Katarina Dalayman (born January 25, 1963, in Stockholm) is a Swedish former soprano who has transitioned into a mezzosoprano. She has received critical acclaim singing major operatic roles by composers such as Wagner, Berg, Shostakovich and Bartók, among others. In a recent interview, she commented that Wagner's music "[has] always been closest to my heart, always, since I started singing".[1]
The daughter of a seamstress, who had herself previously considered a career in acting, Dalayman went on to become a student at the Stockholm Opera Conservatory. Whilst still at college, she had already sung Sieglinde (from Wagner's Die Walküre) in public. Her debut was as Amelia in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1991.
After training as a mezzosoprano, she sang Fricka and Waltraute in the 2017 revival of Valdemar-Holm's Wagner Ring Cycle in Stockholm. At the beginning of 2018, she created a well-reviewed Klytaemnestra in the revival of Valdemar Holm's Elektra (the same production she sang the main role Elektra in 2009), also in Stockholm.[2]
