The Swedish soprano Iwa Sörenson studied at the Music Academies in Gothenburg and Cologne and at the Opera School in Gothenburg. She made her opera...

The Swedish soprano Iwa Sörenson studied at the Music Academies in Gothenburg and Cologne and at the Opera School in Gothenburg. She made her opera début in Don Pasquale at Malmö Opera och Musikteater in 1978. She has appeared in leading rôles in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Faust, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Carmen, Rigoletto, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Der Rosenkavalier, Arabella, Capriccio, Dialogues des Carmélites, La Bohème and The Cunning Little Vixen, among other works, at the Royal Swedish Opera. For this release, she has chosen poetic and romantic songs by composers Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Ingemar Liljefors, Sven-Eric Johanson, and others, showing her skill for performing music from each and every time period.