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 and Erster Gralsritter in Parsifal, as well as sing Wirt in Der Rosenkavalier.


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Management

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News

Two Finnish tenors - Two role debuts
With the festival season still in full swing, another exciting project is coming up, featuring several BOM artists! As part of this year's Helsinki Festival, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra led by Esa-Pekka Salonen will perform a special semi-staged version of Mussorgsky's opera Khovanshchina (director: Gerard McBurney).

Debuting the tenor roles of Andrey Khovansky and Kuzka are Tuomas Katajala and Johan Krogius, respectively. The cast is headed by Mika Kares as Ivan Khovansky, a role he embodied for the first time at Berlin's State Opera back in June.

Following the two performances at Helsinki's Music Centre on August 20th and 21st, the production moves to Stockholm where the Swedish audience has the chance to experience it for a single night on August 23rd 2024 during the Baltic Sea Festival.

For more information about the production:
www.helsinkifestival.fi/ ... 
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