Sibylle Glosted was born and raised in Denmark. Growing up in a musical and artistic family she began her own musical career at a young age. During the three years at The Royal Danish Academy of Music she did the role of La Princesse in L’Enfant et les Sortiléges by Ravel, performed at the celebration of Ib Nørholm’s 80th birthday and represented The Academy at the annual PULSAR festival in Copenhagen. She did her bachelor at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in 2013 and graduated from The University College of Opera in Stockholm in 2016.
Her recent engagements include The Merry Widow, this year, at The Royal Opera in Copenhagen where she sang the role of Valencienne, Gudar och Gudinnor – an operetta-cabaret at Ystad Theater in Sweden, Marguerite at Malmö Opera, Sweden, in 2023 – where she sang the title role of a rewritten version of Faust by Gounod Marguerite – a Dance with The Devil, where both dancing skills and piano skills were required – which Sibylle also masters. The same year she debuted at The Danish National Opera as Armilla in opera by J.P.E. Hartmann and libretto by H.Ch. Andersen, The Raven.
Her upcoming performances will happen at The Royal Opera in Copenhagen, where Sibylle will return as Papagena in a rewritten version of The Magic Flute for children. She will also be returning to The Danish National Opera in two productions this season, which are to be announced.
During her earlier seasons Sibylle has had some big tours of New Year concerts with some of the great orchestras in Denmark. Among those were Promenadeorkestret Lauseniana and Ensemble Storstrøm with whom she toured around in Denmark. She also made her international debut at Konzert Theater Bern as Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten. Among other engagements there are roles of Elettra in Idomeneo at opera company Kamraterna in Stokholm, Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Royal Opera Copenhagen, Charlotte (Sovedrikken), Sophie Scholl (Zimmermann’s Die Weisse Rose) at Den Fynske Opera and Juliette in Romeo & Juliette by Gounod at Operaen i Midten.
Sibylle started her career in 2016 where she debuted as Ophélia in Hamlet in Absentia by Hugi Gudmundsson (in 2017 she received the prestigious Danish performing art talent prize Årets Reumert Talentpris for that role). After that she returned to Stockholm to sing the part of Miss Schlesin in Phillip Glass’ opera Satyagraha at the Folkopera in Stockholm. In September 2018, Sibylle debuted at Det Ny Teater in Copenhagen in The Phantom of The Opera, where she received great reviews for her portrayal of the main female character Christine Daaé, which she in total performed 96 times. In the summer of 2019, Sibylle debuted at Opera Hedeland in the part of Frasquita in Carmen by Bizet and in September 2019 Sibylle had her royal debut at The Royal Opera in Copenhagen as The Princess in the opera Snow Queen composed by the Danish award-winning composer Hans Abrahamsen. Same year Sibylle went to Bavarian State Opera covering the same part of The Princess in another production of Abrahamsen’s Snow Queen directed by the famous German director Andreas Kriegenburg.
Sibylle also has a big concert repertoire. To name a few, she has sung Messiah by Händel, Carmina Burana, Erl King’s Daughter by the Danish composer Niels W. Gade and her latest big concert was the anniversary concert of the famous conductor Adam Fischer with The Danish Chamber Orchestra in 2022.
