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Elin Rombo (right) receives a Hjördis Schymberg scholarship award from Gunnar Lundberg in 2010
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Born |
Katrineholm, Sweden |
29 January 1976
Nationality | Swedish |
Occupation | Operatic soprano |
Eva Elin Rombo, née Karlsson (born 29 January 1976), is a Swedish operatic soprano. In November 2013 she was named Hovsångerska.
Rombo grew up in a musical family in Katrineholm and studied at the esthetics program at De Geergymnasiet in Norrköping. She then continued her education in Canada at Brandon University, and at Operahögskolan i Stockholm (University College of Opera) where she graduated in 2003. During her studies, she made her stage debut at the Royal Swedish Opera (Kungliga Operan) in Stockholm as Christa in Janáčeks The Makropulos Affair.
After graduation, she had the female lead role as Ingrid in Lars-Åke Franke-Blom 's 2004 opera after Selma Lagerlöf's novel The Tale of a Manor (En herrgårdssägen) at Wermland Opera , and as Euridice in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld at the Folkoperan. At the Royal Swedish Opera, she performed as Barbarina and Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, the First Lady in his Die Zauberflöte, Frasquita in Bizet's Carmen, Sister Blanche in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Musette in Puccini's La bohème, and Donna Elivra in Mozart's Don Giovanni.