Tuomas Katajala

Representation: Sweden / Norway / Denmark / USA

Finnish tenor Tuomas Katajala performs internationally in opera, concert and oratorio, with a repertoire extending from Baroque music to contemporary works. Recent roles include Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in March 2026. In May 2027, he is engaged as Tito in La clemenza di Tito at the Opéra de Limoges.

His 2025 work included Grigori in Boris Godunov at Savonlinna, Pollux in Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and Froh in Das Rheingold in Cologne. In 2024, he made his role debut as Lohengrin at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and sang Andrey Khovansky in concert performances of Khovanshchina in Helsinki and Stockholm.

Wagner and Weber are central to Mr. Katajala’s stage repertoire. He has sung Erik in Der fliegende Holländer in Beijing and in semi-staged performances in Luxembourg and Brussels under Tarmo Peltokoski. Max in Der Freischütz has taken him to Theater an der Wien, Brussels, Aix-en-Provence and Leipzig. As Loge in Das Rheingold, he appeared at Finnish National Opera under Esa-Pekka Salonen and in Singapore with the Orchestra of the Music Makers under Joshua Kangming Tan. His Mozart work includes Tamino at Covent Garden and Idomeneo at the Israeli Opera, followed by concert performances of Idomeneo in Amsterdam and Helsinki in 2024.

Mr. Katajala’s concert and oratorio repertoire comprises more than one hundred works. Engagements for 2027 include Edrisi in Szymanowski’s King Roger with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, following Verdi’s Requiem in Malmö and Zender’s version of Schubert’s Winterreise in Joensuu, scheduled for autumn 2026.

Mr. Katajala has performed Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde at Teatro alla Scala and Britten’s Serenade with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and sung Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Wiener Konzerthaus under Klaus Mäkelä. In Milan, he sang Parsifal in concert with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Oedipus Rex at the Auditorium di Milano and Mahler’s Eighth Symphony in the cathedral. Further concert engagements have taken him to Toulouse and Lisbon, including Gulbenkian Música, and to the Concertgebouw, Royal Albert Hall, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Avery Fisher Hall.

His collaborators include conductors Kent Nagano, Pablo Heras-Casado and Susanna Mälkki, and directors Romeo Castellucci, Peter Sellars and Kirill Serebrennikov.

Mr. Katajala trained in Helsinki and began his career as a member of the Finnish National Opera ensemble.