Helena Juntunen

Helena Juntunen is internationally recognised for her expressive portrayals of the lyric repertoire. Recent notable roles include Marietta (Korngold’s Die tote Stadt), and Jenny Hill (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny), both for Opéra national de Lorraine, Marie (Wozzeck) with Opéra de Nice, and Zdenka (Arabella) for Vlaamse Opera.

This season she makes her recital debut at Wigmore Hall and her debut with Sydney Symphony performing Sibelius’s Kullervo under Vladimir Ashkenazy. Role debuts will include Der Ferne Klang in a new production by Stéphane Braunschweig for Opéra National du Rhin, Der Zwerg in a new production by Philipp Himmelmann for Opéra national de Lorraine and I pagliacci in Vilppu Kiljunen’s new production for Finnish National Opera.

Recent concert highlights have included Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the London Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms and at the Lincoln Center under Sir Colin Davis, Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Lucerne Festival under Vladimir Jurowski and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Donald Runnicles. She gave the Korean premiere of Lutoslawski’s Chantefleurs et Chantefables with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra under Ilan Volkov.