Miah Persson
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Born | Örnsköldsvik, Sweden | 27 May 1969
Occupation(s) | soprano singer |
Miah Persson (born 27 May 1969 in Örnsköldsvik) is a Swedish soprano, active internationally and in recordings.
Career
Miah Persson grew up in
She made her operatic debut as Susanna in
As a member of the
In addition to these roles, at other opera houses Miah Persson has sung Brigida in Cimarosa's Gli sposi per accidenti (Studio Lirico, Cortina, Italy), Hero in Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris and Baden-Baden), Costanza in Scarlatti's La Griselda (Staatsoper, Berlin), Nannetta in Verdi’s Falstaff (Aix-en-Provence), and Governess in Britten's The Turn of the Screw (Frankfurt).[2] Other recent roles include Arianna in Creta in 2009, and in 2010 she sang her first Anne Trulove at Glyndebourne.[3]
She made her concert debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2003 and her operatic debut there in 2004 (Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier) and returned in 2005 (Sifare in Mitridate).
Her
At the
She created the role of the woman in Blank Out by Michel van der Aa at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam in March 2016, alongside Roderick Williams.[4] In 2018 Persson sang her first Countess Madeleine in Capriccio at Garsington, and followed this in June 2021 with her first Marschallin in Rosenkavalier, one critic commending her "moments of self-reflection" and "burnished quality of old gold in the lyrical passages, with plenty of stamina for the taxing high lines of the Act 3 trio" and felt that "she recalls the great Viennese Marschallins of the 1950s, most of them, like her, graduates from Sophie.[5]
Personal life
Persson's husband is Jeremy Ovenden, a tenor. They have a daughter and a son.[3]
Awards
- 2010: appointed H.M. the King of Sweden[6]
Recordings
Miah Persson's discography includes Mahler Symphony No. 4 with
References
- ^ Morrison R. A most superior Persson. The Times, 13 April 2007.
- ^ a b Biografier, Sangsolister och dirigenter, Kungliga Operan Stockholm, Hösten 2002.
- ^ a b Canning H. People 382: Miah Persson. Opera, August 2010, 924-9.
- ^ Clements, Andrew. Report from Amsterdam. Opera, July 2016, Vol.67 No.7 p862-864.
- ^ Canning, Hugh. Der Rosenkavalier - report from Garsington. Opera, August 2021, Vol.72 No.8, p1028-30.
- ^ http://www.kungahuset.se/royalcourt Swedish Royal Court official home page
External links
- Miah Persson at IMDb