Iida Antola is a Finnish soprano whose voice has been described as “a full soprano that also covers the mezzo range” (Online Music Magazine) and “dark coloured, full sounding lirico spinto” (Süddeutsche Zeitung).
Season 2025-2026 marks Iida’s German debut at Theater Regensburg as MARIE ANTOINETTE in The Ghosts of Versailles by John Corigliano. Her other recent roles include the title roles in Puccini’s SUOR ANGELICA and Rossini’s ADINA, as well as Leonora (IL TROVATORE/Verdi), Donna Elvira (DON GIOVANNI/Mozart), and Micaëla (CARMEN/Bizet). She has performed in productions at the Opéra de Limoges in France, the Kraków Philharmonic and the Rossini in Wildbad Festival, as well as the Finnish National Opera and the Tampere Opera.
Antola is also an exceptional interpreter of contemporary music: she has sung the role of Muriel in Alexander Raskatov’s ANIMAL FARM, the role of the Bride in Kaija Saariaho’s last opera INNOCENCE and Messiaen’s POÈMES POUR MI with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Antola was awarded the Bel Canto Prize, the Audience Award and the Inge Borkh Scholarship at the International Bel Canto Festival “Rossini in Wildbad”. She is also a prize winner of Lappeenranta Competition (2023) in Finland and the Paula Salomon Lindberg Competition (2017) in Berlin, and has been a finalist in many international competitions such as the ARD Competition in Munich (2021) and the Hugo Wolf Competition (2018) in Stuttgart. Her debut CD “The truth about love” was released on Alba Records in 2023 and she can also be heard on “Le pays de nor désirs” (2025) on B Records. Iida is an alumnus of young artist programs at Bel Canto Festival “Rossini in Wildbad”, Lied Academy d’Orsay Royaumont and Gstaad Menuhin Festival.
Marie Antoinette – The Ghosts of Versailles (Corigliano) – Theater Regensburg
Muriel – Animal farm (Raskatov) – Finnish National Opera
Liisa – The Ostrobothnians (Madetoja) – Finnish National Opera
Leonora – Il Trovatore (Verdi) – Teatro Mancinelli / Spazio Musica
Suor Angelica – Suor Angelica (Puccini) – Berlin Opernfest
Adina – Adina (Rossini) – Royal Opera Festival Krakow
The Bride – Innocence (Saariaho) – Finnish National Opera, cover at Festival
d’Aix-en-Provence
Micaëla – Carmen (Bizet) – Tampere Opera
Donna Elvira – Don Giovanni (Mozart) – Wien Palais Eschenbach
Pamina – Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) – Finnish National Opera
Écho – Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss) – Opéra de Limoges
Marzelline – Fidelio (Beethoven) – Tampere Opera
Christine – The Phantom of the Opera (Lloyd Webber) – Finnish National Opera
OPERA REPERTOIRE
BELLINI
Adalgisa / Norma
BIZET
Micaëla / Carmen
BRITTEN
Ellen Orford / Peter Grimes
CHARPENTIER
Louise / Louise
CORIGLIANO
Marie Antoinette / The Ghosts of Versailles
DONIZETTI
Anna Bolena / Anna Bolena
DVOŘÁK
Rusalka / Rusalka
GOUNOD
Marguerite / Faust
MOZART
La Contessa di Almaviva / Le Nozze di Figaro
Donna Elvira / Don Giovanni
Fiordiligi / Così fan tutte
Vitellia / Clemenza di Tito
OFFENBACH
Antonia / Les contes d’Hoffmann
POULENC
Elle / La voix humaine
Blanche de la Force / Dialogue des Carmélites
PUCCINI
Mimì / La Bohème
Suor Angelica / Suor Angelica
Liù / Turandot
Cio-Cio San / Madama Butterfly
RASKATOV
Muriel / Animal Farm
ROSSINI
Adina / Adina
Armida / Armida
Mathilde / Guillaume Tell
SAARIAHO
The Bride / Innocence
- STRAUSS
Arabella / Arabella
Komponist / Ariadne auf Naxos
Die Feldmarschallin / Der Rosenkavalier
TCHAIKOVSKY
Tatyana / Eugene Onegin
VERDI
Leonora / Il trovatore
Desdemona / Otello
WEBER
Agathe / Der Freischütz
ORATORIO/KONZERT
J.S. BACH
Matthäus-Passion
H-Moll-Messe
Weihnachtsoratorium
BEETHOVEN
Messe in C-Dur
- Sinfonie
BERG
Sieben frühe Lieder
BRAHMS
Ein deutsches Requiem
BRITTEN
Les illuminations
For our Hunting Fathers
CHAUSSON
Chanson perpetuelle
DVOŘÁK
Requiem
GRIEG
Solvejgs sang / Peer Gynt, op. 23
HAYDN
Die Jahreszeiten (Hanne)
Die Schöpfung
Paukenmesse
Nelsonmesse
Salve Regina in E
Salve Regina in g
HANDEL
Agrippina condotta a morire
The Messiah
Semele (Semele)
MAHLER
- Sinfonie
- Sinfonie
MENDELSSOHN
Elias
MESSIAEN
Poèmes pour Mì
MOZART
Requiem
Messe in C-moll (II Sopran)
PERGOLESI
Stabat mater
POULENC
Gloria
RAVEL
Shéhérazade
ROSSINI
Petite messe solennelle
Stabat mater
SAARIAHO
Quatre instants
SAINT-SEANS
Oratorio de Noël
SIBELIUS
Luonnotar
SCHÖNBERG
Pierrot Lunaire
6 Lieder op. 8
STRAUSS
Vier letzte Lieder
VIVALDI
In furore iustissimae irae