Jonas Degerfeldt is a Swedish tenor and a regular guest at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, where he has performed roles such as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, the Italian Singer in Capriccio, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Fenton in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Don José in Carmen and Leicester in Maria Stuarda. His other roles at the Royal Swedish Opera include Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Lensky in Eugene Onegin, Alfredo in La traviata, Rodolfo in La bohème, Fenton in Falstaff, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, the title role in Werther, Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites and Narraboth in Salome. During the 2012/13 season, he appeared as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus at the Norwegian National Opera.
In the 2024/25 season, Degerfeldt appeared in Carmen, Wozzeck and Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal Swedish Opera. During the 2025/26 season, he performed in Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte and the new production of Madama Butterfly, in which he sang the role of Goro. In autumn 2026, he appears in Andrea Tarrodi’s Vilse and sings the role of Frosch, the prison guard, in Die Fledermaus at the Royal Swedish Opera.
Jonas Degerfeldt has performed at Drottningholm Palace Theatre, including as Ferrando in Così fan tutte (2000 and 2001), Gustav III in the world premiere of Miklós Maros’s Kastrater (2004) and the title role in Mozart’s Idomeneo (2014). He has sung Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at Scottish Opera, Ramiro in La Cenerentola at La Monnaie in Brussels, Sam Polk in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah and Lensky at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Finnish National Opera, and Lensky in Spoleto and at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo. In summer 2002, he sang Achilles in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide at the Glyndebourne Festival. Later that year, he was engaged as a cover for the role at Teatro alla Scala and performed it in concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
As a concert soloist, Degerfeldt performs works such as Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s Passions and Haydn’s The Creation and The Seasons. With the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck, he has performed Mozart’s Requiem, the role of Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Haydn’s The Creation and Franz Schmidt’s Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln. Under the baton of Laurence Renes, he has sung Don Ottavio in concert performances of Don Giovanni with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and appeared in Mozart’s Requiem with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at Stockholm Concert Hall.
Jonas Degerfeldt was born in Skellefteå and studied at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg and the University College of Opera in Stockholm. In spring 2001, he was awarded the Set Svanholm Scholarship.
