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ARTTU KATAJA
baritone


A prize winner of several competitions including the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg, Finnish baritone Arttu Kataja graduated from Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and became a member of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin in 2006 performing such parts as Count/Le nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo/Così fan tutte, Vater/Hänsel und Gretel, Papageno/Die Zauberflöte, Marcello/La Bohéme, Sharpless/Madama Butterfly, Figaro/Barbiere di Siviglia to name but a few.
Guest engagements have led him to Theater an der Wien (Mr. Slender/Salieri’s Falstaff), Théâtre du Capitole (Sprecher/Zauberflöte, Scherasmin/Oberon, Schaunard/La Bohéme), Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile (Mr. Flint/Billy Budd, Belcore/L’elisir d’amore), Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Figaro, Masetto, Guglielmo), the Strassburg 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 Cheniér), Tampere Opera (Belcore, Sharpless, Marcello), and Japan, together with Daniel Barenboim and the Berliner Staatsoper. He also appeared in the production of "Orlando Paladino" under René Jacobs.
Mr. Kataja is active as a recitalist and concert singer. Recent concert highlights include J.S. Bach's Johannes Passion with Concertgebouworkest/Andrew Manze, Händel's Messiah with Züricher Singakademie/Florian Helgath and Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem with Kammerchor Stuttgart/Frieder Bernius.
Arttu Kataja’s recordings include lied recitals 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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Calendar
2023
21.05. Symphoniker Hamburg
A. Schnittke: Seid nüchtern und wachet
Elbphilharmonie
Conductor: Andris Poga
Europa Chor Akademie Görlitz
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, mezzos
Andrew Watts, countertenor
Norbert Ernst, tenor
Arttu Kataja, bass
15.06. Staatsoper Berlin
17.06. P. Eötvös: Sleepless
25.06. Conductor: Peter Eötvös
29.06. Stage director: Kornél Mundruczó
Role: Asleik
03.07. Savonlinna opera festival
07.07. C. Gounod: Romeo & Juliette
14.07. Conductor: Yves Abel
17.07. Stage Director: Amy Lane
Role: Capulet
10.08. Urkuyö ja aaria
Recital (Schubert, Vaughan Williams etc.)
Arttu Kataja, baritone
Pauliina Tukiainen, piano
31.08. Urkuyö ja aaria
02.09. B. Britten: Curlew River
Conductor: Antti Tikkanen
Stage director: Aleksi Barrière
Tuomas Katajala, tenori (Madwoman)
Arttu Kataja, baritoni (Ferryman)
Aarne Pelkonen, baritoni (Traveller)
Matti Turunen, basso (Abbot)
Repertoire
Concert
Bach, C.P.E. Magnificat
Bach, J.S. Weihnachtsoratorium
Johannes-Passion
Matthäus-Passion
Magnificat
Messe h-moll
Kantaten
Beethoven 9. Sinfonie
Missa Solemnis
Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem
Haydn Die Schöpfung
Die Jahreszeiten
Händel Messiah
Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Mendelssohn Elias
Mozart Requiem
Schnittke Seid nüchtern und wachet
Schostakowitsch 14. Sinfonie
Schumann Faust Szenen (Faust, Marianus)
Sibelius Kullervo
Repertoire
Opera
Beethoven Don Fernando (Fidelio)
Bernstein Maximilian (Candide)
Britten Mr. Flint (Billy Budd)
Donizetti Belcore (L’elisir d’amore)
Malatesta (Don Pasquale)
Cecil (Maria Stuarda)
Eötvös Asleik (Sleepless)
Haydn Enrico (L’Isola disabitata)
Licone/Caronte (Orlando Paladino)
Humperdinck Vater (Hänsel und Gretel)
Massenet Bretigny (Manon)
Mozart Il Conte Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro)
Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro)
Guglielmo (Così fan tutte)
Leporello (Don Giovanni)
Papageno (Die Zauberflöte)
Sprecher (Die Zauberflöte)
Puccini Marcello (La Bohème)
Schaunard (La Bohème)
Sharpless (Madama Butterfly)
Sonora (La fanciulla del West)
Rossini Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Don Alvaro (Il viaggio a Reims)
Taddeo (L’Italiana in Algeri)
Salieri Mr. Slender (Falstaff)
Strauss, R. Musiklehrer (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Wagner Heerrufer des Königs (Lohengrin)
Weber Ottokar (Freischütz)
Weill Sparbüchsen-Bill (Mahagonny)