Latvian soprano Katrīna Paula Felsberga performs across opera, Lied, and contemporary music. Recent highlights include her role debut as Nella in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi at the Verbier Festival alongside Bryn Terfel, and first prize at the International Chamber Music Competition Franz Schubert and Modern Music in Graz, where she also received a special prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned work by Annette Schlünz.

At the Latvian National Opera, Katrīna Paula has appeared as Emilia in Handel’s Flavio, Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

She is equally at home on the recital stage and has performed song programs at such venues as Pierre Boulez Saal and Konzerthaus Berlin. She frequently collaborates with pianists Julius Drake, Malcolm Martineau, Graham Johnson and Agnese Egliņa. Katrīna Paula has performed in festivals including Heidelberger Frühling, Kissinger Sommer, and the contemporary music festival ARĒNA.

Katrīna Paula is also dedicated to contemporary music and regularly collaborates with composers including Christian Jost, Arturs Maskats, Andris Dzenītis, and Jēkabs Jančevskis. She works closely with composer Oscar Bianchi, performing his works at IRCAM in Paris and at the MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin. She has appeared with leading European ensembles for contemporary music such as Ensemble Modern and Ensemble L’Itinéraire.

In the 2025/2026 season, she is performing Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with musicians from Sinfonietta Rīga and taking part in Cabinet of Folksongs, a program of eleven world premieres and Berio’s Fol with Zafraan Ensemble at the Berlin Philharmonie. Other recent highlights include a recital at Rachmaninoff’s Villa Senar in Lucerne and a concert with organist Iveta Apkalna at the Konzerthaus Berlin.

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 also a laureate of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin, where she received the special prize for contemporary music, and was named Young Artist of the Year at the Latvian Great Music Award.

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