Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir is a classical singer, composer, and artist based in Haarlem. Her work moves between visual art and opera, combining voice, movement, and imagery to create performances that are both intimate and expansive. She often uses opera not only as a musical form but as a way of structuring stories, drawing on themes such as power, climate change, and collective experience. Tragicomic tones, popular culture, and everyday observations frequently appear in her practice, reflecting her interest in how personal and social narratives overlap. Sigrún has shown her work in Reykjavík, Amsterdam, and across Europe, collaborating with performers, musicians, and fellow artists. She studied at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and continues to develop projects that blur the line between disciplines, inviting audiences into spaces where music, art, and storytelling meet.
My life is an Opera is a performance work where fragments of text, movement, and classical singing are woven into an operatic auto- biography. It reflects on gendered hierarchies, outsider experiences, and climate anxiety, asking how gender equality and climate justice are deeply interconnected. The piece is both tragic and comic: the audience is invited to share a cake that is slowly cut and eaten throughout the performance, a playful yet poignant metaphor for community, division, and the consumption of shared resources. Influences from TikTok culture and physical comedy are interlaced with classical opera, composting fragments of personal life and popular culture into something open and collective.
