Joel Annmo

Ensemble: (Current) Royal Opera House Stockholm

Freelancer: Bayerische Staatsoper, Danish National Opera, Malmö Opera, Landestheater Coburg

Swedish tenor Joel Annmo is a current ensemble member of the Royal Opera House in Stockholm, where he has appeared in a wide range of leading roles including Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande), Alfredo (La Traviata), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), and Candide (Candide). As a guest artist, Mr. Annmo has performed with Bayerische Staatsoper, Danish National Opera, and Malmö Opera, and held principal roles at Landestheater Coburg, Theater Augsburg, and Stadttheater Bremerhaven.

Mr. Annmo began his musical training as a violinist before studying voice at the Falun Music Conservatory. He later completed a bachelor’s degree at the University College of Opera in Stockholm and continued his development under Douglas Yates at Vocal Arts in Nürnberg, with whom he continues to study.

In recent seasons, he has returned to the Royal Opera House Stockholm in leading roles including Alfredo, Rinuccio, and Belmonte, and made his Bayerische Staatsoper debut in La Traviata and Lohengrin. He also appeared as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) at Malmö Opera and Tamino at the Opernfestspiele am Saarpolygon. Mr. Annmo has been featured in several world premieres, including Book of Life (Sandström), Dracula (Borisova-Ollas), Brothers (Bjarnason), Tristessa (Bohlin), and Dorian Gray (Fister).

Between 2007 and 2015, Mr. Annmo performed with companies across Sweden and Germany, including roles such as Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Ernesto (Don Pasquale), and Lenskij (Eugene Onegin). He made his debut at the Drottningholm Palace Theatre at age 19 and continued to build a versatile lyric tenor repertoire encompassing Mozart, Donizetti, Rossini, and Tchaikovsky.

In addition to his operatic work, Mr. Annmo appears regularly in concert, with repertoire including Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Schubert’s Mass in E-flat Major, and works by Bach, Mozart, Rossini, and Puccini. He has received several honours, including the Luciano Pavarotti Best Male Voice Award (2014), the Birgit Nilsson Scholarship (2019), and Second Prize in the Gösta Winbergh Award (2007), as well as support from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee (2023).