Swedish baritone Joa Helgesson studied acting at the Shanghai Theatre Academy in China, Chamber Music and Literature Science at Mälarden University in Sweden and graduated as an opera singer at the University College of Stockholm in 2008.

He subsequently joined the National Opera Studio in London and the International Opera Studio at Opernhaus Zürich. His first fixed en- gagement in Germany followed at the Landes- theater Schleswig-Holstein, where he sang Onegin, Figaro (Barbiere), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Sharpless, Demetrius, Falke, Shau- nard and Sparbüchsen-Bill and the baritone solo in Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem together with the symphony orchestra of Schleswig Holstein.

As a freelance singer, Joa Helgesson has visited renowned stages like the Beijing Modern Music Festival in China, Tonhalle Zürich, Gare du Nord Basel, Berliner Philharmonie, Kammeroperas in Konstanz and Schloss Rheinsberg, the Gothen- burg Opera, the Drottningholm Theatre, Berwaldhallen, the Royal Opera and the Concert

Hall of Stockholm, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra in Sweden, Garsington Festival in the U.K., Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Oslo Ultima Festival at the Norske Opera in Oslo, Operosa Festival in Montenegro and the Alandica in Mariehamn, Finland. His curiosity and flexibility as a singer and actor has gained him an extensive repertoire in opera as well as on the concert platform.

Further notable interpretations are his Billy Budd in the live radio broadcast from the Gothenburg Opera, stepping in for indisposed Peter Mattei, the critically acclaimed title role of Joel at the opening of the Alandica, the Samuraj in the world premiere of Osada’s Four Night’s of Dream and Alfio (Cavalleria Rusticana) at the revival of the Ystadopera in Sweden.

2017/18 Joa Helgesson sang the title role of the critically acclaimed Phantom of the Opera at the Gothenburg Opera in Sweden. In 2018/19 he returns to Gothenburg to sing Frollo in the Huncback of Notre Dame.

Also keep an eye out for Joa Helgesson's fakir-opera performances.