Katharine Goeldner Mezzo Soprano
With elegant vocality and impeccable artistic ability, Katharine Goeldner is one of the finest mezzo-sopranos to have risen through the operatic ranks in recent years. Her most recent highlights include covering GERTRUDE Hamlet at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, KOMPONIST Ariadne auf Naxos for Opera de Oviedo, HERODIAS Salome in the USA and GESCHWITZ Lulu for Opera Graz. Her forthcoming appearances include the PITTI-SING The Mikado (conducted by Sir Andrew Davis) and the title role in Carmen, both for Chicago Lyric Opera, and will sing the role of PAGE Salome for De Zaterdag Matinee in Amsterdam in 2011.
Website - www.katharinegoeldner.com
With elegant vocality and impeccable artistic ability, Katharine Goeldner is one of the finest mezzo-sopranos to have risen through the operatic ranks in recent years. Her most recent highlights include KOMPONIST Ariadne auf Naxos for Opera de Oviedo, covering GERTRUDE Hamlet at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, HERODIAS Salome in the USA and GESCHWITZ Lulu for Opera Graz. Her forthcoming appearances include the PITTI-SING The Mikado (conducted by Sir Andrew Davis) and the title role in Carmen, both for Chicago Lyric Opera, and she has just been invited to sing the role of PAGE Salome for De Zaterdag Matinee in Amsterdam in 2011.
Currently living in Salzburg, her 2008 - 09 appearances included her Lyric Opera of Chicago and Florida Grand Opera debuts as SUZUKI in Madama Butterfly, as well as concerts with the Vienna Symphony, Orchestra Iowa, Bilbao Symphony, and the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra. She has appeared in recent seasons as ERIKA in Barber's Vanessa, as RUGGIERO in Handel's Alcina, and in the title role of Carmen at New York City Opera; DORABELLA (Cosi fan tutte) at the Santa Fe Opera; FENENA (Nabucco) in Dallas, Bilbao, Antwerp and Ghent; PRINCE ORLOFSKY (Die Fledermaus) at the Metropolitan Opera and with Seiji Ozawa in Japan; THE COMPOSER (Ariadne auf Naxos) in Madrid, Salzburg, Toulouse, Lyon, and Paris' Châtelet; the title role of Der Rosenkavalier in Toulouse, Lyon and Seville; FRICKA (Das Rheingold), WALTRAUTE (Götterdämmerung) and GESHWITZ (Lulu) in Toulouse; CHARLOTTE (Werther) in Bilbao; and NICKLAUSSE (Les contes d'Hoffmann) at the Metropolitan Opera and in Bilbao.
Her recital and concert appearances include Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg in Costa Mesa, California, and chamber music concerts and master classes with The Prairie Song Project at the University of Wisconsin/Stevens Point and Abilene Christian University.
The New York Times has praised her voice as “excitingly radiant and agile.” Newsday applauded her “liquid plangent tones…crystal-clear diction and contained, but simmering, intensity.”
Website - www.katharinegoeldner.com
Katharine Goeldner
Date: 22nd July
Carmen at Dorset Opera
Katharine Goeldner makes a long-awaited UK debut as Carmen for Dorset Opera, performances 29th and 31st July 2010. See www.dorsetopera.com for more details.
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