Saara Rauvala is a soprano from Salo, Finland who sings “ brilliantly beautifully with dewy freshness and smooth soprano over the entire register.” (Aftonbladet, SV) and who posses a “clean and convincing voice with a gentle and fine timbre” (Corren, SV)
 
In the current season 23-24 Rauvala performs as Yia (Madetojas Okon Fuoko) with the Oulu Symphony Orchestra under I-Han Fu. In the season 2022-23 Rauvala made her house debut in the Finnish Nationalopera as Papagena and in Vaasa Opera as Liisa in Madetoja’s Pohjalaisia. In addition, she sang as Vickan (Vickan ja Väinö, Damström) in Finnish Opera BOX’s production.
 
Rauvala has received her Master of Opera at the Malmö Opera Academy and her bachelor’s degree of Opera at the University College of Opera in Stockholm
 
In the spring 2021 she performed Menotti’s “The Telephone” at the Malmö Opera as her diploma at the Malmö Opera Academy. As a part of her studies, she has sung the roles of The Princess in Benjamin Staern’s opera Snödrottningen at Malmö Opera and toured southern Sweden with 30 performances of a show celebrating Malmö Opera’s 75th anniversary. In 2019 she sang Poulenc’s monologue opera “La voix humaine” in Helsinki Music Centre and in the autumn 2018 she was the soprano soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with Stockholm Concert Orchestra.
 
During her studies in Stockholm 2015-18 she performed the roles of Monica (G.C. Menotti: The Medium), Miss Wordsworth (B. Britten: Albert Herring) and did her debut at The Royal Swedish Opera as Papagena (W.A. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte).  
 
In the summer of 2016, she sang the leading role in the Vadstena Academy´s production “Kär och Galen” in Giovanni Paisiello’s opera Nina. The following year she sang Pamina in Lyric Opera Studio Weimar’s production Die Zauberflöte). In the summer 2018 she sang Antonia (The tales of Hoffmann) in Opera Studio Aino’s concert performance. 
 
Among opera, Rauvala has a varied repertoire of lieder and chamber music, which includes composers such as Berg, Sibelius, Madetoja, Melartin, Kuula, Grieg, Schubert, Wolf, Strauss, and Debussy. 

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