Swedish-Brazilian soprano Helena Schuback works on opera and concert stages internationally. Her repertoire ranges from the Baroque to Romanticism, and she is known for her expressive stage presence.
In summer 2026 she sang Leonore in Fidelio at Läckö Opera, following Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Confidencen Opera Festival in 2025. Her other roles include Alcina, Venus (Dardanus), the title role in Pallavicino’s L’amazzone corsara, Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) and Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte). She has also sung Hébé, Phani, Zima, Fatime and Émilie in Les Indes galantes.
Her title role in L’amazzone corsara came in 2022, after she took part in the 12th International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera “Antonio Pietro Cesti” in Innsbruck. She has also appeared at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music. In June 2022 she sang the title role of Aeglé at the Stockholm Early Music Festival with the Orfeus Baroque Ensemble Stockholm (Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra).
In concert, she regularly works with ensembles such as Camerata Øresund and Camerata Nordica, and she has performed in Sweden, Denmark, Slovakia and Austria. She also performs lieder in duo with the pianist Pontus Carron.
Her love of the Slavic languages, with Slovak and Czech closest to her heart, has led her to the music of Janáček, Dvořák and Martinů.
In 2023 she received the Mogren Prize in Music, with the motivation: “Helena Schuback dared to leave behind the violin and make her voice her main instrument. The voice grows, allows itself to be naturally broadened without losing its beauty, and is increasingly suitable for an exciting and demanding new repertoire. We want to see more of her.” The prize allows her to move towards the lyric-dramatic repertoire, with roles such as Tatjana (Eugene Onegin), Káťa Kabanová, Jenůfa, Marie (Wozzeck), Salome and Sieglinde, as well as lieder by Alban Berg and Arnold Schönberg.
That same year she was also one of the ten finalists of the Elizabeth Connell Prize for Young Dramatic Voices in London. In 2024 she was a semi-finalist at the Wilhelm Stenhammar International Competition. Earlier, in 2022, she received the Drottningholm Palace Theatre Opera Prize and a residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, which also awarded her national scholarships in 2021 and 2022.
Helena Schuback obtained a master’s degree in opera from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO) in 2021, where she studied with Paul Farrington and Toril Carlsen. She also holds a master’s degree in violin from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and her violin background informs her musical approach and her feeling for style. She is coached by Audrey Saint-Gil, vocal consultant to the Vienna State Opera’s Opera Studio and guest vocal coach at the Royal Ballet and Opera and the Bayerische Staatsoper, and by Hans-Otto Ehrström, repetiteur at the Vienna State Opera.