Latvian soprano Katrīna Paula Felsberga performs across opera, Lied, and contemporary music.

In the 2026/27 season, Katrīna Paula Felsberga sings Polissena in Handel’s Radamisto at Theater an der Wien and at the National Forum of Music in Wrocław, as well as Freia in Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Emilia in Handel’s Flavio at Staatstheater Meiningen. Concert engagements include the world premiere of Ilona Breģe’s Gloria with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with Sinfonietta Rīga and the Latvian Radio Choir.

Recent operatic engagements include Musetta in Puccini’s La bohème, Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Emilia in Handel’s Flavio, and Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Latvian National Opera and Nella in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi at the Verbier Festival Atelier Lyrique alongside Bryn Terfel.

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. Her recital work has taken her to venues including the Pierre Boulez Saal and Konzerthaus in Berlin and Rachmaninoff’s Villa Senar in Lucerne, as well as festivals such as Heidelberger Frühling and Kissinger Sommer.

Together with her Lied duo partner, pianist Justine Eckhaut, Katrīna Paula develops programmes combining classical and contemporary repertoire. Their projects include the staged recital What the Water Knows, premiered at Sansusī Festival, and their new programme Pillow Talk, which is performed at Liedstadt Festival in Hamburg, the Ola Foundation in Riga, and Berlied Festival Berlin. In 2025, the duo was awarded First Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition Franz Schubert and Modern Music in Graz, where they also received the Special Prize for the commissioned work by Annette Schlünz.

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 contemporary music ensembles such as Ensemble Modern and Ensemble L’Itinéraire.

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

Katrīna Paula Felsberga is a prizewinner of several international competitions. In 2025, she received First Prize and the Special Prize of Marina Rebeka and Prima Classic at the Jāzeps Vītols International Vocal Competition. She is also 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.

Katrīna Paula Felsberga is an alumna of the Verbier Festival Atelier Lyrique, the Liedakademie of the Heidelberger Frühling Festival, and LiedBasel. She is a Samling Artist and a member of the Beethovenfest Bonn Talent Programme.

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, and in her free time can often be found exploring the Latvian forests and gathering mushrooms.