Katherine Beck, Mezzo Soprano

Katherine Beck is praised by the Boston Globe for her “balmy-voiced mezzo” and her “uniformly excellent” interpretations. She will make her company debut with Florentine Opera in these performances of Il barbiere di Siviglia. The 2021-22 season is her final as a member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center where she sang her first performances of Wellgunde in Twilight: Gods, the company’s sold-out presentation based on the Ring Cycle. She also sings Isabella in L’inganno felice with the new Opera Festival of Chicago, joins the Metropolitan Opera roster for Akhnaten, and returns to Arizona Opera as Dorabella in Così fan tutte, at which she previously sang Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and Mary Johnson in Fellow Travelers, Flora in La traviata, Madeleine in Silent Night, Dryade in Ariadne auf Naxos, Catherine Wright in Shining Brow, and previous performances of Dorabella in the Marion Roose Pullin Opera Studio’s production of Così fan tutte. She made her Santa Fe Opera debut as Karolka in Jenufa, joined Opera Buffs in Los Angeles as Angelina in La cenerentola, and, with Opera Colorado, created the role of Lisette in the premiere of Steal a Pencil for Me, as well as performed La cenerentola in the company’s student performances. She is a two-time Vocal Arts fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, where she premiered Gandolfini’s In America and sang recitals of French chanson.