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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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Künstler Website

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Management

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Artist Manager

Ingunn Sighvatsdóttir
Artist Manager
ingunn@orlob.net
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Repertoire

Repertoire Concert

Bach, J.S.	B minor mass
	Christmas Oratorio
	Magnificat
	St. John Passion
	St. Matthew Passion
Beethoven	Symphony no. 9
	Mass in C major
	Missa solemnis
Berg	Altenberg-Lieder
	Sieben frühe Lieder
Berlioz	Les nuits d'été
Dvorak	Stabat Mater
Elgar	Dream of Gerontius
Händel	Messiah
Haydn	Nelson-Messe
Heininen	Musta kehtolaulu (UA)
Mahler	Das Lied von der Erde
	Des Knaben Wunderhorn
	Kindertotenlieder
Mozart	Mass in C major
	Requiem
	Vesperae solennes de confessore
Pergolesi	Stabat Mater
Rossini	Petite Messe Solennelle
	Stabat Mater
Schubert	Mass No. 5 in A flat major
Sibelius	Kullervo
	Orchestral Songs
Verdi	Requiem
Wagner	Wesendonck-Lieder

Repertoire Opera

Bartók	Bluebeard's Castle	Judith
Bizet	Carmen	Carmen
		Mercedes
Britten	Albert Herring	Nancy
	Noye's Fludde	Mrs Noye
Cilea	Adriana Lecouvreur	Dangeville
Händel	Giulio Cesare in Egitto	Sesto
Humperdinck	Hansel and Gretel	Hansel
Janacek	The Makropulos Affair	Komorna
		Poklizecka
Joneleit, Jens	Piero - Ende der Nacht (UA)	Mezzo-soprano
Kokkonen	The Last Temptations	2nd woman
Korngold	Die tote Stadt	Lucienne
Mascagni	Cavalleria rusticana	Lola
Mozart	Apollo et Hyacinthus	Zephyrus
	Così fan tutte	Dorabella
	Die Zauberflöte	2. Dame
	Don Giovanni	Zerlina
	Le nozze di Figaro	Marcellina
Mussorgsky	Boris Godunov	Marina Mnischek
Offenbach	Les contes d'Hoffmann	Nicklausse
Orff	De temporum fine comoedia	Sibylle
Puccini	Madama Butterfly	Suzuki
	Suor Angelica	La badessa
		La maestra delle novizie
Reinvere, Jüri	Purge (UA)	Zara
Rossini	Il barbiere di Siviglia	Berta
	La Cenerentola	Angelina
Sallinen	Kullervo	Smith's young wife
Shostakovich	Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District	Sonjetka
Smetana	The Bartered Bride	Ludmila
Strauss, J.	Die Fledermaus	Prinz Orlowsky
Strauss, R.	Der Rosenkavalier	Octavian
Tchaikovsky	Eugene Onegin	Olga
Verdi	La forza del destino	Preziosilla
	La traviata	Flora
	Otello	Emilia
	Rigoletto	Maddalena
Wagner	Die Meistersinger v. Nürnberg	Magdalene
	Die Walküre	Roßweiße
	Götterdämmerung	2. Norn
	Parsifal	2. Knappe
		Blumenmädchen
		Stimme aus der Höhe

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News

Convinces as Carmen in Bonn

Niina Keitel enthused the audience of Theater Bonn as Carmen in Georges Bizet’s eponymous opera classic. In the production by Carlos Wagner and under the musical direction of chief conductor Jacques Lacombe, Keitel sang the part of the femme fatale with a warm mezzo, “a cutting brightness, and an abysmal darkness”.