American soprano Katharine Dain maintains an active and growing performance calendar in Europe and North America. Highlights of recent seasons include a solo recital of Strauss, Marx, and Korngold lieder in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw; her debuts in Paris (Philharmonie), Brussels (La Monnaie), and the Aldeburgh Festival in ENOA’s Be With Me Now (a co-production of Festival Aix-en-Provence, the Dutch National Opera, and six other European presenters); two seasons at Ireland’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival; and her Italian debut with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna under the baton of Roberto Abbado.
American soprano Katharine Dain maintains an active and growing performance calendar in Europe and North America. Highlights of recent seasons include a solo recital of Strauss, Marx, and Korngold lieder in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw; her debuts in Paris (Philharmonie), Brussels (La Monnaie), and the Aldeburgh Festival in ENOA’s Be With Me Now (a co-production of Festival Aix-en-Provence, the Dutch National Opera, and six other European presenters); two seasons at Ireland’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival; and her Italian debut with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna under the baton of Roberto Abbado.
Mozart has unquestionably found in the beautiful American soprano Katharine Dain an ideal Konstanze. Fluent high range, expressive middle, virtuosity without excess, dramatic intelligence: her “Martern aller Arten” promises us a splendid heroine.
FORUM OPERA
Mozart has unquestionably found in the beautiful American soprano Katharine Dain an ideal Konstanze. Fluent high range, expressive middle, virtuosity without excess, dramatic intelligence: her “Martern aller Arten” promises us a splendid heroine.
FORUM OPERA
Katharine is becoming known for unusual musical imagination, intelligence, and fearlessness. Equally comfortable with new and old music, she has jumped in to replace ill soloists in several high-profile performances, including with Asko|Schönberg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam (Grote Zaal and Kleine Zaal), the Holland Festival, and the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, in chamber music from Shostakovich to Gubaidulina and oratorio from Nono to a premiere by Jan van de Putte. Her debut with the Dutch National Opera was in Claude Vivier Kopernikus (Coloratura Soprano), a production of its Talent Development Programme in 2014.
A passionate promoter of chamber music and recital repertoire, she has co-founded several chamber groups including, most recently, Damask Vocal Quartet.
Katharine is becoming known for unusual musical imagination, intelligence, and fearlessness. Equally comfortable with new and old music, she has jumped in to replace ill soloists in several high-profile performances, including with Asko|Schönberg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam (Grote Zaal and Kleine Zaal), the Holland Festival, and the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, in chamber music from Shostakovich to Gubaidulina and oratorio from Nono to a premiere by Jan van de Putte. Her debut with the Dutch National Opera was in Claude Vivier Kopernikus (Coloratura Soprano), a production of its Talent Development Programme in 2014.
A passionate promoter of chamber music and recital repertoire, she has co-founded several chamber groups including, most recently, Damask Vocal Quartet.
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July 30, 2017Greetings from gorgeous Finland, where I am hiking, cycling, sleeping, sauna-ing, birdwatching, eating a lot of strawberries and salmon and rye bread, and generally letting the dust settle from this season. I'm also sifting my thoughts about high and low points and how I want to move forward; probably there will be a longer post about this later. For now, though, there's just a rowboat. -
June 8, 2017I’m in Toronto, and last night was Rosenkavalier dress rehearsal. I’m singing Marschallin in two concert performances with chamber orchestra this weekend, and the process of learning this monumental score has been overwhelming, joyful, fraught, thoughtful, stressful, beautiful—depends on which day you ask. Tomorrow night is the first performance, and today is a rest day. I’m staying with some family who live just outside of town. What have I done so far today, after last night’s tiring... -
April 15, 2017Hot on the heels of a magnificent Matthew Passion (Choir of King's College Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music, Stephen Cleobury), I found myself on the train back to London, reading the following New Yorker article (March 27, 2017) about the philosopher Daniel Dennett, who studies consciousness. Although the whole article resonated with me, the following in particular struck a chord. Dennett is often cited as one of the "four horsemen of the New Atheism." ......
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