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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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Artist Website

www.marjukkatepponen.com

Management

General Management

Artist 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
	Roméo 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
	Götterdämmerung	Woglinde

*in preparation

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News

From Hell to Heaven: Mefistofele at the Semperoper

On 28 September 2024, Marjukka Tepponen will take to the stage of the Dresden Semperoper for the first time - and with a role debut! In the new production of Boito's Mefistofele (staging: Eva-Maria Höckmayr), Tepponen will make her debut as Margherita under the musical direction of Andrea Battistoni. The other main roles are sung by Krzysztof Baczyk (Mefistofele) and Pavol Breslik (Faust).

All performance dates: 28.09.; 01./06./10./13./18/24.10.2024

For more information about the production:
www.semperoper.de/ ...