Biography

Niina Keitel has become one of the most successful Finnish mezzos of her time. After graduating Sibelius-Academy in Helsinki, she started her career at Staatstheater Darmstadt. In Darmstadt she sang a wide repertoire of roles including Hänsel/Hänsel und Gretel and Magdalene/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

In 2010, she joined the ensemble of Nationaltheater Mannheim for one season before joining the ensemble in Finnish National Opera in her native Finland in 2011. In Mannheim she performed such roles as Olga/Eugene Onegin and Lola/Cavalleria Rusticana, and in Helsinki she sang Octavian/Der Rosenkavalier, Carmen/Carmen, Judit/Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, and Marina/Boris Godunov. Since 2014, she has become a freelancer and is a widely sought-after singer of opera, concert and lied alike.

Guest performances have led her to: Opéra national de Paris, Opera Frankfurt, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Daegu International Opera Festival, Luzerner Theater, Theater Heidelberg and the Munich Biennale.  

As a versatile concert singer Ms. Keitel has performed with many symphony orchestras in Finland, Sweden, Germany and France and has worked with conductors, such as Kent Nagano, Philippe Jordan, Dan Ettinger, Leif Segerstam, Mikko Franck and Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

Recent highlights include a concert tour in Japan, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde at the Colmar Les Musicales Festival, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Gothenburg under the baton of Kent Nagano, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and Sallinen’s opera Kullervo each under Hannu Lintu at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, Maddalena/Rigoletto at Royal Danish Opera Kopenhagen and Finnish National Opera Helsinki, as well as the title role of Carmen at Theater Bonn.

Upcoming engagements include Grimgerde/Die Walküre in Bari.

She has also been seen and heard in many world premieres of both orchestral and operatic works. In addition to her career as an opera and concert singer, Niina Keitel is the Artistic Director of the Lemi Music Festival in Finland.

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Der Rosenkavalier/
Oktavian
"Wie Du Warst! Wie Du Bist!"Boris Godunow/
Marina Mnishek
ArieSibelius: Var det en dröm
Op 37 No 4. Sibelius: Se´n har jag ej frågat mera
Op.17 No. 1 (Runeberg)

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