Tuomas Katajala

Ensemble: (Former) Finnish National Opera

Freelancer: Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Staatsoper Hamburg, Komische Oper Berlin, Opera Leipzig, Bolshoi Theatre, Seattle Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Savonlinna Opera Festival

Representation: Scandinavia & USA

Finnish tenor Tuomas Katajala has established himself as one of the most versatile Scandinavian voices of his generation, active across opera, concert, and oratorio repertoire from the baroque to the contemporary. He is regularly engaged by leading international houses and festivals, among them Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Staatsoper Hamburg, Komische Oper Berlin, Opera Leipzig, the Bolshoi Theatre, Seattle Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, and the Savonlinna Opera Festival.

Mr. Katajala trained in Helsinki and began his career as a member of the ensemble at the Finnish National Opera. His early studies laid the foundation for a wide-ranging career that balances opera and concert engagements, and his repertoire now spans more than one hundred works in the concert and oratorio field.

In recent seasons, Mr. Katajala made several important role debuts: Lohengrin at the Savonlinna Opera Festival (2024), Erik in Der fliegende Holländer at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Max in Der Freischütz at Theater an der Wien, in Brussels and Aix-en-Provence, and Idomeneo in a new production at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv. He also appeared as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, as Loge (Das Rheingold) under Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Finnish National Opera and at the Esplanade in Singapore, and as Andrey Khovansky (Khovanshchina) in Helsinki and Stockholm. In 2025, he returned to the Savonlinna Opera Festival as Grigori in Boris Godunov.

Highlights of his concert work include Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde at Teatro alla Scala, the title role of Parsifal with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Oedipus Rex at the Auditorium di Milano, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at Milano Cathedral, Britten’s Serenade with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Wiener Konzerthaus with Klaus Mäkelä. Other recent appearances have included performances with the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra in Lisbon, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and Gulbenkian Música.

Mr. Katajala has collaborated with conductors including Esa-Pekka Salonen, Klaus Mäkelä, Kent Nagano, Pablo Heras-Casado, Matthias Pintscher, Mikko Franck, Sakari Oramo, and Susanna Mälkki, and with directors such as Romeo Castellucci, Kasper Holten, Peter Sellars, Kirill Serebrennikov, and Harry Kupfer. His concert work has brought him to venues such as Wiener Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Royal Albert Hall London, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome, Salle Pleyel Paris, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, and Avery Fisher Hall New York.