About

The Latvian soprano Katrīna Paula FELSBERGA made her operatic debut at the Latvian National Opera in the 2021/22 season with the role of Zerlina in Mozart's “Don Giovanni” and will return there in Donizetti's “L'elisir d'amore” in May 2024. In 2024, Felsberga received the Latvian Great Music Award as the “Young Artist of the Year”, which is the highest state honor in the music industry of Latvia. Katrīna has performed with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, chamber orchestra Sinfonietta Riga and Liepaja Symphony Orchestra.

As an alumna of the Lied Academy of the Heidelberger Frühling festival Katrīna has given recitals at the Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin with Graham Johnson and Malcolm Martineau, aswell as the Heidelberger Frühling Liedfestival, where she participated in an experimental Lied.LAB on Western and Eastern cultures. She has performed in such festivals as Kissinger Sommer and contemporary music festival Arēna.

Katrīna has premiered multiple works by contemporary composers, such as Andris Dzenītis, Artūrs Maskats, Jēkabs Jančevskis and many more. In autumn of 2023 she participated in the 50th anniversary concert of the French contemporary ensemble L'Itinéraire in the IRCAM institute in Paris, where she premiered a work by Oscar Bianchi.

She was a finalist in the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in 2020. Katrīna has also been a participant of the academy of the LIEDBasel festival, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival Vocal Academy and the Lotte Lehmann Akademie for young opera singers.

She studied at the Riga Cathedral choir school where she obtained a diploma in classical singing and choir conducting and holds a bachelor degree from the University of Arts Berlin.

Calendar

Performance at the official residence of the president of Latvia

Order of the Three Stars Award ceremony

Riga Castle, Riga, Latvia

May
Saturday
4
15:00

Vācietis. Ziedonis. Jakovļevs

Concert series PERSONĪGI

Concert Hall "Great Amber", Liepāja, Latvia

May
Sunday
12
15:00

Vācietis. Ziedonis. Jakovļevs

Concert Hall GORS, Rēzekne, Latvia

May
Sunday
19
17:00

L'elisir d'Amore

Gianetta

Role Debut

Latvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia

May
Thursday
23
19:00
May
Friday
24
19:00
May
Saturday
25
19:00
June
Saturday
8
19:00
June
Sunday
16
19:00

Recital with Artūrs Oskars Mitrevics

A song recital with premieres by composing students of HSLU

Villa Senar, Luzerne, Switzerland

June
Saturday
1
17:15

Recital with Artūrs Oskars Mitrevics

A song recital with premieres by composing students of HSLU

Villa Senar, Luzerne, Switzerland

June
Sunday
2
11:15

LiederWerkstatt 1

Kissinger Sommer 2024

Rossini-Saal, Bad Kissingen, Germany

July
Saturday
6
15:00

LiederWerkstatt 2

Kissinger Sommer 2024

Rossini-Saal, Bad Kissingen, Germany

July
Sunday
7
15:00

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2024

Vācietis. Ziedonis. Jakovļevs

Recital of Schubert and Wolf songs

Mazsalacas kultūras centrs

April
Sunday
7

2024

Geliebt-Gehasst / Verzehren-Verstoßen

Bachelor exam with scenes from operas by Menotti, Dove, Monteverdi and von Einem

UNI.T - Theater der UdK Berlin

February
Friday
2
FEBRUARY
Saturday
3

2024

Recital with Malcolm Martineau

Schubert Week 2024

Recital of Schubert and Wolf songs

Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, Germany

January
Friday
26

2023

50th Anniversary concert of Ensemble L“Itinéraire

Premiere of Pozzanghere | Mezzo seccate for soprano, 8 instruments and electronics by Oscar Bianchi

IRCAM Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

November
Friday
17

2023

Nakts dziesmas

Festival of New music ARĒNA

Premiere of Trīs Knuta Skujenieka dzejoļi for voice and soprano by Andris Dzenītis

Riga Latvian Society House, Riga, Latvia

October
Wednesday
25

2023

Don Giovanni

Zerlina

Latvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia

October
Thursday
26

Recordings

Videos

Press

Cover and Feature in Magazine IEVA 2023

Interview by Aiva Kanepone

Review | Recital NAKTS DZIESMAS | Riga Latvian Society House, 2023

"Katrīna Paula Felsberga is brilliant - in George Crumb‘s cycle "Apparition" and Andris Dzenīti's latest work "Three Poems by Knuts Skujenieks" her singing was characterised by a rich range of stylistic transformations, vocal precision, many sincere tones and dramatic accents." (Latvijas Mediji)

Review | 50th Anniversary Concert of Ensemble L'Itinéraire | IRCAM Paris, 2023

“The extraordinary Katrīna Paula Felsberga… fascinated from the very start.” (anaclase.com)

Review | LiederWerkstatt | Kissinger Sommer, 2023

"The ravishing Latvian soprano Katrīna Paula Felsberga's singing in Bianchi's "Canzuncella" turned out to be a showpiece for clever vocal acrobats: a virtuoso performance with new techniques such as flutter tonguing, extensive lip tremolo, long sustained vibratoless tones and small glissandi." (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Review | Sacred Music Concert | The Nationwide Latvian Song and Dance Festival, 2023

“The pure, soaring voice of Katrīna Paula Felsberga made this performance a golden hour for the singer.” (Kultūras Diena)

Review | DON GIOVANNI | Latvian National Opera, 2022

“The very beginning of her career was marked by the charm of her lyric soprano voice and her ability to realize her vocal part in unquestionably solid angles.” (Latvijas Avīze)

Contact

Katrina Paula Felsberga
Berlin