From the 2024/25 season, Swedish soprano Josefine Mindus is an ensemble  member of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden where she will start her engagement with the roles of Chief Gepopo and Venus in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre. Her second role with the company will be Elsbeth in Offenbach's rarely performed operetta Fantasio. 

 

Josefines 23/24 season included her role debut as Blonde Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Stadttheater Bühnen Bern and her italian debut, singing the role of Amore in Damiano Michieletto’s production of Orfeo ed Euridice at the "Festival dei Due Mondi" in Spoleto. Josefines also returned to her home theatre Komische Oper as a cover for the role of La Mort Das Floss der Medusa directed by Tobias Krazter and conducted by Titus Engel.

 

In September 2023, Josefine sang György Ligeti’s “Mysteries of the Macabre” at the Royal Swedish Opera in celebration of the composers 100th birthday. During autumn she she sang Brahms Requiem in Stockholm, Oslo and in the Berliner Dom, and in December she joined the Nürnberger Symphoniker singing Mendelssohn's “Vom Himmel Hoch”. In April she made her debut at Konzerthaus Berlin singing Bach's solo cantata 199 “Mein Herze Schwimmt im Blut” under the baton of James Gaffigan. She finished the summer season singing Britten's "Les Illuminations" with Skallsjö Sommarorkester. 

 

From 2020 to 2023, Josefine Mindus was a member of the international opera studio of Komische Oper Berlin under intendent Barrie Kosky. There she sang, amongst other roles,  Papagena Die Zauberflöte, Zerlina Don Giovanni, First Wood Nymph Rusalka, Atalanta Xerxes and Euridice L’Orfeo. In the summer of 2022 Josefine made her Swedish debut at Vadstena Castle in the leading role of Bess McNeil in the Nordic premiere of Mazzolis Breaking the Waves.

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Josefine was born outside of Stockholm, Sweden, into a music-loving family. After completing her composition studies at Gotlands Tonsättarskola in 2014, she decided to focus fully on singing and enrolled at Vadstena Folkhögskola where she studied Lied with Monica Thomasson and Magnus Svensson. She graduated from the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover in 2021, where she studied singing with Marek Rzepka and Lied with Jan-Philip Schulze. Important coaches throughout the years have been tenor Erik Årman, John Norris and Caren van Oijen.

 

Josefine Mindus has been awarded several awards and scholarships, the most recent being the prestigious "Jenny Lind"-scholarship from the Royal Swedish academy of music in 2023. Josefine is also a proud holder of the Anders Wall Foundation’s Confidencen Scholarship 2022 and scholarships from Jubelfonden, Karl-Axel Rosenqvists fond (2022) and Anders Sandrews Stiftelse (2020). She has been a scholarship holder by Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Hannover e.V. since 2019. Her studies in Hannover were generously supported by the Förderkreis Hannover and Klaus and Stefanie Blänkner. 

 

In December 2022, Josefine was awarded second prize in the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang which resulted in her concert debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In October 2019 she and her duo partner Emanuel Ratiu received second prize in the Paula Salomon-Lindberg Das Lied competition, in Berlin.

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Josefine Mindus graduated from Gotlands Tonsättarskola in 2014 and has continued composing since. In 2016 Josefine collaborated on an opera for children with baritone Richard Sandblom, which premiered in Vadstena Gamla Teater, Sweden. In 2013, her piece Ingångstrall was sung by Stockholm's Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir in the annual opening of the Swedish parliament. The piece accompanied the entrance of the Swedish Royal Family and the Prime Minister. Since then, the piece has been performed by many choirs in Sweden and had its South Korean debut in July 2021. 

 

Whenever her schedule allows it, Josefine sits by the piano and composes, mostly music for her own instrument. It is her dream to compose more operas in the future. Don’t hesitate to contact Josefine for sheet music.