Miah Persson

Since her operatic debut as Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in 1998, Swedish soprano Miah Persson has distinguished herself as one of the world’s
principal Mozart interpreters, celebrated for roles including Zerlina and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte, and Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro. She has also ‘cemented her place as one of the most intelligent Strauss sopranos of our time’ (Bachtrack), having made impactful role debuts as the Marschallin in
Der Rosenkavalier and Countess in Capriccio.

Persson has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Ballet & Opera, Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra National de Paris, Liceu
Barcelona, Bayerische Staatsoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, Netherlands Opera, New National Theatre Tokyo and Dallas Opera. On the concert platform, she has performed with major international orchestras and conductors including Zubin Mehta, Bernard Labadie, Simone Young, and Vladimir Jurowski. Recital appearances include London’s Wigmore Hall, the Wiener Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Pierre Boulezsaal, Spivey Hall, Schubert Club of St Paul, Cal Performances, Berkeley, Vancouver Playhouse, and New York’s Carnegie Hall.

Persson’s 2025-26 season opens with performances of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer at Müpa
Budapest and on tour to Vicenza’s Teatro Olimpico and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Other season highlights include Mahler’s Das klagende Lied with the Royal
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ryan Bancroft, a program of Haydn and Berlioz with the Gävle Symfoniorkester conducted by Magnus Fryk,
Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Matthew Halls, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 conducted by Alexander Shelley with
both the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra in Florida and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.

In addition, she gives a New Year’s concert with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Andreas Hansson, performs Strauss’s orchestrated songs in Denmark with the Aarhus Symfoniorkester conducted by Ramon Tébar, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in Bochum and at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tung-Chieh Chuang. She appears in recital at the Leeds Lieder Festival and London’s Wigmore Hall with pianist Joseph Middleton and for San Francisco Performances with pianist Magnus Svensson.

Miah Persson was appointed Hovsångerska, Court Singer, by H.M. the King of Sweden in 2011.