About

The Latvian soprano Katrīna Paula FELSBERGA made her debut as Adina in Donizetti‘s L'elisir d'amore at the Latvian National Opera at the start of the 2024/25 season. She has previously performed at the Latvian National Opera in roles such as Zerlina in Mozart‘s Don Giovanni and Giannetta in Donizetti‘s L'elisir d'amore. In 2024, she was honored with the Latvian Great Music Award as "Young Artist of the Year," the highest state accolade in Latvia‘s music industry. Katrīna has also performed with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonietta Riga, and the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra.

Felsberga is equally dedicated to the Lied and chamber music genres. As an alumna of the Lied Academy at the Heidelberger Frühling festival, led by Thomas Hampson, she has given recitals at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin with Graham Johnson and Malcolm Martineau, as well as at the Heidelberger Frühling Liedfestival, where she participated in an experimental Lied.LAB focusing on Western and Eastern cultural intersections. Her 2024 highlights include a solo recital at Rachmaninoff‘s Villa Senar in Lucerne, a performance at the Konzerthaus Berlin with organist Iveta Apkalna, and participation in the Kissinger Sommer festival‘s LiederWerkstatt.

A passionate advocate for contemporary music, Felsberga has premiered and commissioned works by composers such as Oscar Bianchi, Christian Jost, and Jēkabs Jančevskis, among others. She recently performed with Ensemble Modern in Stuttgart and with Ensemble l'Itinéraire at the IRCAM in Paris.

In 2020, she was a finalist in the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang. Katrīna has also participated in the academy of the LIEDBasel festival, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival Vocal Academy, and the Lotte Lehmann Akademie for young opera singers. Born in Riga, Latvia, she studied at the Riga Cathedral Choir School, where she earned a diploma in classical singing and choir conducting, and holds a bachelor‘s degree from the University of the Arts Berlin.

Calendar

Recital with Malcolm Martineau

Song recital with pianist Malcolm Martineau

Dzintari Concert Hall, Jūrmala, Latvia

Riga Autumn Chamber Music Festival 2024

October
Thursday
17
19:00

Upei pāri. Ziedonis un Vācietis

Latvian chamber music concert

Dzintari Concert Hall, Jūrmala, Latvia

November
Sunday
17
14:00

106th anniversary official concert of the proclamation of the Republic of Latvia

Latvian National Theatre, Rīga, Latvia

November
Monday
18
18:00

Recital with ensemble "Altera Veritas"

Latvian contemporary music with ensemble "Altera Veritas"

Concert Hall "Great Amber", Liepāja, Latvia

2025

March
Friday
21
19:30

Song recital with Julius Drake - Lied und Lyrik: Hölderlin Settings by Eisler, Ullmann, Britten, and others

Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, Germany

2025

May
Tuesday
27
19:30

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