The Norwegian soprano Hilde Leidland studied at the Royal Music and Opera Academies in Oslo and Stockholm. She made her opera début in The Marionnettes (Rosenberg) at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1982. She has appeared in leading rôles in Fra Diavolo, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, Un ballo in maschera, Rigoletto, Carmen, Ariadne auf Naxos, Der Rosenkavalier, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Die Fledermaus, Orlando, Clara (Gefors), Hänsel und Gretel, Die Nachtigall, Parsifal, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Fidelio at the Royal Swedish Opera, Bayreuth (1985-92), Hanover, Salzburg, Berlin, Nice, Oslo, Wiesbaden, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Brussels, Hamburg, Paris, and Tokyo.