Ida Antola

• Recent roles include the role of the Bride in Kaija Saariaho's opera "Innocence", as well as the title roles of Rossini's Adina and Puccini's Suor Angelica
• 2024: Poèmes pour Mi with Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
• 2023: Workshops at the Dutch National Opera for the new commission "The Shell Trial" by Ellen Reid
• 2023-2024: Laureate of Lied Academy d'Orsay-Royaumont in France
• 2023: 1st prize in Lappeenranta Voice Competition, Finland
• 2022: Bel Canto Prize, Audience Prize and Inge Borkh Scholarship in Bel Canto Festival "Rossini in Wildbad"
• 2021: Finalist, International ARD Competition, Munich
• 2018: Finalist, International Schubert Lied Duo Competition, Dortmund
• 2018: Finalist, International Hugo Wolf Lied Competition, Stuttgart
• 2018: 2nd prize, Helsinki Lied Competition
• 2017: 2nd prize, International Paula Salomon-Lindberg Competition
• 2017: 1st prize, Kangasniemi Voice Competition, Finland

Iida Antola is a Finnish soprano whose voice has been described as “a full soprano that also covers the mezzo range” (Online Music Magazine) and “dark coloured, full sounding lirico spinto” (Süddeutsche Zeitung).

Season 2025-2026 marks her acclaimed German debut at Theater Regensburg as Marie Antoinette in The Ghosts of Versailles by John Corigliano. Her other recent roles include the title roles in Puccini’s SUOR ANGELICA and Rossini’s ADINA, as well as Leonora (IL TROVATORE/Verdi), Donna Elvira (DON GIOVANNI/Mozart), and Micaëla (CARMEN/Bizet). She has performed in productions at the Opéra de Limoges in France, the Kraków Philharmonic and the Rossini in Wildbad Festival, as well as the Finnish National Opera and the Tampere Opera in her native Finland.

Antola is also an exceptional interpreter of contemporary music: she has sung the role of Muriel in Alexander Raskatov’s ANIMAL FARM, the role of the Bride in Kaija Saariaho’s last opera INNOCENCE and Messiaen’s POÈMES POUR MI with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra.

Antola was awarded the Bel Canto Prize, the Audience Award and the Inge Borkh Scholarship at the International Bel Canto Festival “Rossini in Wildbad”. She is also a prize winner of Lappeenranta Competition (2023) in Finland and the Paula Salomon Lindberg Competition (2017) in Berlin, and has been a finalist in many international competitions such as the ARD Competition in Munich (2021) and the Hugo Wolf Competition (2018) in Stuttgart.

Her debut CD “The truth about love” was released on Alba Records in 2023 and she can also be heard on “Le pays de nor désirs” (2025) on B Records. Iida is an alumnus of young artist programs at Bel Canto Festival “Rossini in Wildbad”, Lied Academy d’Orsay-Royaumont and Gstaad Menuhin Festival.