Joachim Bäckström

Swedish tenor Joachim Bäckström opened his 2025/26 season with a role debut as Lohengrin at Malmö Opera and this winter will make his house debut at Opéra de Monte-Carlo as Siegmund. He follows this with another house debut at Bayerische Staatsoper as Narraboth in Salome, and a return to the role of Siegmund in the company’s new production of Die Walküre. In April 2026 he debuts with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under conductor Vladimir Jurowski, in a concert performance of Die Walküre.

Joachim Bäckström began the 2024/25 season as Don José in Carmen at both the Royal Swedish Opera and the Göteborg Opera, followed by Peter Grimes, also at the Göteborg Opera and Cavaradossi in Tosca at the Norwegian National Opera.

Joachim Bäckström is regularly engaged as a guest soloist at the Göteborg Opera where he has appeared in roles such as Hoffmann in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Don José, Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana, Michel in Martinů’s Trois fragments de Juliette, Francis in the world premiere of the opera Mythomania by Paula af Malmborg Ward, Grigorij in Boris Godunov, Theseus in Monster in the Maze and Laertes in Thomas’ Hamlet.

Since his house debut as Tamino Joachim has been a guest at the Royal Swedish Opera in several productions. In 2019/20 he made his role debut as Siegmund in Die Walküre, which brought international attention and in 2023/24 Joachim made his role debut there as Parsifal.

At the Finnish National Opera Joachim has sung Siegmund in a new production of Die Walküre and Erik in Der fliegende Holländer. He sang the title role in David Radok’s award-winning Peter Grimes new production at Janáček Theatre in Brno and he has performed Don Carlos at Theater Basel.

As Don José in Carmen Joachim Bäckström has appeared at the Norwegian National Opera, the Finnish National Opera, the Royal Danish Opera, Opera Østfold in Norway, Malmö Opera and at the Wuppertaler Bühnen in Germany. He has sung Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at Le Grand Théâtre de Genève, Royal Danish Opera and the Royal Swedish Opera. 2017. He received great acclaim for his interpretation of Hoffmann in Les contes d’Hoffmann at Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen. Joachim has sung Atis in Joseph Martin Krauss’ Proserpin at Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci and Duca in Rigoletto at NorrlandsOperan in Sweden.

At Malmö Opera Joachim has performed the roles of des Grieux in Massenet’s Manon, Rodolfo in La Bohème and Roméo in Roméo et Juliette, Tamino, Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly, Steva in Jenufa and Don José.

Joachim Bäckström studied at the Royal Danish Opera Academy in Copenhagen and made his debut in January 2010 as Don José at the Royal Danish Opera.

Joachim Bäckström has received scholarships and awards such as Birgit Nilsson, Christina Nilsson, Jussi Björling Society, Oscar Crawford, Odd Fellow and Idella Foundation.