Biography

The Finnish baritone Arttu Kataja studied singing in Helsinki and is a two-time winner of the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg. He has been a permanent member of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin ensemble since 2006, where he has already sung the major Mozart roles in his repertoire, as well as Peter Besenbinder/Hänsel und Gretel, Marcello/La Bohème and Sharpless/Butterfly. In addition to Daniel Barenboim, his partners on the podium in Berlin have included Philippe Jordan, Andris Nelsons, Sir Simon Rattle and Omer Meir Wellber.  

Guest engagements have taken him to the Theater an der Wien (Mr. Slender/Salieri's Falstaff), the Théâtre du Capitole (Sprecher/Zauberflöte, Scherasmin/Oberon, Schaunard/La Bohéme), the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile (Mr. Flint/Billy Budd, Belcore/L'elisir d'amore), the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Figaro, Masetto, Guglielmo), the Strasbourg Festival, the Savonlinna Opera Festival (Leporello/Don Giovanni, Papageno, Morales/Carmen, Marullo/Rigoletto), the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki (Il viaggio a Reims, Le nozze di Figaro, Arabella, Così fan tutte, Andrea Chénier), the Tampere Opera (Belcore, Sharpless, Marcello, Germont) and to Japan, together with Daniel Barenboim and the Berlin Staatsoper. He also appeared in the production of Orlando Paladino under the direction of René Jacobs.

His busy concert schedule includes many national and international appearances. He has repeatedly worked with René Jacobs in concerts and recordings with the Akademie für Alte Musik, the RIAS Kammerchor, the Freiburger Barockorchester, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and the Basel Chamber Orchestra, among others, as well as with Frieder Bernius and the Musikpodium Stuttgart. He has also performed his wide-ranging repertoire with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester (Rinaldo Alessandrini), the Int. Bachakademie Stuttgart (Hans-Christoph Rademann), the Zürcher Sing-Akademie (Florian Helgath), the Dresdner Philharmonie (Michael Sanderling), the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra (Hartmut Haenchen), the NDR Radiophilharmonie and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Andrew Manze), the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (James Gaffigan), the Symphoniker Hamburg (Andris Poga) and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Nicholas Collon).

Recent highlights include the release of his latest CD together with mezzo-soprano Katharina Kammerloher and pianist Eric Schneider with Mahlers‘ songs from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”, the Brahms Requiem at the Rheingau Music Festival, Berlioz’ La Damnation de Faust with the Coro e Orquestra Gulbenkian in Lisbon under Hannu Lintu, Bruckner's Mass no. 1 with the RIAS Chamber Choir at the Philharmonie Berlin, a tour of the Christmas Oratorio through the Netherlands with the Nederlands Kamerkoor, B' Rock and under the direction of Peter Dijkstra, and Leoš Janáček's “The Excursions of Mr Broucek” with the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle. On the opera stage, he made his role debut as Germont in Verdi's Traviata at Tampere Opera in Finland and at his home in Berlin as the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro and Capulet in Roméo et Juliette under Giuseppe Mentuccia.

Arttu Kataja's recordings include, among others:
Winterreise (Alba 2022) and Serious Songs (Alba 2020) with pianist Pauliina Tukiainen, Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Carus, 2019), St Matthew Passion (Harmonia Mundi, 2013) 

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Artist Website

www.arttukataja.com 

Management

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Repertoire

Repertoire Concert

Bach, C.P.E. Magnificat
Bach, J.S. Christmas Oratorio
  St. John Passion
  Cantatas
  Magnificat
  St. Matthew Passion
  Messe h-moll
Beethoven Symphony no. 9
  Missa Solemnis
Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem
Haydn Die Schöpfung
  Die Jahreszeiten
Händel Messiah
Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Mendelssohn Elias
Mozart Requiem
Schostakowitsch Symphony no. 14
Schumann Faust Szenen (Faust, Marianus)
Sibelius Kullervo
 

Repertoire Opera

Beethoven Fidelio Don Fernando
Bernstein Candide Maximilian
Britten Billy Budd Mr. Flint
Donizetti Don Pasquale Malatesta
  L’elisir d’amore Belcore
  Maria Stuarda Cecil
Eötvös Sleepless (UA) Asleik
Haydn L’Isola disabitata Enrico
  Orlando Paladino Licone/Caronte
Massenet Manon Bretigny
Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel Vater
Mozart Così fan tutte Guglielmo
  Die Zauberflöte Papageno
    Sprecher
  Don Giovanni Leporello
  Le nozze di Figaro Figaro
    Il Conte Almaviva
Puccini La Bohème Marcello
    Schaunard
  Madama Butterfly Sharpless
Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia Figaro
  Il viaggio a Reims Don Alvaro
  L’Italiana in Algeri Taddeo
Salieri Falstaff Mr. Slender
Strauss, R. Ariadne auf Naxos Musiklehrer
Wagner Lohengrin Heerufer des Königs
Weber Freischütz Ottokar
  Oberon Scherasmin
Weill Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny Sparbüchsen-Bill

News

A summer full of role debuts!
To our great delight, this year's Savonlinna Opera Festival again features several BOM artists in central roles - all of whom are celebrating exciting role debuts!

Beginning on July 11th, the audience can look forward to a great Russian spectacle when Mussorgsky's powerful opera Boris Godunov is presented at the Olavinlinna Castle! Starring in perhaps one of the most famous leading roles for a bass, Mika Kares will be making his long-awaited debut in the main role of Boris, alongside fellow BOM artists and debutants Tuomas Katajala as Grigori and Arttu Kataja as Tschelkalov. The production by Nicola Raab is conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk.
All performance dates: 11/14/17/19/24 July 2025

Shortly before, on July 4th, Johan Krogius will be making his debut as Macduff in Verdi's Macbeth, staged by Ralf Långbacka and conducted by Lorenzo Passerini.
All performance dates: 04/07/09/12/15 July 2025

Finally, from July 8th, and for the first time ever, the audience can experience Sonja Herranen as Liù when she embodies the role in Pet Halmen's staging of Puccini's Turandot. The production is conducted by Yves Abel.
All Sonja's performance dates: 08/10/18/25 July 2025

In addition, the Finnish "opera landmark" 'The Last Temptations' (J. Kokkonen), which celebrated its premiere earlier this season in Tampere and is a co-production between Tampere Opera and the Savonlinna Opera Festival, will be shown at the Castle during this festival season. Mika Kares and Johan Krogius again reprise the leading roles of Paavo and his son, Juhana. Mikko Kouki's production is conducted by Ville Matvejeff.
All performance dates: 22/26/28/30 July 2025

More information about the productions and casts:
www.operafestival.fi/en/ ... 
From Berlin to London with Janacek's Broucek
Arttu Kataja will perform Janáček's rarely performed opera ‘The Excursions of Mr Broucek’ in Robert Carsen's new production at the Berlin State Opera and in concert at the Barbican Hall in London with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle from March to May.

Information and performance dates:
staatsoper-berlin.de
barbican.org.uk 

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