Sissel Kyrkjebø

About

Sissel Kyrkjebø is a Norwegian soprano born in Bergen on 24 June 1969, widely regarded as one of the world's leading crossover sopranos. She debuted at 16 and has since sold over 10 million solo albums - a remarkable figure for an artist from a country of five million people. She is internationally known for singing the Olympic Hymn at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, and for her vocals on the 1997 Titanic soundtrack, the best-selling film album in history at 30 million copies sold. Her repertoire spans Norwegian folk songs and Christmas music to opera arias and pop, performed in more than a dozen languages.

10M

sold solo album

30M

sold copies of the Titanic soundtrack (1997)

11×

platinum for the album Strålande jul (2009) in Norway

53K

followers on Instagram

What's new

2026-12
Sissel Kyrkjebø performs Sissels Jul at the Opera House in Copenhagen on December 15, 2026 and at Musikhuset Aarhus on December 14, 2026.
2026
Sissels Jul 2026 is renewed again with new content and tours throughout Scandinavia with 18 planned concerts in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Faroe Islands.
2023
Sissel completed her self-produced project '5 trilogies', written and produced together with her husband Ernst Ravnaas, with the last three trilogies released in the first half of 2023.
2019
On the occasion of her 50th birthday, Sissel released the project Reflections - 50 new songs, one per week for 50 weeks, each with a music video.