During her 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons at Wiener Staatsoper, Johanna Wallroth appeared on stage in a variety of roles including as Barbarina in a livestream performance Le nozze di Figaro under Music Director Philippe Jordan, as Giannetta (L’Elisir d’amore), Une voix céleste (Don Carlos), Ida (Die Fledermaus) all under Bertrand de Billy, as Fortuna, Damigella and Amorino I in the new production of L’Incoronazione di Poppea under Pablo Heras-Casado and La Contessa di Ceprano (Rigoletto) under Marco Armiliato.
Already with an enviable experience on the concert platform, Johanna Wallroth has performed with Sakari Oramo both at Helsinki Music Centre in Mahler’s Symphony No.4 and with Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme featuring works by Barber and Stravinsky; she joined Daniele Rustioni at Opéra de Lyon in Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, sang Mozart’s Requiem with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Barbara Hannigan and was soloist on tour to Antwerp, Amsterdam, Dortmund, Köln, Hamburg and Luxembourg with Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No.4. At Drottningholm Barockensemble’s 50th Anniversary concert in 2021, Johanna was guest soloist alongside Anne Sofie von Otter performing arias and duets by Rameau, Handel and Vivaldi and she sings Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) at the Internationale Barocktage Stift Melk with Stefan Gottfried and Concentus Musicus Wien.
In celebration of her award of the Birgit Nilsson Scholarship, Johanna Wallroth and pianist Magnus Svensson appear in recital at the historic Birgit Nilsson concert hall in Båstad, and together with Malcolm Martineau, she appears as part of Spain’s Schubertiade Vilabertran series. Other recital appearances include at Stockholm’s Konserthuset with Svensson and at the Savonlinna Festival with Kristian Attila.
The 2022/23 season opens with a debut at Sweden’s historic Drottningholm Festival as Leocasta in Vivaldi’s Il Giustino with the Drottningholm Theatre Orchestra under George Petrou, and sees her first appearance at Opernhaus Zürich in a ballet production choreographed by Christian Spück based on the Madrigals of Monteverdi and conducted by Christoph Koncz.
Named as Classical Artist in Residence for the 2022/23 season by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johanna Wallroth joins the orchestra for several concerts across the season including Berg, Sieben frühe Lieder with Daniel Harding, Mozart arias with Martin Fröst and Schubert’s Mass in E‑flat with Andràs Schiff. Elsewhere, she performs Osvaldo Golijov’s Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra with the Gävle Symfoniorkester under Vincenzo Milletari, returns to Mozart Requiem with the Malmӧ Symphony Orchestra under Bertrand de Billy, sings her first Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Vladimir Jurowski and Natalia Ponomarchuk, sings Pergolesi Stabat Mater and Mozart Coronation Mass with the Orchester Wiener Akademie under Martin Haselbӧck at the Musikverein in Vienna and in Luzern, joins the soloist line-up for Schumann Das Paradies und die Peri with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Daniel Harding and undertakes an extensive European Christmas tour with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Håkan Hardenberger.
