Eigil Solberg Smørås
Eigil Solberg Smørås is a Norwegian recording artist, singer-songwriter, and performer from Bergen, whose music blends opera, classical music, pop, and rock into something deeply emotional, cinematic, and personal.
Music has been the one constant in his life.
From an early age, it became the place he could return to — the place where longing, love, pain, hope, and truth could finally become sound. Whether through the power of opera, the intimacy of a song, the rawness of rock, or the emotional directness of pop, music has always been the language that brought him back to himself.
Eigil has spent over 18 years on stage, training and working across opera, musical theatre, acting, and songwriting. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Opera from the Norwegian Academy of Music and a Bachelor’s degree in Acting from Nord University, and has performed in productions including The Phantom of the Opera, Carmen, and The Jungle Book on stages such as Folketeatret, Riksteatret, and the Norwegian National Opera.
But after years of performing other people’s stories, something in him began to ask for a different kind of truth.
He began writing his own songs. hundreds of them, often in quiet moments between rehearsals, travels, hotel rooms, heartbreaks, and new beginnings. Some songs arrived as prayers. Some as confessions. Some as memories. Some as a way to keep going.
Over time, those songs became the bridge between all the worlds he had lived in: the discipline of classical music, the drama of theatre, the vulnerability of songwriting, the beauty of pop melody, and the fire of rock.
His upcoming album, A Symphony of Love, is the beginning of that chapter.
It is the sound of Eigil bringing all of himself into the music, the opera singer, the actor, the songwriter, the seeker, the lover, and the human being behind it all.
At the heart of his music is a simple message:
Love is not just something we find in another person. It is something that calls us back to ourselves.
THE BEGINNING
Hi, my name is Eigil Solberg Smørås
Music entered my life early, and I started playing Classical piano at the age of five.
But I must admit it always felt forced when I played, like it wasn’t truly mine, just the music others wanted me to play.
What lit me up was something else entirely: movement, dance, and the pulse of pop.
So I turned our garden into a stage, performing Billie Jean with my friends as backup singers. The entrance fee? Five Norwegian kroner.
The groove and magic of Michael Jackson was my first love, the spark that set my soul in motion.
NEW DISCOVERIES
In my teens, I discovered rock. I devoured Metallica and Iron Maiden, falling in love with their epic, larger-than-life performances and their raw, gritty sound.
I even formed a band, picking up the guitar and singing whenever I could.
At thirteen, I dreamed of singing like Ronnie James Dio, but my voice often went hoarse.
Still, the spark never faded. I began writing my own songs, letting the fire of rock call to me, even though I didn’t yet know how to perform like the legends I adored.
THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL
In my 20s I went to opera school, then acting school. I performed in Operas like Carmen and musicals like The Phantom of the Opera, toured Norway as Baloo in The Jungle Book.
On paper, I was succeeding. But on the inside I felt nothing but sadness and emptiness. I was living a life others expected of me, instead of a life I actually cared about and loved.
To numb my pain I started treating myself with a “cure” of drugs, alcohol and sex. It was like I was living the rockstar life without actually performing the music.
At one point I took it way too far and overdosed, luckily I survived. That was the wake up call I needed…
I realized that just because you are suceeding at something, doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s the true path for you.
A SYMPHONY OF LOVE
In 2019, I came home from a national musical theatre tour severely depressed.
On the outside, I was performing, singing, and doing what I had trained for. But inside, I felt lost and disconnected from myself.
To ease the pain, I picked up a guitar and began writing songs again, just like I had done when I was younger.
Slowly, something started to shift. The sadness began to lift. It felt like music was helping me turn pain into love, not by escaping what I felt, but by giving it a voice.
Over the next years, I wrote hundreds of songs.
Some came from heartbreak. Some came from longing. Some came from the search for meaning, God, truth, and home. And some came from the deepest part of me that still believed in love.
Then I met the love of my life.
And suddenly, the songs began to gather around one clear theme: love, not as an idea, but as something real, terrifying, beautiful, vulnerable, and alive.
A Symphony of Love is the result of that journey.
It is the sound of years of searching, healing, falling apart, finding my voice, and finally daring to love with my whole heart.
Now I am ready to share this music with the world.
And I would love for you to be part the journey of bringing A Symphony of Love to life.