Katrīna Paula
Felsberga
Soprano
Katrīna
Paula
Felsberga
Soprano
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.
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Photos by Annemone Taake
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)
Feature in Magazine IR, 2022
“A new voice”