Louise McClelland Jacobsen

Danish-New Zealand soprano Louise McClelland Jacobsen trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. She completed the Young Artist Programme at the Royal Danish Theatre in the summer of 2025 and is currently associated with the Semperoper Dresden as a guest soloist. Her operatic repertoire includes roles such as Pamina in The Magic Flute and Gerda in Hans Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen. She also created the role of Alida in the world premiere of Bent Sørensen’s Asle og Alida, for which Bachtrack praised her performance as ‘a series of stratospheric pianissimi that took one’s breath away’. McClelland Jacobsen has appeared as a soloist with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Danish Orchestra and Concerto Copenhagen. In 2025, she was awarded the Aalborg Opera Prize. Her discography includes the music of Rued Langgaard on the acclaimed album Songs and the digital-only EP Christmas Moods , both released by Dacapo Records.