About
Internationally-renowned Swedish soprano Miah Persson has worked all over the world as concert artist and recitalist, as well as on the operatic stage.
Throughout her distinguished career Miah has performed Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte, Gretel Hansel und Gretel and Pamina Die Zauberflöte at the Metropolitan Opera; Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro at the Royal Opera House; title role L’Incoronazione di Poppea and Governess Turn of the Screw at Teatro alla Scala; Fiordiligi, Sophie and Susanna at the Wiener Staatsoper; Governess The Turn of the Screw, Fiordiligi, Donna Elvira and Anne Trulove The Rake’s Progress at the Glyndebourne Festival; Donna Elvira at the Theatre Champs Elysees 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; L’Incoronazione di Poppea at Carnegie Hall; and Michel van der Aa’s Blank Out, a chamber opera for solo soprano, for Netherlands Opera with performances in Amsterdam, Rome and New York.
Miah’s solo recordings include ‘Soul & Landscape’ with Roger Vignoles (Hyperion), ‘Mozart: Un moto di gioia: Opera and Concert Arias’ (BIS) with Sebastian Weigle conducting the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and ‘Portraits – songs by Clara and Robert Schumann’ (BIS) with pianist Joseph Breinl.
Recent: Donna Elvira Don Giovanni at the Liceu Barcelona; Blank Out at the Lucerne Festival and New York Park Armory; Mozart Requiem with the LA Philharmonic; Mahler 2 at Teatro alla Scala
Forthcoming: Mahler 4 with Orchestre National de Lille; recitals at the Pierre Boulezsaal, Wigmore Hall and the Concertgebouw; Brahms Requiem at the Gulbenkian Foundation; Sunken Garden for Dallas Opera; Countess Capriccio for Garsington Opera