Biography

Finnish tenor Johan Krogius (*1998) began his musical studies at an early age of three, playing the cello and singing as a boy soprano soloist, and later studied in Helsinki and Stockholm. In 2021, he won the Timo Mustakallio singing competition and was awarded 1st place at the Helsinki Lied competition in the same year.

During the seasons 2022/23 and 2023/24, he was a member of the International Opera Studio at Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, performing roles such as Leukippos in Strauss' Daphne, Streschnew in Mussorgky’s Khovanshchina, Tamino, Erster Geharnischter and Erster Priester/Die Zauberflöte, as well as Wirt and Haushofmeister bei Faninal/Der Rosenkavalier, Trojaner/Idomeneo, Parpignol/La Bohème, and Borsa/Rigoletto.
In the following season he returned to the Staatsoper as a guest and could be heard as Tybalt in Roméo et Juliette, Erscheinung eines Jünglings/Die Frau ohne Schatten and Erster Gralsritter in Parsifal.

Further highlights on the opera stage include Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni, Jaquino/Fidelio and Pong/Turandot in Helsinki, Juhana in Joonas Kokkonen’s „The Last Temptations“ at Opera Tampere, Tamino/Die Zauberflöte at the Dresden Semperoper, Opera Tampere and at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, where he also sang Don Ottavio and Ismaele/Nabucco in 2024 and Macduff/Macbeth and Juhana/The Last Temptations in 2025.

As of season 2025/26, Johan Krogius is a permanent ensemble member at Opera Zürich, where in his first season he will make his debut both as Walther von der Vogelweide/Tannhäuser, Graf Elemer/Arabella, Le Remendado/Carmen and Spoletta/Tosca and also perform the roles of Wirt and Haushofmeister der Feldmarschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. In addition, he will return as Tamino/Zauberflöte to the Dresden Semperoper and as Streschnew/Khovanshchina to Staatsoper Berlin.

In the concert field, Krogius worked with orchestras such as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (most recently in the summer of 2024 as Kuska in a semi-staged version of Khovanshchina under Esa-Pekka Salonen), Jyväskylä Sinfonia, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, and Turku Philharmonic Orchestra.

In the current season his concert engagements include Bach’s St. John Passion with the Zürcher Sing-Akademie and Orchestra La Scintilla in Zürich and Bern, Beethoven’s Symphony no 9 with Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt in Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder), and Britten‘s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with the Jyväskylä Sinfonia.

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