Soprano Katrīna Paula Felsberga will perform two roles at the Latvian National Opera during the 2024/2025 season—Emilia in Georg Friedrich Händel’s opera Flavio, Re di Longobardi and Adina in Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. She made her debut at this opera house in 2023 as Zerlina in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

The singer is equally passionate about vocal chamber music and the Lied repertoire. She has performed a solo recital at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin alongside pianist Malcolm Martineau and will return there in May 2025 with a new program featuring pianist Julius Drake. Katrīna Paula has participated in prestigious festivals, including Heidelberger Frühling, Kissinger Sommer, and the contemporary music festival ARĒNA. Among the highlights of her 2024/2025 season are a solo recital at Rachmaninoff’s Villa Senar in Lucerne with pianist Artūrs Oskars Mitrevics, a performance at the Konzerthaus Berlin with organist Iveta Apkalna, and a solo recital with Malcolm Martineau at Dzintari Concert Hall.

Katrīna Paula actively collaborates with contemporary composers, premiering and bringing new works to life. She has performed and commissioned new works by composers such as Christian Jost, Arturs Maskats, Andris Dzenītis, and Jēkabs Jančevskis and has worked with leading contemporary music ensembles, including Ensemble Modern and Ensemble l’Itinéraire. In the spring of 2025, she premiered Raivis Misjuns’ chamber cantata, dedicated to her and the ensemble Altera Veritas, at the Liepāja Zvaigžņu Festival. Additionally, she performed Oscar Bianchi’s Confessioni at the prestigious Berlin contemporary music festival MaerzMusik alongside trumpeter Marco Blauuw. In August, she will take part in a performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with musicians from the chamber orchestra Sinfonietta Rīga.

Katrīna Paula Felsberga’s artistic achievements have been highly recognized both in Latvia and internationally. In 2025, she and pianist Justine Eckhaut won first prize at the Franz Schubert and Modern Music International Chamber Music Competition, as well as a special award for the best interpretation of a commissioned piece by Annette Schlünz. In 2024, she received a special prize for the best contemporary music interpretation at the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang (Germany’s National Singing Competition). That same year, she was honored with the Latvian Great Music Award in the category Young Artist of the Year 2023, the highest national distinction in Latvian music.

In the summer of 2025, Katrīna Paula will attend the prestigious Verbier Festival in Switzerland, where she will further develop her skills at the Atelier Lyrique vocal academy. She has previously participated in the Liedakademie program at the Heidelberger Frühling festival and the LiedBASEL academy in Switzerland.

Born in Riga, Latvia, Katrīna Paula Felsberga graduated from the Riga Cathedral Choir School with a diploma in academic singing and choral conducting. She later earned her bachelor’s degree from the Berlin University of the Arts. She currently resides in both Berlin and Riga.