Biography

The tenor Johan Krogius (*1998) began his musical studies at an early age of three, playing the cello and singing as a boy soprano soloist in the boys' choir of Helsinki Cathedral’s Cantores Minores, with whom he still regularly cooperates as a concert soloist.
He began his professional studies at the Helsinki Conservatory, followed by the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki and the Stockholm University of the Arts. He received important artistic impulses by singers such as Heikki Orama, Tommi Hakala, Tuomas Katajala, Neil Shicoff, John Norris, Andrew Watts and Gregory Lamar.

His concert repertoire includes works of baroque and renaissance music, lied and oratorio.
He works with institutions such as the Jyväskylä Sinfonia, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, and the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2021, Johan Krogius won the Timo Mustakallio singing competition and was awarded 1st place at the Helsinki Lied competition in the same year.

As an opera singer, Johan’s lyrical tenor could be heard in roles such as Jaquino/Fidelio and Pong/Turandot in Helsinki, 1st Man in Joonas Kokkonen’s „The Last Temptations“ at Opera Jyväskylä, Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, and as Tamino/Die Zauberflöte at Opera Tampere as well as, most recently, the Savonlinna Opera Festival.

As of season 2022/23 Johan Krogius is a member of the International Opera Studio at Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, where he was already on stage as Haushofmeister bei Faninal/Der
Rosenkavalier, Trojaner/Idomeneo, Erster Priester and Erster Geharnischter/Die Zauberflöte, Parpignol/La Bohème and Borsa/Rigoletto, among others.

In season 2023/24 at Berlin’s State Opera his roles included Leukippos in Strauss' Daphne, Tamino/Zauberflöte, Ein Wirt and Haushofmeister bei Faninal/Der Rosenkavalier, and Streschnew in Mussorgky’s Khovanshchina.

In summer 2024 Johan returned to the Savonlinna Opera Festival in the roles of Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni and Ismaele/Nabucco.

In the upcoming season 2024/25 his projects include Khovanshchina/Kuska on a concert tour with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Joonas Kokkonen’s opera “The Last Temptations” at Tampere Opera, Mozart’s Requiem at the Berlin Philharmonie, and Beethoven's Symphony no 9 at the Berliner Dom.
At Staatsoper Unter den Linden he will make his role debuts as Tybalt in Roméo et Juliette, Erscheinung eines Jünglings/Die Frau ohne Schatten and Erster Gralsritter in Parsifal, as well as sing Wirt in Der Rosenkavalier.

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Full house for the festive season - Parsifal at the Staatsoper

Tcherniakov's Parsifal is once again on the programme at this year's Staatsoper Unter den Linden festivities - this time 4 BOM artists are taking part, which we are delighted about.
Under the direction of Philippe Jordan, Andreas Schager and Tómas Tómasson will be on stage from April 12th as Parsifal and Klingsor - both of whom already appeared in the premiere cast in 2015 with sensational success. They are joined by Johan Krogius as the First Knight of the Grail and Sonja Herranen as the Flower Maiden. Audiences have already been able to experience them in major roles this season, including Tamino and Agathe.

All performance dates: 12/15/18/20 April 2025

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