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Miah Persson

About this Artist

Internationally renowned Swedish soprano Miah Persson has worked all over the world recitalist and concert artist as well as on the operatic stage.

Throughout her distinguished career, Miah has performed Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Gretel (Hansel und Gretel) and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at the Metropolitan Opera; Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni) at Covent Garden; the title role in L’Incoronazione di Poppea and the Governess in The Turn of the Screw at Teatro alla Scala; Fiordiligi, Sophie, and Susanna at the Wiener Staatsoper; Governess, Fiordiligi, Donna Elvira, and Anne Trulove (The Rake’s Progress) at the Glyndebourne Festival; Donna Elvira at the Théâtre des Champs Élysées and the Liceu Barcelona; Fiordiligi at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, New National Theatre Tokyo, Bayerische Staatsoper, in Stockholm, and for a Deutsche Grammophon recording at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden; Iris (Sunken Garden) for Dallas Opera; L’Incoronazione di Poppea at Carnegie Hall; and Michel van der Aa’s Blank Out for Netherlands Opera with performances in Amsterdam, Rome, and New York.

Highlights of the 2021/22 season include her house and role debut as Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro at the Semperoper Dresden, Countess Almaviva in a new production at the Opéra national de Paris, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Orchestre national de Lyon, and Mozart’s Mass in C minor with Zublin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.