Swedish tenor Daniel Johansson commenced this season with the title role in Tannhäuser at Theater und Philharmonie Essen. Daniel will this winter take on the title role in Parsifal for the first time at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. The spring include performances of Cavaradossi in Tosca at the Royal Swedish Opera and at the Norwegian National Opera. The season 2023/24 begins with the role of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly in Stockholm.
The previous season, Daniel Johansson made his role debut as Pierre Bezukhov in Prokofiev’s War and Peace in Geneva which was followed by another role debut as treasure hunter Elis in Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber at Deutsche Oper in Berlin. In 2020/21 Daniel made his first appearance with the role of Tristan in Theater und Philharmonie Essen’s new production Tristan XS, a reduced version of Tristan und Isolde. Daniel has also sung Cavaradossi in a filmed concert version of Tosca at the Royal Swedish Opera, streamed on Operavision as well as Kungliga Operan Play.
Daniel Johansson was born in the province of Småland in southern Sweden and studied at the University College of Opera in Stockholm. In 2007 Daniel Johansson won the 1st prize in the Gösta Winbergh Award. Since then, he has performed in opera houses such as the Royal Swedish Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, San Francisco Opera, Deutsche Oper, Bregenzer Festspiele, Semper Oper, Dresden, Finlands Nationalopera, Den Norske Opera, Malmö Opera, Theater an der Wien, and Opera Hedeland in Danmark.
He has received several scholarships from the Swedish Royal Musical Academy, the Anders Wall Foundation and others. Daniel Johansson holds the 2009 Birgit Nilsson Scholarship and in 2012 he was awarded the 1st prize in the Wilhelm Stenhammar Competition. In 2018 Daniel Johansson was appointed Court singer by HM King Carl XVI Gustaf. In 2021 Daniel Johansson received the medal Litteris et Artibus from HM King Carl XVI Gustaf, for his outstanding accomplishments as an opera singer.
