Biography

Photographer: Josefin Agnekrans

Mathilda Goike is a Swedish mezzo-soprano. Currently a master student at Oslo Opera Academy in Norway, graduating this June. Mathilda was awarded The Swedish Wagner Society’s Bayreuth Scholarship 2025. Season 2025/26 she will be one of the Young Artists at the National Opera Studio in London, UK.

During this spring, she appeared as Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, directed by Victoria Bomann-Larsen and conducted by Kornilios Michailidis. Mathilda also performed the Queen in Thomas’s Hamlet.

In May she will perform both new composed music, in collaboration with master composers from Norwegian Academy of Music, and lied repertoire by Duparc together with the Oslo Philharmonic. In June she will perform Charlotte from Massenet’s Werther, participate in the Elizabeth Connell Prize international singing competition and participate in the final rounds of Belvedere Singing Competition.

Mathilda received her Bachelor’s degree in classical singing from the School of Music in Piteå, Sweden, where she studied with vocal teacher Katherine Osborne.

During her academic studies in Sweden, Mathilda performed the lead role of Jo in Mark Adamo’s Little Women directed by Märit Bergvall, participated in the world premiere of Jan Sandström’s opera Night Hawks, and appeared as a chorister in Puccini’s Suor Angelica. In addition she also participated in a Baroque course where she had the pleasure to work with the American tenor Zachary Wilder. On top of her bachelor studies she also participated in a one year opera course with guest teachers as contralto Anna Larsson and bass-baritone Lars Arvidsson. In the summer of 2023, she appeared in Verdi’s Macbeth, directed by Catarina Gnosspelius and conducted by Simon Kim Phipps, at Läckö Castle in Sweden as one of the witches.

She was awarded The Royal Skyttean Society Prize 2022 to a young musician in recognition of her outstanding artistic promise.

After finishing her studies in Sweden in 2022, she relocated to Norway. She first completed the One Year Opera Programme at the Oslo Opera Academy, where she is now pursuing her master’s degree. Since 2022, she has studied under mezzo-soprano Tune Kummervold, and as of fall 2024, she is also working with vocal coach Brian Jauhiainen.

During her time at the Opera Academy, Mathilda has performed operatic roles include the title role in Händel’s Rinaldo, Polina in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, Fidalma in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto, Sesto in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Giovanna in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, and Dalila in Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila. All of these productions has been directed by either Jacopo Spirei, Ebbe Knudsen and Mira Bartov. She also debuted as Kastrubai in Philip Glass’s Satyagraha, which was performed at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in fall 2024, conducted by Magnus Loddgard.

In addition she has done excerpts as Wendy in a Peter Pan children opera in collaboration with the Oscarsborgs Opera, a modern Norwegian opera based on the folktale Syvende far i huset and excerpts from Carmen.

She has participated in several concerts, including Oslo Operaball, New Year’s concert in Lillestrøm with the Romerike Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jan Ola Amundsen, Røykenvik Opera Festival and at the Oslo Opera Festival by Opera til Folket, where she partially performed new composed music by Marcus Paus and Solveig Sørbø, among others.