Harpa Ósk Björnsdóttir

A soprano based in Basel, and a member of OperAvenir, the singers' ensemble at Theater Basel, since 2024. In the 2025/26 season she sang Pamina in The Magic Flute and Orff's Carmina Burana with the Basel Symphony Orchestra. She has sung Woglinde in Wagner's Götterdämmerung at Bühnen Bern, and appeared at Oper Leipzig with the Gewandhausorchester and at Oper Halle with the Staatskapelle Halle. She made her debut with the Icelandic Opera as Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro, was among the winners of Ungir einleikarar, the young soloists' competition run by the Iceland Symphony and the Iceland University of the Arts, and took the title Voice of the Year in the university division of Vox Domini in 2019. She studied opera at the August Everding Theatre Academy in Munich and at the Felix Mendelssohn conservatoire in Leipzig, and holds a BSc in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Iceland.