About


The Danish soprano, Katinka Bohse Meyer, is educated from Opernschule der HMDK Stuttgart and the Danish National Academy of Music with Prof. Thilo Dahlmann and Henriette Bonde-Hansen. 

Her voice has been described as dark and lyrical with a warm timbre, which she has demonstrated in numerous stage roles in Denmark, Germany and Japan, such as La Contessa di Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Giulietta (Giulietta e Romeo) and Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus).

In 2025 Katinka was rewarded The-Lars-Waage-Prize for her role as Giulietta in Nicola Vaccaj’s Giulietta e Romeo at Den Fynske Opera with the words from artistic director, Eva-Maria Melbye: “Her ability to convey emotional intensity and complexity both vocally and scenically makes her a promising talent on the current Danish opera scene and bodes well for the future”.

Katinka’s operatic repertoire ranges from Mozart to contemprorary classical music with a special flair for the full lyrical soprano repertoire from composers like Puccini, Bizet and Britten. She is also an experienced concert singer of both Lied and oratorio with a focus on songs by Richard Strauss, Arnold Schönberg, Peter Heise, Clara Schumann and Amy Beach.

Together with tenor, Gustav Wenzel Most, she co-founded the opera company called Bar’Opera dedicated to broadening the reach of opera to new audiences - for instance with the chamber opera The Pet Shop at Studenterhus Odense 2022 and the opera-for-beginners concert lecture Det’ Bar’Opera! at the same place 2025.







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Roles on stage

Dornröschen (title role)
“Dornröschen” -  Joachim Raff
Recording and performance
Württembergischer Philharmonie Reutlingen
Bachchor Stuttgart
Conductor: Jörg Hannes-Hahn
Lutherkirche Stuttgart-Bad Canstatt
June 2026


La Contessa di Almaviva
“Le Nozze di Figaro” -  W.A. Mozart
Kulturzentrum Mon Ami
Lyric Opera Studio Weimar
Director: Damon Nestor Ploumis
Conductor: Olaf Storbeck
July 2025


Giulietta
“Giulietta e Romeo” -  Nicola Vaccaj
Den Fynske Opera
Director: Eva-Maria Melbye
Conductor: Virginia Guastella
March 2025


Rosalinde
“Die Fledermaus” -  Johann Strauss
Wilhelma Theater Stuttgart
Director: Victoria Stevens
Conductor: Ulrich Kern
HMDK Salonorchester
February 2024
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Noura Juku Opera Foundation, Japan
Director: Akiko Nakajima
Conductor: Niels Muus
Noura Juku Ensemble and Choir
August 2024



The Companion of Death
VR Opera “MORTALITIES”
CPH Opera Festival + Musikhuset Århus + Den Fynske Opera
Director and creator: Rebekka Meyer
Composer: SØS Gunver Ryberg
MANND, Immersive XR Studio
2023-2025


Dronning Gertrud
“Prinsessen på Ærten” -  August Enna
Den Fynske Opera + SDMK
Director: Ida Kiberg
June-August 2023


Ensemble soloist
Græsset er Grønnere” - Oh Land + Adiz Zukanovic +
Ida Kiberg
Den Fynske Opera
Director: Ida Kiberg
Conductor: Andreas Vetö
Danmark Underholdningsorkester
March-April 2023



Louise Finch
“Murder on the Titanic” - Matias Vestergård
SDMK
Director: Karin Sjöholm
June 2022



Trixy

“The Pet Shop” -  Vittorio Rieti
Bar’Opera
Studenterhus Odense
Director: Jakob Beck
May 2022



Belinda
“Dido & Aeneas” -  Henry Purcell
Singin’Body
Glyptoteket
Director: Kirsten Schultz
Conductor: Rose Munk Heiberg
Febuary 2019



Prizes and grants

  • CRESCENDO Talent Program from Art Music Denmark and Nordic Artists Management 2025-2026

  • The-Lars-Waage-Prize (Den Fynske Opera) 2025

  • Danish Acting Society’s Honorary Grant 2022

  • Axel Borup Jørgen’s Talent Prize 2019                  

  • Køge Kulturfond’s Honorary Grant 2018



Concert highlights


  • “Det Bar’Opera!”,                                   Studenterhus Odense 2025

  • Opera på Åen,  Opera i Baghaven, Solo recital, Christmas Concert Den Fynske Opera 2022-2025

  • “King Arthur” Henry Purcell,  concertante,                                  HMDK Barockorchester,                    HMDK Stuttgart 2024

  •  Operasalonen,              Absalonskirken 2024

  •  Soprano soloist G.B. Pergolesi “Stabat Mater”, Sankt Hans Kirke  Odense 2022

  •  Soprano soloist John Rutter “Requiem”,                                      Sankt Hans Kirke Odense 2022

  •  Engel in Heinrich Schütz "Weihnachts-Historie",                  Sankt Hans Kirke Odense 2021

  •  Soprano soloist G.F. Händel “Best  of Messiah”,                              Thomas Kingo Kirke Odense 2021

  •  Soprano soloist Heinrich Schütz “Musikalische Exequien”,              Sankt Hans Kirke Odense 2020






Together with tenor, Gustav Wenzel Most, Katinka co-founded the opera company called Bar’Opera.
With the mission of broadening the reach of opera to new audiences Bar’Opera has togeether with Studenterhus Odense made performances about opera for young people. With a beer included in the ticket, they have conveyed opera with a “down-to-earth-vibe” first with the 50 minute chamber opera The Pet Shop and later the concert lecture Det’ Bar’Opera! (It’s just opera!).






Rosalinde, Die Fledermaus, Wilhelma Theater Stutthart










Last Updated 24.10.31




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