Musicians

Swedish soprano Miah Persson has been a guest of many international companies and festivals.

In summer 2008 Miah Persson returned to the Salzburg Festival with concert performances under the baton of Mark Minkowski. The 2008/09 season included Miah Persson’s return to Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Furthermore she gave her debut at the Theater an der Wien, as well as her debut at the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona. She appeared in concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and with the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra and gave a recital at Frankfurt Opera.

Future operatic highlights include Fiordiligi at the Bayerische Staatsoper and for the Metropolitan Opera, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier for the Metropolitan Opera and Wiener Staatsoper, and Gretel at the Metropolitan Opera. Miah Persson will sing The Seasons with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin Davis, and appear in concerts at Salzburg Mozarteum, in Lisbon, with Les Musiciens du Louvre and give a recital at London’s Wigmore Hall.

After her great concert debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2003 with the Vienna Philharmonics under Pierre Boulez, she gave her opera debut there in 2004 as Sophie/Rosenkavalier under Semyon Bychkov. A next invitation to Salzburg followed in 2005, where she had another great success, this time as Sifare/Mitridate under Marc Minkowski. In 2005/06 she made a highly celebrated debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London as Susanna/Nozze di Figaro, as well as at the Glyndebourne Festival 2006 as Fiordiligi/Così fan tutte, and sang other great performances of Mitridate at the Salzburg Festival.

The 2006/07 season included Miah Persson’s return to the Stockholm Opera as Pamina/Die Zauberflöte, and she returned to the Frankfurt Opera as Susanna in a new production of Nozze di Figaro. As Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier she made her highly acclaimed debut at San Francisco Opera.

Further Invitations have led her to the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Amsterdam, the Berlin State Opera, the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussles, the Frankfurt Opera, Innsbruck, Montpellier, the New Zealand Festival, the National Opera in Paris as well as the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, the Opera du Rhin in Strasbourg und to the Vienna State Opera.

Miah works regularly with such conductors as Vladamir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Ivor Bolton, Pierre Boulez, Ivàn Fischer, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Sir Charles Mackerras and Marc Minkowski.

With her widely spread concert and recital repertoire Miah Persson has performed at the BBC Proms, in Amsterdam, with Deutsche Symphonie Orchester Berlin, in Brussels, with Budapest Festival Orchestra (Europe Tour), in Dijon, with the Gabrieli Consorts and Players London, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, in Lille, at London Royal Festival Hall, at London Wigmore Hall, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, in Luzern, at New York Carnegie Hall, in Paris, Salzburg, Stockholm and Strasbourg, and at the Verbier Festival.

Miah Persson’s recordings include “Soul & Landscape” with pianist Roger Vignoles (Hyperion), Händel’s “Rinaldo” (as Almirena) under René Jacobs (Hmc), Haydn’s “Die Jahreszeiten” with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under Ivor Bolton (Oehmsclassics), Bach: “Magnificat” with the Collegium Japan Orchestra (BIS), and John Fernström’s “Songs of the sea” with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra (BIS).

In June 2006 she released a new solo record “Mozart: Un moto di gioia: Opera and Concert Arias” (BIS) with Sebastian Weigle conducting the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.

Miah Persson can be heard as duet partner of Bryn Terfel in his in September 2006 released CD “Tutto Mozart! Bryn Terfel sings concert and opera arias” (Deutsche Grammophon).

In November 2006 Mozart’s: “Mitridate, Re di Ponto” (Deutsche Grammophon) was released as a complete edition on DVD, produced by Salzburger Festspiele, with Musicens du Louvre and Marc Minkowski conducting.

In March 2007 Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” the Glyndebourne Festival’s Nicholas Hytner production with Iván Fischer conducting, was released (Naxos). In January 2008 the Gesamtaufnahme of Haydn’s “Schöpfung” (in English) with the Gabrieli Consort & Players of London under Paul MCCreesh was released at Archiv Pro (Universal). In March 2008 the DVD of David McVicar’s production of “Le Nozze di Figaro” conducted by Antonio Pappano with Miah Persson as Susanna was published by the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
Miah Persson is represented exclusively by Askonas Holt Ltd.