From the 2024/25 season, Swedish soprano Josefine Mindus is a member of the ensemble at Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where she made her company debut as Chief Gepopo and Venus in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre. Her performance was met with enthusiastic reviews, praised for its vocal virtuosity and fearless theatricality. She went on to sing Frasquita in Carmen and Elsbeth in Offenbach’s rarely staged operetta Fantasio.

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In the summer of 2025, Josefine makes her debut at Drottningholm Slottsteater in Stockholm, in Telemann’s Orpheus, conducted by Francesco Corti. She will begin her 2025/26 season taking on the role of Änchen in Der Freischütz and further debut the title role in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden, and Die Nachtigall in Braunfels’ Die Vögel. Other highlights of the 2025/26 season include a return to Konzerthaus Berlin, singing La Fabbrica Abbandonata with Ensemble United and Vladimir Jurowski and her return to Komische Oper where she will perform Brett Dean’s Ophelia Mad-scene, And once I played Ophelia, conducted by Tito Muñoz.

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Josefine’s 2023/24 season included her role debut as Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Stadttheater Bühnen Bern, and her Italian debut as Amore in Orfeo ed Euridice, directed by Damiano Michieletto, at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. She also returned to her home theatre Komische Oper Berlin to cover the role of La Mort in Das Floss der Medusa, in a production by Tobias Kratzer, conducted by Titus Engel.

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In September 2023, Josefine sang Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre at the Royal Swedish Opera to celebrate the composer’s 100th birthday. That same autumn, she performed Brahms’ Requiem in Stockholm, Oslo, and 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 with Bach’s solo cantata BWV 199, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, conducted by James Gaffigan, and finished the summer singing Britten’s Les Illuminations with the Skallsjö Sommarorkester.

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From 2020 to 2023, Josefine was a member of the International Opera Studio at Komische Oper Berlin, under intendant Barrie Kosky. During these seasons she performed a wide range of repertoire including Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), First Wood Nymph (Rusalka), Atalanta (Xerxes), and Euridice (L’Orfeo). In the summer of 2022 she made her Swedish stage debut at Vadstena Castle as Bess McNeil in the Nordic premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves.

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Josefine was born outside of Stockholm, Sweden, in a music-loving family. After completing her composition studies at Gotlands Tonsättarskola in 2014, she decided to fully focus on singing, beginning 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, studying with Marek Rzepka and Jan-Philip Schulze, and has been guided over the years by mentors such as Erik Årman, John Norris and Caren van Oijen.

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She has received several awards and scholarships, including the Jenny Lind Scholarship (2023) from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, the Confidencen Scholarship from the Anders Wall Foundation (2022), and support from Jubelfonden, Karl-Axel Rosenqvists fond (2022), and Anders Sandrews Stiftelse (2020). Since 2019 she has also been a scholarship holder with Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Hannover e.V., and her studies in Hannover were generously supported by Förderkreis Hannover and Klaus and Stefanie Blänkner.

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In December 2022, Josefine was awarded second prize in the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang, which led to her concert debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin. Together with pianist Emanuel Ratiu, she also received second prize at the Paula Salomon-Lindberg Das Lied Competition in Berlin (2019).

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Josefine graduated from Gotlands Tonsättarskola in 2014 and has continued composing ever since. In 2016, she co-created a children’s opera together with baritone Richard Sandblom, which premiered at Vadstena Gamla Teater. Her choral work Ingångstrall was performed by Stockholm's Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir at the annual opening of the Swedish parliament in 2013, accompanying the entrance of the Swedish Royal Family and the Prime Minister. The piece has since been performed by many choirs in Sweden and made its South Korean debut in 2021.

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Whenever her schedule allows it, Josefine sits by the piano and composes – mostly for her own voice. It is her dream to write more operas in the future. Don’t hesitate to get in touch for sheet music.