Miah Persson grew up in
Hudiksvall, singing in choirs and taking part in amateur drama productions. After studying social sciences and law at university in Stockholm, she undertook musical studies at the Kulturama, Operastudio 67 and, from 1996, at the
University College of Opera also in
Stockholm. She made her operatic debut as Susanna in
Le nozze di Figaro at
Confidencen in 1998. As a member of the
Royal Swedish Opera her roles have included Barbarina and Susanna in
Le nozze di Figaro, Pamina in
The Magic Flute (Mozart), Sandrina in
La finta giardiniera, Dorinda in
Orlando (Handel), Tebaldo in
Don Carlos (Verdi), Frasquita in
Carmen (Bizet), Gabrielle in
La Vie parisienne (Offenbach), Gretel in
Hansel und Gretel (Humperdinck) and Sophie in
Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss). In addition to these roles, at other opera houses Miah Persson has sung Brigida in Cimarosa's
Gli sposi per accidenti (Studio Lirico, Cortina, Italy), Hero in Berlioz's
Béatrice et Bénédict (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris and Baden-Baden), Costanza in Scarlatti's
La Griselda (Staatsoper, Berlin), Nannetta in Verdi’s
Falstaff (Aix-en-Provence), and Governess in Britten's
The Turn of the Screw (Frankfurt). In 2018 Persson sang her first Countess Madeleine in
Capriccio at Garsington, and followed this in June 2021 with her first Marschallin in
Rosenkavalier, one critic commending her "moments of self-reflection" and "burnished quality of old gold in the lyrical passages, with plenty of stamina for the taxing high lines of the Act 3 trio" and felt that "she recalls the great Viennese Marschallins of the 1950s, most of them, like her, graduates from Sophie. ==Personal life==