Katja Boost

Katja Boost was born in Wiesbaden and started studying voice at the age of 15 at the Peter-Cornelius-Konservatorium in Mainz with Prof. Gertie Charlent. She finished her studies in 1996. In 1994 she got a grant for Bayreuth from the Richard-Wagner-Verband in Wiesbaden. She attended master classes with Thomas Dewald, Ulf Bästlein and also Professor Julia Hamari, in whose class she studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart.

In summer 1998 Katja Boost sang Filipjevna in Eugene Onegin in a production of the European Union Opera in the new Festspielhaus Baden-Baden as well as the Théatre des Champs Elysées in Paris in a production of Nikolaus Lehnhoff. She gave her German debut in November 1998 at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe as Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte. In May 1999 she sang La Badessa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica at the Bühnen der Stadt Köln whose member she became in 2000/2001.

From September 1999 to July 2000 she was in the Junges Ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. In September 1999 she undertook a concert tour with Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka on behalf of the Goethe-Institute.

Katja Boost gave her festival debut in summer 1999 as Bianca in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia at the Kammeroper im Rathaushof in Konstanz. In April 2000 she sang the Voice of Cassandra in the world premiere of Cassandra Complex by Gerhard Stäbler at the opening of the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden. She sang her first Erda in Das Rheingold in July 2001 at the Festspielen der Oper im Zirkuszelt in Merzig/Saarland. In the season 2001/02 she sang both Rheingold and Siegfried Erda at the Bühnen der Stadt Köln. In the season 2003/04 she sang in Cologne the following roles: Mère Jeanne in Les Dialogues des Carmélites, Pincess Clarice in  L’Amour des trois Oranges and Schwertleite in Walküre.In summer 2004 Katja Boost sang, among others, Mamma Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana at the Opera Piccola in Bad Schwalbach.

Katja Boost has been working freelance since the 2004/2005 season. While leading an active life as a concert singer, she has obtained guest contracts as Third Lady (The Magic Flute), Mère Jeanne (Les Dialogues des Carmélites) and Quickly (Falstaff) at the Mecklenburgischen  Staatstheater Schwerin. Further engagements have led her to sing Schwertleite (Die Walküre) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Katharina (Johanna auf dem Scheiterhaufen) at the Staatstheater Kassen and as Third Lady at the Badische Staatstheater Karlsruhe. In February 2008, she repeated the role of Quickly (Falstaff), this time at the Staatstheater Kassel.

In October 2009, she sang First Norn in Götterdämmerung at the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos, Lisbon. In February 2010 she guested as Filipjewna (Eugene Onegin) at Theater Aachen. In March 2010 she sang The Voice of the Mother (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) at Stadttheater Gießen.

In April 2010 Katja Boost interpreted the part of Mary in Der fliegende Holländer for the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari under the baton of Marco Letonja.

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