Finnish soprano Tuuli Takala has been hailed by critics and audiences alike for her rich timbre (Opernwelt Magazine), impeccable phrasing (Opera-Online) and touching interpretations (Olyrix). She was born in Helsinki and studied at the Sibelius Academy in her home city.

Takala made her professional opera debut in 2013 at the Finnish National Opera as the Queen of the Night in W.A. Mozart’s The Magic Flute. This role became one of her parade roles in subsequent years, which she portrayed at London’s  Royal Opera House Covent Garden, at all three Berlin opera houses, Semperoper Dresden, the Volksoper Wien, the Savonlinna Opera Festival and Opéra de Toulon to name a few.

In 2015 she joined the ensemble of the Semperoper Dresden, where she is still a member. During her decade there, she has enjoyed great success in a wide range of roles, including Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Gilda (Rigoletto), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Micaëla (Carmen), Mimì (La Bohème), Violetta Valéry (La Traviata), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Marzelline (Fidelio), both Queen of the Night and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Waldvogel (Siegfried), Olympia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), La Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims), Teresa (Benvenuto Cellini) and Valencienne (Die lustige Witwe).

Recent guest appearances have taken her to Oper Zürich as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni 2022), to Staatsoper Hamburg  as Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor 2024) and Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail 2021), to the Finnish National Opera as Blanche de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites 2024) and Violetta (La Traviata 2021), to the Opéra-Theatre de Metz as Mimì (La Bohème 2023) and Violetta (La Traviata 2020), to the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims 2020), to the Salzburg Festival as the Italian singer (Capriccio 2024) and to the Savonlinna Opera Festival as Liù (Turandot 2025), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte 2023) and Marguerite (Faust 2018).

In addition to opera, Takala is an active and sought-after concert singer and has recently performed as soprano soloist in Mahler’s 2nd Symphony in Helsinki (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen) and Lisbon (Gulbenkian Orchestra/Hannu Lintu), in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Eva Ollikainen, in Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra under Dalia Stasevska, in Mahler’s 8th Symphony (Mater Gloriosa) with the NDR Radiophilharmonie/Ingo Metzmacher, and in the world premiere of Olli Kortekangas’ new song cycle ‘Songs of Meena’ with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänskä. In 2017, Takala performed as a soprano soloist with the Dresdner Staatskapelle under Christian Thielemann in the ZDF Advent concert in Dresden’s Frauenkirche.

Her further concert repertoire includes the Requiem, Exsultate jubilate and Mass in C minor by Mozart, Ein deutsches Requiem by Brahms, Handel’s Messiah, Poulenc’s Gloria, Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle, the Passions, Mass in B minor and Christmas Oratorio by J.S. Bach as well as orchestral songs by Jean Sibelius and Richard Strauss.

As a Lied and art song interpreter she has performed in recitals across Finland, in London, Vienna and Tokyo etc.

Tuuli Takala has excelled in several singing competitions, winning 1st prize at the Timo Mustakallio and Kangasniemi singing competitions in Finland in 2013, prizes at the 2015 Belvedere Competition in Amsterdam as well as the Arnold Schönberg Center Prize at the 2013 Hilde Zadek Competition in Vienna. In 2014, she was named Young Musician of the Year by the Pro Musica Foundation in Finland and she was awarded the Curt Taucher Sponsorship Prize by the Semperoper Dresden in 2018.