CAST BIOS




KATRINA THURMAN


Appearing in: Barcelona and Milan

Katrina Thurman embarks upon her 2009-2010 season with Belinda in Dido & Aeneas with the The Yard, Martha’s Vineyard, and a recording of Louis Karchin’s opera, Romulus, on the Naxos label. She then debuts with Sacramento Opera as Adina in L’elisir d’amore and as Liz in the workshop staging of Conrad Cummings’ new opera, The Golden Gate. In the 2008-2009 season,

Ms. Thurman made her Lyric Opera of Kansas City debut as Musetta in La bohème, joined Florida Grand Opera as Ellen in Lakmé, Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, and the cover of Clorida in La Cenerentola, and rounded out the season as Amy in Little Women for Syracuse Opera. In the 2007-2008 season, Ms. Thurman was seen as Rose in Lakmé and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte with Tulsa Opera, and returned to Glimmerglass Opera as the cover of Bianca/Lois Lane in Kiss Me, Kate and a soloist in the concert “We Open in Paris” with Steven Blier.

Other performance highlights include Ms. Thurman’s French opera debut as Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos with Opéra National de Lyon following her critically acclaimed German debut as Vénus in Rameau's Dardanus, and Mrs. Naidoo in Phillip Glass’ Satyagraha with Oper Bonn. In response to her performance as Alej in Janácek’s From the House of the Dead with Oper Bonn, the Cologne Rundschau hailed “Katrina Thurman was the highlight in this somber opera without women and heroes.” while the Bonn General-Anzeiger acclaimed “ . . . Katrina Thurman as Aljeja shares moments of most tender intimacy.”

Katrina Thurman