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Kara Shay Thomson
Soprano
New England Third Place Winner 1997

Career highlights have included the title role in Tosca with Central City Opera and Opera North; the Countess In Le Nozze Di Figaro with Toledo Opera and Utah Festival Opera; Musetta in La Bohème and the Daughter in Strawberry Fields (touring production) with Glimmerglass Opera; Mimi in La Bohème with Colorado’s Emerald City Opera; Female Chorus in The Rape Of Lucretia, Miss Jessel In The Turn Of The Screw, and Fortuna in Monteverdi’s Il Coronazione Di Poppea with Chicago Opera Theater; First Lady in The Magic Flute with Opera Festival of New Jersey; Micaëla in a fully-staged production of Carmen with the Amherst Symphony; Violetta in La Traviata at Wisconsin’s Fox Cities Performing Arts Center; the title role in Regina with the Bronx Opera; Adina in L'elisir D’amore with Dicapo Opera Theatre; Fiordiligi in Così Fan Tutte with Opera Domani; Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus with Boston's Commonwealth Opera; and Arminda in Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera at Amherst College. Concert highlights have included Violetta in La Traviata with the Sioux City Symphony; the title role in IRIS with Teatro Grattacielo; a staged interpretation of Schubert's Die Winterreise with the Jaques Thibaud Trio; a Carnegie Hall debut in Bach's Magnificat with the Manhattan Philharmonic; Strauss's Vier Letzte Lieder with the Amherst Symphony; both the Brahms Requiem and Carmina Burana with the Lynchburg Symphony; the Mozart Requiem with Albany Pro Musica; Barber’s Knoxville: Summer Of 1915 with the Muncie Symphony; and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra.

For more information about this artist, visit her web site. Ms. Thomson is represented by Hendrickson Artists Management.

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