Katherine Haataja

A mezzo-soprano whose repertoire has run from Handel and Mozart to Wagner and Strauss, in opera, concert and recording across Europe, Katherine Haataja has combined singing with opera production. She founded the Operosa festival in Montenegro and its summer opera academy, both intended to put emerging singers into professional engagements and to present opera in less conventional formats, and she works in vocal pedagogy and career mentoring. Her album Perle was recorded with the Sofia Symphony Orchestra under Nayden Todorov. She founded Operosa in 2006 and completed a master’s degree in vocal pedagogy through the Voice Study Centre and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.