Tuuli Takala

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Tuuli Takala (* 1987 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish classical singer and opera soprano .

Life

Takala was born in 1987 into a musical family in Helsinki, Finland. She began her musical education at the age of five with the violin, which remained her main instrument for almost 15 years. Since she was six, she has also been singing in various choirs, including the renowned Tapiola Choir and the EMO Ensemble. Takala studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. First, she took part in the music education program and studied singing under the direction of the soprano Aulikki Eerola. Then she expanded her vocal training with the soprano Ritva-Liisa Korhonen at the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki and in the opera program of the Sibelius Academy, where she obtained a Master of Music .

Career

Tuuli Takala became known to a wide audience after winning two prestigious national singing competitions in the summer of 2013: the Timo Mustakallio competition and the Kangasniemi singing competition , followed by her triumphant professional debut at the Finnish National Opera in the role of Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute. Tuuli Takala's international stage debut followed two years later, in 2015, when she was seen at the Semperoper Dresden in their new production of WA Mozart's opera Die Hochzeit des Figaro. In the same year she was also a finalist and recipient of two special prizes at the 34th International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Amsterdam.

Takala then performed at many of Europe's leading opera houses, including the Royal Opera House London (Covent Garden), the Berlin State Opera , the Bolshoi Theater Moscow, the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Volksoper Vienna and the Komische Oper Berlin . Tuuli Takala has also been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Semperoper Dresden since the 2015/16 season.

Takala's most notable roles include Queen of the Night ( Die Zauberflöte ), Lucia ( Lucia di Lammermoor ), Gilda ( Rigoletto ), Violetta Valéry ( La Traviata ), Sophie ( Der Rosenkavalier ), Marguerite ( Gounod's Faust), Susanna ( The Wedding of Figaro ), Marzelline ( Fidelio ), La Contessa di Folleville ( The Journey to Reims ) and Olympia ( Hoffmann's stories ).

Tuuli has had a longstanding artistic collaboration with the Savonlinna Opera Festival . After she sang as a student in the Opera Festival Choir (2011-2012), she thrilled the audience there as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte (2014), Barbarina in Die Hochzeit des Figaro (2015 as part of the guest ensemble of the Semperoper Dresden), Zerlina in Don Giovanni (2016), Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto (2017) and as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust (2018). In 2019 she sang there as soprano soloist in WA Mozart's Great Mass in C minor.

Honors

  • 2013 - Special prize of the Arnold Schönberg Center and finalist of the 8th International Hilde Zadek Singing Competition , Vienna, Austria
  • 2013 - winner of the Timo Mustakallio competition
  • 2013 - 1st prize at the Kangasniemi singing competition
  • 2013 - Sibelius Place of Birth Medal (Sibelius Society of Hämeenlinna, Finland)
  • 2014 - Young Artist of the Year 2014 (Pro Musica Foundation, Finland)
  • 2015 - 2 special prizes and finalist at the 34th International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2018 - Named "Singer of the Year" (1st AINO Opera Gala, Finland)
  • 2018 - Laureate of the Curt Taucher Prize (Semperoper Foundation, Dresden, Germany)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in English - Tuuli Takala | soprano (en-US) . In: Tuuli Takala | soprano . 
  2. ↑ https://www.semperoper.de/ensemble/haben/peid/tuuli-takala/5162.html
  3. ↑ Syntymäkotimitali (fi) . In: Hämeenlinnan Sibelius-seura , October 1, 2013. 
  4. ↑ Vuoden oopperaksi valittiin harrastajien tekemä Satu Sammosta - Aino-oopperapalkinnot jaettiin nyt ensimmäistä kertaa (fi-FI) . In: Helsingin Sanomat , January 15, 2018. 
  5. ↑ Klassik heute: Prize of the Semperoper Foundation goes to two singers .
personal data
SURNAME Takala, Tuuli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish classical singer and opera soprano
DATE OF BIRTH 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki