Katherine Johnson

Soprano

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In the words of one reviewer, Katherine Johnson was "the absolute singing actress". During her career she was heard at The Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Music Center Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Baltimore Opera, New Orleans Opera, Opera/Columbus, Edmonton Opera, Manitoba Opera, Pacific Opera(Victoria), New Jersey State Opera, Florida Grand Opera, L’Opéra de Nice, Opera Orchestra of New York, Canterbury Opera (Christchurch, N.Z.), and L'Opéra de Québec, in a wide range of repertoire including the title roles of Tosca, Elektra, and Jenufa. Ms. Johnson has presented her solo cabaret ‘Weill, Weiber and Gesang’ throughout North America and at the London Opera Festival. Her concert career included singing many of the greatest choral masterpieces including Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14, Rossini's Stabat Mater, Mahler's Symphony No. 4, and the Verdi Requiem with organizations including the Boston Philharmonic, Spokane Symphony, L'Orchestre Metropolitain (Montreal), Edmonton Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, Orchestra London (Canada), and the National Arts Center Orchestra (Ottawa).
Kate retired from her singing career in 1997 and established the Kate Johnson Voice Studio in New York City where she teaches both classically oriented singers and those working in the field of musical theater and cabaret. Miss Johnson is a voice teacher at Princeton’s Westminster Choir College where she has been on the faculty since 2006. Prior to that she spent three years on the faculty of the University of Miami. Since June 2005 Kate Johnson has been the founder and director of Music Theater Italy, a four week intensive training course in the small town of Conegliano Italy.
Her students regularly appear nationally and internationally, including at San Francisco Opera, Opera Pacific, Ravinia Festival, Chicago Lyric Opera, Sarasota Opera, New York City Opera, Knoxville Opera, Connecticut Grand Opera, Nevada Opera Theater, Hungarian State Opera, Annapolis Symphony, American Ballet Theater, Santa Fe Opera, Savoy Opera (London, England), Hyde Park Festival, and in concert in Poland, Germany, France and Italy. In the lighter music venues she has students performing on Broadway in Chicago, in numerous Off-Broadway musical, and in the national tours of High School Musical, Crazy For You, and Hairspray, as well as many regional theater companies. Her students have won prizes in important competitions include second place in the Puccini Competition, and a finalist in the Placido Domingo Operalia competition in Barcelona.

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