Johanna Wallroth’s 2024/25 season includes her debut at Royal Swedish Opera, singing Susanna in a new staging of Le Nozze di Figaro under Music Director Alan Gilbert.
She has already reached debuts at Wiener Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich and Glyndebourne Festival Opera, concerts at Berliner Philharmonie, Wiener Musikverein and Philharmonie de Paris. Following her debut with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, she was named Swedish Radio’s Artist in Residence for the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons.
Johanna Wallroth’s journey began at the Royal Swedish Ballet School where she initially trained as dancer before shifting her focus to voice. She went on to graduate from Wiener Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (MDW), gained international attention in 2019 when she secured first prize at the Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition in Helsinki and represented Sweden in the 2023 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.
Wallroth was a member of the Opernstudio of Wiener Staatsoper where she demonstrated a musical and dramatic versatility. As a guest artist, she returned to Wiener Staatsoper in the 2022/23 season as Barbarina in Barrie Kosky’s Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by Philippe Jordan.
Beyond Vienna, Wallroth’s operatic experience includes debuts last season both at Glyndebourne Festival Opera as Cleopatra in David McVicar’s staging of Handel’s Giulio Cesare and at Opéra de Normandie Rouen as Zerlina in Don Giovanni. At Opernhaus Zürich, Johanna debuted in choreographer Christian Spück’s ballet collaboration based on Monteverdi’s Madrigals, she sang Leocasta in Vivaldi’s Il Giustino at Sweden’s Drottningholm Palace Theatre and joined Concentus Musicus Wien at as Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. In 2025 she returns to Drottningholm Festival as Eurydice in Telemann's Orpheus.
On the concert platform, Johanna Wallroth has performed works by Barber: Knoxville with Sakari Oramo conducting Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Opéra National de Lyon, Mozart: Requiem with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Barbara Hannigan and Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding. With Klaus Mäkelä and Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, she has toured extensively with Mahler: Symphony No.4, with Orchestre de Paris and with Daniel Harding she featured in Mahler: Symphony No.8 (Mater Gloriosa), she sang her first Beethoven: Symphony No.9 with Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Natalia Ponomarchuk, and joined Barbara Hannigan and Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Debussy: La damoiselle elué. In October 2024 she premiered Daniel Nelson's song cycle I Am Monster together with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
Wallroth’s special relationship with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra has seen her collaborate with Daniel Harding in both Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder and Mahler: Symphony No.4, with Alan Gilbert in Nielsen: Symphony No.3, with Andràs Schiff in Schubert: Mass in E‑flat and with Martin Fröst in an all-Mozart programme.
Johanna Wallroth was awarded the Birgit Nilsson Scholarship in 2021 and was named a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist in 2023, further highlighting her as an accomplished and exciting young artist. In recital with pianists such as Magnus Svensson, Kristian Attila and Malcolm Martineau. Johanna has recently performed at the Tivoli Festival, Grandi voci series at Göteborgs Operan, Helsinki, and in Spain at the Schubertiade series.
