Johanna Wallroth

Born in Stockholm in 1993, the soprano Johanna Wallroth initially trained as a classical ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School before studying voice at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. She made her operatic debut in 2013 as Barbarina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro under the direction of Arnold Östman and shortly thereafter made a guest appearance as Despina in Così fan tutte at the Schönbrunn Palace Theater in Vienna. She won the Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition in 2019 and in 2021 was awarded the Birgit Nilsson Scholarship. Johanna Wallroth was a member of the Opera Studio of the Vienna Staatsoper in 2020-22, appearing there for example as Fortuna in a new production of Monteverdi’s Poppea conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado; she also sang roles in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Verdi’s Don Carlo, and Strauss’s Die Fledermaus. Daniel Harding engaged her as Zerlina for a semi-staged performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. She then sang Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the International Baroque Days at Melk Abbey, and in the summer of 2022 she made a guest appearance as Leocasta in Vivaldi’s Il Giustino at Drottningholm. She has also appeared at Zurich Opera as a soprano in Christian Spuck’s Monteverdi ballet. Johanna Wallroth is moreover a sought-after concert singer: she has participated in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony in performances led by Sakari Oramo and Daniel Harding and has sung in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Opéra de Lyon and Mozart’s Requiem with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Johanna Wallroth was artist-in-residence with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in the 2022-23 season, performing Berg’s Seven Early Songs, arias by Mozart, and Schubert’s Mass in E-flat major under Sir András Schiff. She has also performed with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski, the Vienna Academy and Martin Haselböck, and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Håkan Hardenberger.

July 2023