Katja Lytting

Swedish by birth and Italian by naturalisation, Katja Lytting studied at home and then with Leone Magiera, graduating with highest honours from the Conservatorio G. B. Martini in Bologna. Her roles include Federica in Luisa Miller, Leonora in La favorite, Maddalena, Amneris and Santuzza in Italian opera, and Brangäne, Fricka and Klytaemnestra in German opera — sung at La Scala, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Royal Danish Opera and in houses across Europe, Asia and the Americas. She began teaching voice at the Conservatorio Vecchi Tonelli in Modena in 2015. First prize in the Luciano Pavarotti voice competition brought her Federica in Luisa Miller in Philadelphia alongside Pavarotti himself, and her La Scala debut came in the title part of Azio Corghi's Blimunda at its world premiere in 1990. She recorded I puritani with Edita Gruberová.