Jonas Degerfeldt is associated with the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, where he has sung roles such as Tamino in The Magic Flute, Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, An Italian Singer in Capriccio, Eisenstein in The Läderlappen, Fenton in The Merry Wives in Windsor, Don José in Carmen and Leicester in Mary Stuart. Recent seasons have included Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Lenskij in Eugen Onegin, Alfredo in La Traviata, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Fenton in Falstaff, Alfred in The Leather Patch, the title role in Werther, Chevalier de la Force in The Carmelite Sisters and Narraboth in Salome. During the 2012/2013 season, Jonas Degerfeldt guested at Den Norske Opera as Eisenstein in Läderlappen.
Jonas Degerfeldt has appeared at Drottningholm's Palace Theater as Ferrando in Così fan tutte (summers 2000 and 2001), Gustav III in the premiere of Miklós Maro's Kastrater (summer 2004) and the title role in Mozart's Idomeneo in 2014. He has sung Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at Scottish Opera, Ramiro in Cinderella at La Monnaie in Brussels, Sam Polk in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah and Lenskij at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Almaviva in The Barber at the Finnish National Opera and Lenskij in Spoleto and at the Norwegian Opera in Oslo. The summer of 2002 included Achilles in Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide at the Glyndebourne Festival. In the fall of 2002, he was engaged as a cover in this role at the Teatro alla Scala and sang it concertante at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
As a concert soloist, Jonas Degerfeldt appears in works such as Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem, Bach's Passions and Haydn's Creation and the Seasons. Among his concert performances can be mentioned Mozart's Requiem, Alfred in Läderlappen, Creation and Franz Schmidt's Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln; all with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck. Under Laurence Renes, he has sung Don Ottavio in concert performances of Don Giovanni with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Mozart's Requiem with the Royal Philharmonic in Stockholm's Concert Hall.
Jonas Degerfeldt was born in Skellefteå. He is educated at the Academy of Music in Gothenburg and the Academy of Opera in Stockholm. In the spring of 2001, he was awarded the Set Svanholm scholarship.
