Kateryna Kasper

The versatile Ukrainian-German soprano Kateryna Kasper performs as an opera and concert singer and as a recitalist internationally. Her engagements have taken her to the festivals of Edinburgh, Bergen, Savonlinna and Bregenz, the Los Angeles Opera, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Philharmonies of Paris, Cologne and Moscow, and to Tokyo. She has recently triumphed in her debuts as the Empress Arianna in Vivaldi’s Il Giustino at the Berlin State Opera and as Bellezza in Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the National Theatre in Mannheim. In addition, she has sung Orasia in Telemann’s Orpheus with the B’Rock Orchestra under René Jacobs at venues including the Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

In the 2023/24 season she has sung in Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo with the Arion Baroque Orchestra under Francesco Corti in Montreal and with the Basel Chamber Orchestra under René Jacobs in Basel and Vienna. An extensive tour of Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Francesco Corti and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra has taken her throughout Europe and to South Korea.

She has worked with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orquestra Gulbenkian, the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto, the Ensemble Modern, Holland Baroque, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and has been a guest artist at the Magdeburg Telemann Festival, the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe, the Stuttgart Bach Week and the Grafenegg Festival.

Since 2014 she has been an ensemble member of the Frankfurt Opera. There she has most recently sung Angelica (Orlando), Romilda (Xerxes), Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) and made her role debuts as Venus (Ascanio in Alba) and Micaëla (Carmen).

In 2018 she released her debut album O wüßt ich doch den Weg zurück … with Hilko Dumno on Richard Wagner’s historic Steinway in Bayreuth. In 2022 there followed song cycles by Shostakovich and Weinberg with the Trio Vivente, Weber’s Der Freischütz under René Jacobs (OPUS Klassik 2023) and her second Lieder album Ein süßes Deingedenken featuring songs by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, with the pianist Dmitry Ablogin.

Kateryna Kaspar studied in Donetsk in Ukraine with Raisa Kolesnik, in Nuremberg with Edith Wiens and in Frankfurt with Hedwig Fassbender. In 2014 she won the Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition in Helsinki.