Silja Aalto, soprano

Finnish soprano Silja Aalto is hailed for the beauty and clarity of her voice and captivating stage presence. Recent highlights in 2026 include her debut as Senta in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer at Opéra de Rouen, Riitta in Kokkonen’s Last temptations at Savonlinna Operafestival and a First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte on European tour with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

Upcoming engagements include Sibelius’s Luonnotar at the Finnish National Opera and her debut as Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly) at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in summer 2026. In August 2026, she will sing Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Mikkeli Music Festival, and she returns to the Finnish National Opera as Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro in October 2026.

Aalto is a regular guest at the Estonian National Opera, where her roles have included Mimì (La bohème), Leonora (Il trovatore) and Elsa (Lohengrin) and Countess (Le nozze di Figaro). In the Finnish National Opera she has appeared as Elisabetta di Valois in Verdi’s Don Carlo and soprano in Christian Spuck’s staged version of Verdi’s Requiem

Her operatic repertoire includes also Leonore (Fidelio), Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Elisabet (Tannhäuser) and Mrs Alice (Falstaff),

Aalto has sung with many prestigious orchestras around the Europe, including BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra among others.

Silja Aalto is the recipient of several major international singing competition.