KATHERINE WHYTE

Soprano Katherine Whyte has performed on opera and concert stages across her native Canada, the United States and Europe, most recently returning to the Canadian Opera Company as Iris in Semele at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Metropolitan Opera as Brigitta in Iolanta, and as a recitalist with their Rising Star Recital series.  She sang the Countess in The Princeton Festival’s production of Le nozze di Figaro, and appeared with the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional in Beethoven's 9th Symphony. The 2015-2016 season brings a debut with the Dallas Opera and a return to the Metropolitan Opera Company for their production of Rigoletto.  Ms. Whyte made her debut with Canadian Opera Company in the 2011-2012 season in the title role of Iphigénie en Tauride and returned the same season as Iris in Semele. Following her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2007 in Strauss’ Die ägyptische Helena, she has returned for The Gambler, The Enchanted Island, Two Boys, and Parsifal. Other highlights include her Vancouver Opera debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Beethoven’s Mass in C Major and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Houston Symphony, Carmina Burana with the National Chorale, Mozart’s Requiem with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Gilda in Rigoletto with English National Opera, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with Michigan Opera Theatre, Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with Atlanta Opera, and Iphis in Handel’s Jephta with Opéra National de Bordeaux.