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. After taking the top prize in the 2017 Clermont-Ferrand International Vocal Competition, Katharine will make her role debut as Konstanze in a new production of Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail in five French opera houses throughout 2018 and 2019: Clermont-Ferrand, Avignon, Rouen, Massy, and Reims.
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. After taking the top prize in the 2017 Clermont-Ferrand International Vocal Competition, Katharine will make her role debut as Konstanze in a new production of Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail in five French opera houses throughout 2018 and 2019: Clermont-Ferrand, Avignon, Rouen, Massy, and Reims.
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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September 8, 2017I'm back in gorgeous Aldeburgh for a Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme course on Strauss songs and arias. It's a pretty wonderful way to spend a week--sleeping in absolute silence, waking up to sounds of gulls, working all day on subtleties of music and German with immensely skilled and generous people, making a quiet dinner, walking on a rocky beach, going to sleep. Yesterday, on our day off, we toured Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears'... -
August 29, 2017It’s not even September and already I’m a little overwhelmed. I had a lovely, restorative vacation in Finland, but as soon as I got back home in early August, things cranked into high gear. I find myself, once again, actively seeking balance. First up after my holiday, I taught for a week at a festival in Budapest, during which time I bonded intensely with colleagues, introduced some lifelong choral singers to more sound than they knew... -
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.
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