“Sparkling Swedish soprano” Johanna Wallroth was thrust into the limelight in 2019 when she took First Prize in the Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition. She has subsequently joined the Opernstudio of Wiener Staatsoper for two seasons and was the recent recipient of the 2021 Birgit Nilsson Scholarship. Originally trained in ballet, Wallroth shifted her principle focus to voice, going on to graduate from Vienna’s Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (MDW). She made her operatic debut in 2013, as Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro) at Ulriksdal Palace Theatre, Stockholm, and subsequently appeared as Eurydice (Orfeo ed Eurydice) at MDW, Despina (Così fan tutte), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at Vienna’s Schlosstheater Schönbrunn and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at Moscow’s Gnesin Academy. She has ssung Ismene in Telemann’s Orpheus at Vadstena Castle and performed Sandmännchen and Taumännchen (Hänsel und Gretel) at Norrlandsoperan, Umeå.
