Martina Myskohlid is a Canadian mezzo-soprano and current member of the Dutch National Opera Studio where she is having great success as a young artist. She most recently covered the role of Idamante in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s production of Mozart’s Idomeneo, and she will sing the role of Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in April/May 2025 at the Dutch National Opera (DNO). At the start of the 2024/25 season, she appeared as La Contessa di Ceprano in Damiano Michieletto’s production of Verdi’s Rigoletto at the DNO. During the 2023/24 season at the DNO, Martina sang the role of La sorella infermiera in Barrie Kosky’s new production of Puccini’s Il Trittico, Flora in Tatiana Gürbaca’s production of Verdi’s La Traviata, Zweite Dame in Simon McBurney’s production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and the Contralto (Mezzo) in Tom Johnson’s The Four Note Opera. Other recent roles include Kate Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with l’Opéra de Montréal, Paula in Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas with Yale Opera, and Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte with Toronto Lyric Opera Centre.  Martina also has a great passion for recital programs and she recently performed a solo recital at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw as part of their lunchtime concert series with pianist Daan Boertien in April 2024. She will return to the Concertgebouw in March 2025 to sing the role of Poběhlice in Janáček’s From the House of the Dead.  Martina was a finalist in the Neue Stimmen competition (2024), as well as in the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal competition (2023), and was awarded the Encouragement Award in the Metropolitan Opera National Competition (2022). She obtained her Masters of Music from the Yale University where, upon graduating, was awarded the David L. Kason Memorial Prize, an award given to an outstanding singer at the Yale School of Music. She is a graduate of the Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal where she spent two seasons as a young artist (2021-23).