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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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 | |
Rückert-Lieder | |
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 |
Kuusisto,Jaakko | Jää | Lydia Manström |
Mascagni | Cavalleria rusticana | Santuzza |
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 | Fricka | |
Waltraute | ||
Rossweiße | ||
Grimgerde | ||
Götterdämmerung | 2. Norn | |
Parsifal | 2. Knappe | |
Blumenmädchen | ||
Stimme aus der Höhe | ||
Tristan und Isolde | Brangäne |
News

Brangäne debut at Theater Nordhausen
An exciting start to the year for Niina Keitel. On January 29, 2022 she will make her debut as Brangäne in the new production of Tristan und Isolde at Theater Nordhausen, an important step to the big Wagner roles of her fach.The musical direction is held by Michael Helmrath.
Further performance dates: 13./19.2., 26.3. and 7.5.
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Press
Der Meister und Margarita / Oper Köln / 08.05.22 / fabiuskulturschockblog
"Niina Keitel - tatsächlich die derzeit einzige rollenerfahrene Sängerin weltweit! - begeisterte mit dunkler konzentrierter Mezzo-Glut und präzisem, differenzierten Vortrag und ausgezeichneter Diktion."
Der Meister und Margarita / Oper Köln / 15.04.22 / Das Opernmagazin
"Keitel war kurzfristig eingesprungen und sang die komplexe Partie von der Seite vom Blatt souverän."
Tristan und Isolde / Theater Nordhausen / 08.02.22 / deropernfreund.de
"Niina Keitel verkörpert eine anrührende Brangäne. Ihre Warnrufe vor dem anbrechenden Tag, die aus dem Nichts zu kommen scheinen, gehören zu den Höhepunkten des zweiten Aufzugs."
Kullervo / Savonlinna Opera Festival / 10.07.17 / bachtrack.com
"cherry-dark mezzo, seductive and sensual"