Miah Persson
Soprano
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 Cosi 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; 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.
In concert Miah has sung Bach Mass in B minor at Teatro La Fenice; Bach St Matthew Passion with the Rotterdam Philharmonic; Beethoven 9 with the London Symphony Orchestra cond. Vladimir Jurowski at the BBC Proms; Brahms Requiem with the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia and the London Philharmonic; Peer Gynt with the Vienna Symphony; Nelson Mass at the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg; The Seasons with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic; Mahler 2 with the MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, London Symphony, Teatro alla Scala and the Philharmonie Luxembourg; Mahler 4 with the Basque National Orchestra, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Budapest Festival Orchestra and Orchestre National de Lille; Des Knabens Wunderhorn for the Gulbenkian Foundation; Mozart Requiem with the LA Philharmonic; Theatre des Champs Elysees; Schumann Faust Szenen with the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester and Vier letzte Lieder with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orkester Berlin, Budapest Festival Orchestra and Montreal Symphony Orchestra, as well as recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Spivey Hall, the Schubert Club of St Paul, Cal Performances at Berkeley, Vancouver Playhouse and Carnegie Hall.
Forthcoming engagements in 2017/18 include Mahler 4 with the Orchestre National de Lille and with the Malmö Opera orchestra; recitals at the Pierre Boulezsaal, Wigmore Hall and the Concertgebouw; Mahler 2 with the Philharmonie Luxembourg; Brahms Requiem at the Gulbenkian Foundation; Sunken Garden for Dallas Opera; Countess Capriccio at Garsington Opera; The Creation at the Verbier Festival and Berg Lieder with the Concertgebouworkest. Further ahead she will sing Mahler 4 with the Vienna Symphony; Der Hirt auf dem Felsen with the New York Philharmonic; Countess Le nozze di Figaro with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra; title role Zaide with the Munchner Rundfunkorchester; Shepherd on the Rock with the New York Philharmonic; Mozart Concert Arias on tour with the Freiburger Barockorchester; Cleopatra Giulio Cesare at the New National Theatre and Blanche Dialogues des Carmelites at the Liceu Barcelona.