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Kate Egan Soprano Kate Egan, a native of Appleton, Wisconsin holds degrees in Vocal Performance from the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Since her debut as Micaela in Carmen with Sarasota Opera, Kate has performed leading roles with opera companies including the New York City Opera, Chautauqua, Glimmerglass, Mobile, Sacramento, Skylight, Tampa Bay, Tulsa, and Utah Operas, the New England Lyric Operetta, the Rockford Symphony and the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players. She made her European debut with Opera North in England after being invited by director Jonathan Miller to join an all English cast of Cimarosa's The Secret Marriage.

Kate has toured with the Philip Glass Ensemble in La Belle et la Bete and Monsters of Grace. Her versatility as a singing actress won her the role of Elsa Schraeder in the national company of The Sound of Music starring Maria Osmond, and a role in the Public Theatre's production of Caryl Churchill's The Skryker (with music by Judith Weir). Also accomplished on the concert stage, Kate made her Carnegie Hall debut as the soprano soloist in the Poulenc Gloria with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the Westminster Choir.

Highlights of the past several seasons include the title role in Semele with Anchorage Opera, Josephine in HMS Pinafore with Mobile Opera, Rose Maurrant in Street Scene with Chautauqua, and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, a role she has sung for the Anchorage and Tulsa Operas, as well as Opera Longview. Other engagements have included Adele in Die Fledermaus with Tampa Bay and Anchorage Operas, Yum Yum in The Mikado with Chautauqua and Anchorage Operas, Corilla in Donizetti's Viva La Mamma with Skylight Opera, Adina in L'Elisir d'amore with the Anchorage Opera and Musetta in La Bohème with the Rockford Symphony.

Kate has sung Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra and is familiar to audiences in her adopted hometown of Anchorage for her many appearances with Anchorage Opera, the Anchorage Music Festival, the Alaska Chamber Singers and the Anchorage Concert Chorus. She recently recorded a CD of duets with mezzo –soprano, Marlene Bateman, and pianist, Juliana Osinchuk, called, "Nothing but singing to do." The CD will be released in April of 2008. Kate will sing Rosina in Il Barbiere di Seviglia with Anchorage Opera this coming season.


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KATE EGAN
Soprano

Opera/Operetta/Concert
Rosina Il Barbiere di Seviglia Anchorage Opera 2/08
Soloist Nothing but singing to do – CD Release Anchorage, AK 4/08
Soloist Nothing but singing to do - Duet Recital Ukrainian Institute, New York 12/07
Miss Havisham Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night Anchorage Opera Second Stage 4/07
Soloist Viva Verdi Anchorage Opera 11/06
Musetta La Bohème Rockford Symphony 5/06
Soloist Bach Cantata #51 AK Chamber Singers 1/06
Elvira L'Italiana in Algeri Anchorage Opera 11/05
Soloist Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Anchorage Symphony Orch. 10/05
Betsy Sweet Betsy From Pike Anchorage Opera Guild 4/05
Yum Yum The Mikado Anchorage Opera 4/04
Soloist Knoxville Summer of 1915 Anchorage Symphony Orch. 4/04
Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro Opera Longview 6/03
Adele Die Fledermaus Anchorage Opera 3/03
Corilla Viva la Mamma Skylight Opera Theatre 02/03
Amor Orfeo ed Euridice Anchorage Opera 11/02
Adina L'Elisir d'amore Anchorage Opera 3/02
Adele Die Fledermaus Tampa Bay Opera 11/01
Yum Yum The Mikado Chautauqua Opera 8/01
Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro Tulsa Opera 3/01
The Shepard Tannhäuser Tulsa Opera 2/01
Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro Anchorage Opera 11/00
Rose Street Scene Chautauqua Opera 8/00
Phyllis Iolanthe Anchorage Opera 3/00
Josephine H.M.S. Pinafore Mobile Opera 2000
Semele Semele Anchorage Opera 1/00
Hanna Glavari The Merry Widow Sacramento Opera 1999
Micaëla Carmen Anchorage Opera 1999
Amalia She Loves Me Chautauqua Opera 1998
1st Wild Goose Paul Bunyan New York City Opera 1998
Sophie (cover) Emmeline New York City Opera 1998
Soprano Monsters of Grace (Glass/Wilson) Barcelona/Scandinavia 1998
Barbarina Le Nozze di Figaro New York City Opera 1998
Polly Threepenny Opera Skylight Opera Theatre 1998
Norina (cover) Don Pasquale New York City Opera 1997
Papagena The Magic Flute New York City Opera 1997
Elvira (cover) L'Italiana in Algeri New York City Opera 1997
Atalante (cover) Xerxes New York City Opera 1997
Eurydice Orpheus in the Underworld Anchorage Opera 1997
Mabel Pirates of Penzance Master Works Chorus(David Briskin, cond.) 1997
Countess The Conspirators (Schubert) Bronx Opera 1997
Felcie/Adlaide La Belle et la Bête Philip Glass Ensemble 95/97
Elisetta The Secret Marriage (J. Miller, Dir.) Opera North (Leeds, England) 1993
Elisetta Il Matrimonio Segreto Glimmerglass Opera 1992
Micaela Carmen Sarasota Opera 1992
Blonde Abduction from the Seraglio Chautauqua Opera 1994
Cherubino Marriage of Figaro Chautauqua Opera 1991
Musetta La Bohéme Opera Theatre at Wildwood 1994
Micaëla La Tragedie de Carmen Ashlawn-Highland Festival 1995
Frasquita Carmen Florentine Opera 1993
Bacchis La Belle Hélène Utah Opera 1993
Marianne The New Moon New England Lyric Operetta 1993

Concert
Soprano Soloist St. Matthew Passion Anchorage Concert Chorus 2002
Soprano Soloist Lord Nelson Mass/Faure Requiem Alaska Chamber Singers 3/01
Soprano Soloist Mozart's Requiem Alaska Chamber Singers 1999
Soprano Soloist Poulenc's Gloria/Carnegie Hall Orchestra of St. Luke's 1996
Soprano Soloist Handel's Messiah Westchester Chorale/NY 1992

Awards and Honors/Additional Experience
International Contemporary Opera Competition, 3rd Place, 1995
YWCA Studio Club Singers Competition, Finalist, 1992
Baltimore Opera Vocal Competition, Semi-Finalist, 1992

Professional Training
Eastman School of Music, M.M., Perf. Cert. in Opera; Univ. of MN, B.M., Magna Cum Laude