Miah Persson
Soprano
Since making 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 leading interpreters of Mozart, celebrated for such roles as Zerlina and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, and the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. She has also “cemented her place as one of the most intelligent Strauss sopranos of our time” (Bachtrack), following notable role debuts as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier and the Countess in Capriccio.
Persson has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera; the Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden; Teatro alla Scala; the Vienna State Opera; the Paris Opera; the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; the Bavarian State Opera; the Hamburg State Opera; the Semperoper Dresden; the Netherlands Opera; the New National Theatre, Tokyo; and the 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.
Her recital appearances include London’s Wigmore Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Pierre Boulez Saal, Spivey Hall, the Schubert Club in St. Paul, Cal Performances in Berkeley, Vancouver Playhouse, and New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Persson’s 2025–26 season opened with performances as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer at Müpa Budapest and on tour at Vicenza’s Teatro Olimpico and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Other season highlights included Mahler’s Das klagende Lied with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under Ryan Bancroft, a program of Haydn and Berlioz with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra under Magnus Fryk, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Matthew Halls, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 under Alexander Shelley with both the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra in Florida and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.
In addition, she gave a New Year’s concert with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under Andreas Hansson, performed Strauss’s orchestrated songs with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra under Ramón Tébar, and sang Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in Bochum and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra under Tung-Chieh Chuang. She appeared 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.
In 2011, Persson was appointed Hovsångerska (court singer) by His Majesty the King of Sweden. Miah Persson is represented by Intermusica.
