Latvian soprano Katrīna Paula Felsberga performs across opera, Lied, and contemporary music. In 2026, she was chosen to join Beethovenfest Bonn Talent and the Samling Artist Programmes. Recent highlights include her role debut as Nella in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi at the Verbier Festival alongside Bryn Terfel (2025), First Prize and the Special Prize of Marina Rebeka and Prima Classic at the Jāzeps Vītols International Vocal Competition (2025), and First Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition Franz Schubert and Modern Music in Graz with the French pianist Justine Eckhaut, where they also received the Special Prize for the commissioned work by Annette Schlünz (2025).

In the 2025/2026 season Katrīna Paula appears as Emilia in Handel’s Flavio and Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at the Latvian National Opera, where she made her operatic debut in 2022 as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. This season she also makes her role debut as Polissena in Handel’s Radamisto at the Handel Festival Halle.

Katrīna Paula Felsberga is equally at home on the recital stage and collaborates regularly with pianists including Julius Drake, Malcolm Martineau, Graham Johnson, and Agnese Egliņa. In collaboration with Malcolm Martineau, she has given recitals at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin and the Dzintari Concert Hall. Her recital work has also taken her to venues such as the Konzerthaus Berlin and Rachmaninoff’s Villa Senar in Lucerne, as well as to festivals including Heidelberger Frühling and Kissinger Sommer.

Together with pianist Justine Eckhaut, Katrīna Paula develops programs combining classical and contemporary repertoire, including the staged recital project “What the Water Knows”, premiered at Sansusī festival. In the 2025/2026 season they present the first performance of the complete cycle “Dir zu Feier” by Manfred Trojahn at the Liedfestival Würzburg.

Katrīna Paula is also active in contemporary music and has premiered more than thirty works across Europe, including those by Christian Jost, Lisa Streich, Maija Hynninen, Andris Dzenītis, and Jēkabs Jančevskis. She works closely with the composer Oscar Bianchi and has performed his music at IRCAM in Paris and at the MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin, appearing with established contemporary music ensembles such as Ensemble Modern, Zafraan Ensemble and Ensemble L’Itinéraire.

Recent projects include Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with musicians from Sinfonietta Rīga and “Cabinet of Folksongs”, a program of eleven world premieres with Zafraan Ensemble at the Berlin Philharmonie. Her concert work spans repertoire from baroque to contemporary, including Bach’s Johannes-Passion, Mozart’s Davide Penitente with Sinfonietta Rīga, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra.

Katrīna Paula Felsberga is an alumna of the Verbier Festival’s Atelier Lyrique, the Liedakademie of the Heidelberger Frühling Festival, and the LiedBasel Liedakademie. She is a laureate of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin, where she received the prize for the interpretation of a contemporary work (2024), and was named Young Artist of the Year at the Latvian Great Music Awards in 2023.

Born in Riga, Katrīna Paula studied classical singing and choral conducting at the Riga Cathedral Choir School and later at the Berlin University of the Arts. She lives between Berlin and Riga.