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The American soprano, Kate Wood, obtained her Bachelor of Music degrre in Voice Performance from Rider University; and her Master of Music degree in Voice and Opera from New England Conservatory of Music (2019-2021). Garnering acclaim within the vocal competition circuit, she was named 1st place winner of The American Prize: Friedrich and Virginia Schorr Memorial Awards in Voice, awarded 2nd place in MIOpera’s International Emerging Artist Competition, and granted 3rd place in the New Hampshire Opera Idol competition all within 2024. Among other recent acknowledgements, she was a semi-finalist in Opera Tampa’s 2024 D’Angelo Young Artist Competition and Opera Mississippi's 2023 John Alexander Competition, and a finalist in CS Music’s 2021 Online Competition.
Kate Wood “deployed her pure soprano with a goddess’s dignity” (Boston Musical Intelligencer) as Venus in John Blow’s rare Baroque gem, Venus and Adonis with Cambridge Chamber Ensemble, and was seen as Mabel in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance with Marblehead Little Theatre in 2022. In 2021, she performed Madame Herz in W.A. Mozart's The Impresario with Winter Harbor Music Festival. At NEC she performed the roles of Tamiri in Il re pastore, Lady with a Hand Mirror in Postcard from Morocco, and excerpts from title roles in Theodora and Orfeo ed Euridice with NEC Opera Theatre. Other favorite opera roles include: La Fée in Cendrillon, Olympia in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Echo in All Wounds Bleed, Susanna in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Morgana in George Frideric Handel's Alcina, Gretel and Dew Fairy in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Zerlina in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Papagena in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Cynire in Echo et Narcisse, and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas.
As a soloist on the concert stage, Kate Wood has most recently collaborated with Masterworks Chorale, Old South Church, and Coro Dante in performances of Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria, Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, Felix Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer, and Antonio Vivaldi's Dixit Dominus. In Spring 2025, she joined Marsh Chapel for J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion BWV 245 as soprano soloist and ensemble member. Other concert engagements include G.F. Handel's Messiah, J.S. Bach's Magnificat in D major BWV 243, W.A. Mozart's Missa Solemnis in C, as well as solo cantatas Mi palpita il cor (HWV 132b), Pensieri notturni di Filli (HWV 134), and J.S. Bach's Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (BWV 51). Also an alumna of Westminster Choir College, she has performed major works as a chorister with such leading orchestras as the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestra.
Soprano Kate Wood’s 2024-2025 season includes Madame Goldentrill in The Impresario with Lighthouse Opera, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel with Boston Opera Collaborative, Fredrika & Mrs. Nordstrom cover in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music with St. Petersburg Opera, Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale with Quisisana, Bride cover in Menotti’s Labyrinth with Cambridge Chamber Ensemble, and creating the role of Chloris in Ted & Togo Productions’ adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Haunted Palace in its micro-operatic world premiere. In 2023, she was featured as Lucy in Menotti’s The Telephone with Angels Vocal Art, and Olympia in Pinocchio by John Davies and Oberto cover in G.F. Handel's Alcina, both with St. Petersburg Opera. |
