Johanna Wallroth

Swedish soprano Johanna Wallroth was thrust into the limelight when she took First Prize at the prestigious Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition in 2019. Wallroth subsequently joined the Opernstudio of Wiener Staatsoper for two seasons and was the recipient of the coveted Birgit Nilsson Scholarship in 2021.

Initially training as a dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School, Wallroth subsequently focused her principal study on voice and went on to graduate from Vienna’s Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (MDW). In 2013, Johanna Wallroth made her operatic debut as Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro) under Arnold Östman at Ulriksdal Palace Theatre, Stockholm, subsequently appearing as Eurydice (Orfeo ed Eurydice) at MDW, Despina (Così fan tutte) at Vienna’s Schlosstheater Schönbrunn and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at Moscow’s Gnesin Academy. Wallroth has since returned to Schlosstheater Schönbrunn as both Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) and Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), portrayed the role of Ismene in Georg Philipp Telemann’s “Orpheus” at Vadstena Castle and performed the roles of Sandmännchen and Taumännchen (Hänsel und Gretel) in a new production for Norrlandsoperan, Umeå. In the 2019/20 season, Johanna made her role debut as Zerlina (Don Giovanni) to great acclaim in a live-streamed semi-staged performance with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under music director Daniel Harding.

Already with an enviable experience on the concert platform, Johanna Wallroth has performed with Sakari Oramo both at Helsinki Music Centre in Mahler’s Symphony No.4 and with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme featuring works by Samuel Barber and Igor Stravinsky. At Drottningholm Barockensemble’s 50th Anniversary concert in 2021, Johanna was guest soloist alongside Anne Sofie von Otter performing arias and duets by Jean-Philippe Rameau, G.F.Handel and Antonio Vivaldi and she sings Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) at the Internationale Barocktage Stift Melk with Stefan Gottfried and Concentus Musicus Wien.

Named as Classical Artist in Residence for the 2022/23 season by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johanna Wallroth joined the orchestra for several concerts across the season including Alban Berg’s “Sieben frühe Lieder” with Daniel Harding, Mozart arias with Martin Fröst and Franz Schubert’s “Mass in E-flat” with Andràs Schiff. Elsewhere, she performed Osvaldo Golijov’s “Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra” with the Gävle Symfoniorkester under Vincenzo Milletari; returned to Mozart’s “Requiem” with the Malmӧ Symphony Orchestra under Bertrand de Billy; and sang her first Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Vladimir Jurowski and Natalia Ponomarchuk.

As of 2023.