Tuuli Takala

Biography

Born in Helsinki and studied singing, violin and music education at the Sibelius Academy. She made her professional debut at the Finnish National Opera in 2013 as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte. In 2014 she returned there as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro).

Since 2015, she has been an ensemble member of Semperoper Dresden, appearing in roles such as Gilda (Rigoletto), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Marzelline (Fidelio), Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Waldvogel (Siegfried), Olympia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Valencienne (Die lustige Witwe).

Guest appearances elsewhere have included Gilda (Rigoletto), Marguerite (Faust), Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte) for Savonlinna Opera Festival, Queen of the Night at all three opera houses in Berlin, Volksoper Wien, Essen, Toulon, etc., and Amanda Rossi in the world premiere of Olli Kortekangas’s My Brother’s Keeper at Tampere Opera in Finland 2018.

In the 2019/20 season, Tuuli made her house debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London as Queen of the Night, and she gave her role debuts as Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), and La Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims) at Semperoper Dresden.

In 2020, she made her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre as Contessa di Folleville (Il Viaggio a Reims).

Tuuli has already worked with musicians such as Philippe Auguin, Frédéric Chaslin, Ádám Fischer, Vladimir Jurowski, Susanna Mälkki, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, John Storgårds, Christian Thielemann and Omer Meir Wellber, among others.

Her versatile concert repertoire includes Requiem, Exsultate jubilate and the Mass in c minor by Mozart, Ein Deutsches Requiem by Brahms, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Händel’s Messiah, Poulenc’s Gloria, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, and J.S. Bach’s Passions, the Mass in b minor and the Christmas Oratorio. She is also a passionate singer of lieder and art song and has performed in recitals and concerts across Finland and in London, Vienna and Tokyo among others. In 2017 Takala was featured as soprano soloist in the ZDF Advent Concert at Dresden’s Frauenkirche with Staatskapelle Dresden under the baton of Christian Thielemann.