gilda |
| Un ballo in maschera | Oscar | |
| Wagner | Siegfried | Waldvogel |
News
The Icelandic 'Singer of the Year' at Teatro de la Maestranza
On October 10, 2025, Bryndís Gudjonsdóttir made her debut as Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni at Seville’s Teatro de la Maestranza with great success! In Cecilia Ligorio's production for the Cologne Opera, Bryndís took on the virtuoso role on two evenings with a "confondante cirtuosité vocale"(ResMusica).In addition, in June 2025 Bryndís was awarded Iceland's most important music prize, the Gríma Prize, as ‘Singer of the Year’ for her interpretation of the Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro.
A big congratulations!
Back home, she will continue with the Reykjavík Opera Days, where a number of Icelandic and international Wagner singers will perform excerpts from Wagner's works as part of the 30th anniversary of the Icelandic Wagner Society. On October 26, 2025, Bryndís can be heard as Waldvogel and Rhinemaiden at the closing concert in the Harpa Concert Hall.
(also pictured: tenor Pablo Martínez as Don Ottavio)
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Press
Der Freischütz / Theater Kiel / 29.10.24 / deropernfreund.de
"Ebenfalls ein absoluter Pluspunkt dieser Besetzung ist Bryndís Gudjónsdóttir als Ännchen. Wie die zuvor genannten Protagonisten auch, überzeugt sie durch unforcierten Gesang, der stets über das Orchester strahlt."
Carmina Burana / Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla / 20.09.24 / Diario de Sevilla
"Bryndís Gudjónsdóttir, bien conocida del público sevillano desde su triunfo en 2022 en el Certamen Nuevas Voces que organiza la ASAO, que a la postre sirvió algunos de los momentos más destacados de la noche. [...]tiene Gudjónsdóttir una tesitura de soprano ligera, con un timbre cristalino y unos agudos fúlgidos, limpios, brillantísimos. Además es una cantante soberbia, que sabe frasear y regular el caudal sonoro con una suavidad exquisita: después de un delicadísimo "In trutina" empastó maravillosamente con los niños en "Oh, oh, oh, totus floreo" y dejó un "Dulcissime" soberbio, con un impoluto y estratosférico re en la cima del exigente arco en coloratura escrito por Orff."