On the brink of an international career
Miah Persson makes her debut as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier
The young Swedish soprano Miah Persson has already made a name for herself in performances at major European opera houses such as the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, the Frankfurt Opera House, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Her roots, however, are not to be found in one of the capital cities where she can be seen and heard nowadays but in the Swedish province of Hudiksvall.
In 1991 Miah Persson went to Stockholm where she first studied at the private conservatory Kulturama, later at the Opera Studio 67 and finally at the University College of Opera, also in Stockholm. She has remained loyal to the capital city where she is a member of the ensemble at the Royal Opera Stockholm. Her repertoire includes almost all the major lyric soprano roles: Susanna in Mozart’s Figaro, Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier and Sandrina in La finta giardiniera. She also has an extensive concert repertoire encompassing music from the classical and romantic periods as well as works by Bach and Handel.
She made her French debut singing Héro in Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict with the European Union Opera at the Théâtre des Champs Élysées and has performed Scarlatti’s Griselda at the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin, and in Innsbruck with René Jacobs – and also Nanetta (Falstaff) at the Aix en Provence Festival and Théâtre des Champs Élysées. More recently she has sung The Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw at Frankfurt Opera, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier at the New Zealand Festival, and Almirena (Rinaldo) in Montpellier and Innsbruck.
Audiences at the Vienna State Opera became acquainted with Miah Persson in October last year when she sang Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Somewhat earlier, last summer, the young Swedish singer made her Salzburg Festival debut as soloist in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony performed by the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Boulez. In the coming summer she makes her stage debut here as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier.
Anja Stiller-Reimpell
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