The Swedish soprano Hillevi Martinpelto studied at the Royal Music and Opera Academies in Stockholm. She made her opera début in Madama Butterfly at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1987. She has appeared in leading rôles in Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Aida, Don Carlos, Otello, A Dreamplay, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Iphigénie en Aulide, Iphigénie en Tauride, Falstaff, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Yevgeny Onegin, Un ballo in maschera, and Faust, including guest appearances in Drottningholm Court Theatre, GöteborgsOperan and in Los Angeles, Hamburg, Vienna, Milan, Paris, Cologne, London, Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Glyndebourne, Amsterdam and Tokyo. Concert performances include appearances with Gardiner, Jacobs, Metha, Giulini, Muti, Rattle among others, including eight Promenade Concerts in the Albert Hall in London.