Informed operafantomet already about this, but Sofie Asplund (Christine in the Finnish production) is not Swedish but from Åland which is an autonomous region of Finland. She sure is Swedish-speaking and has studied and done most if not all of her professional career in Sweden but she is still not actually Swedish.
Sorry! I was going off an article that described her as “[t]he young Swedish soprano Sofie Asplund”.















