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KATHLEEN McCALLA, winner of vocal competitions: "Toti
dal Monte" at Treviso, "Viotti"
at Vercelli, "Puccini" at Lucca,
"Mario del Monaco at Villa Manin (Udine) and "Francisco Vinas" at Barcelona (Spain).
Studies at Wichita State
University and diploma of Bachelor of Music at the Manhattan School of
music at New York.
Vocal studies with Margaret Hoswell, Marlene Kleinman and Enza Ferrari.
After debuting in "Le nozze di Figaro" at Rovigo/Treviso
for several years she was heard in numerous German, Swiss and Dutch Theaters in the repertoire
as a "dramatic coloratura" soprano, advancing to lyric roles
and eventually
singing "Lirico-spinto" roles, such
as LEONORA (Trovatore), LEONORA (Forza del Destino),
LUCREZIA (Due Foscari), MADAMA
BUTTERFLY, FREIA(Rheingold), AGATHE(Freischütz),
Messa da
Requiem (Verdi), SUOR ANGELICA, GIORGETTA (Tabarro),
TOSCA, DESDEMONA(Otello),
ELVIRA (Ernani), AIDA . And
while retaining the beauty and agility in the voice she has now sung with
great success the following full dramatic soprano roles, becoming part of
the "new generation" soprano in such roles as:
LA FANCIULLA DEL
WEST, TURANDOT,
LEONORE(Fidelio), ABIGAILLE
(Nabucco), SANTUZZA (Cavalleria Rusticana),
LA GIOCONDA,
SENTA(Fliegender Hollaender),
LADY MACBETH (Macbeth) and FEDORA.
Excelling vocally and captivating in her stage prescence,
she has been especially noted as ABIGAILLE, TURANDOT, MINNIE in LA FANCIULLA DEL
WEST, TOSCA and of late, LADY MACBETH and SANTUZZA, performing both
modern and traditional interpretations.
Among many others, she has sung with the following conductors : Anton Guadagno, Marcello Viotto,
Spiro Algeris, Janos
Acs, Eve Queler,
Renato Palumbo, Eugene Kohn, Marco Armigliatto, Dennis Russel
Davies, Romano Gandolfo, Giuliano Carrella, Yuri Ahronovitch, Carlo Paleschi,
Tiziano Severini etc.
Among the theaters which have recently applauded her:
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (TURANDOT), Deutsche Oper Berlin (MADAMA
BUTTERFLY), Capetown (TURANDOT, ABIGAILLE,
TOSCA), Oper
Bonn (SUOR ANGELICA, GIORGETTA, DESDEMONA, FANCIULLA DEL WEST, TOSCA,
LEONORE/Fidelio), Torre del Lago-Puccini
(FANCIULLA
DEL WEST), Teatro San Carlo of Lisbon
(ABIGAILLE), Teatro Politeama di Lecce (ABIGAILLE), Teatro Las Palmas (LEONORE/Fidelio),
Luglio Musicale of Trapani (ELVIRA/Ernani), Livorno
(MADAMA BUTTERFLY), Verdianeum Roncole-Verdi di
Busseto (AIDA), Santa
Cruz de Tenerive
(LEONORA/Trovatore), Palm Beach Opera
(DESDEMONA), Staatstheater Wiesbaden
(LEONORA/Forza del Destino), Theater
Bremen (LEONORA/Forza del Destino), Rio de
Janeiro (AIDA), Oper Bonn (SANTUZZA and
ABIGAILLE), Bilbao (ABIGAILLE), Bari (TURANDOT),
Arena Festival Zofingen(CH) and Xanten (D) (ABIGAILLE, TURANDOT),
Hannover (AMELIA-Simon Boccanegra), Frankfurt
(SANTUZZA),
Rome Teatro dell‘Opera (TURANDOT) , Palm Beach Opera (SENTA and FANCIULLA DEL WEST), Maribor Opera (LADY MACBETH), Graz Opera (TURANDOT);
"Summer-festivals": Vigevano (I)
ABIGAILLE, Ljiublijana (SL) LADY MACBETH, Massa
Marittima (I) LADY MACBETH,
Taormina (I) AIDA, LA
FANCIULLA DEL WEST in Lucca, Livorno,
Pisa, Bergamo and Ascoli Piceno, 3.a symphony
of Henryk Gorecki in
Lucca,
LADY MACBETH, in Novisad (Serbia), SANTUZZA(Cavalleria
Rusticana) in Lerida(Spagna), TURANDOT in Graz, TURANDOT in Maribor, and debut in FEDORA (Maribor),
ABIGAILLE at Mannheim, ALICE FORD at Maribor,
TOSCA at the Ljiubiana Summer Festival,
ABIGAILLE at Massa Marittima,
ABIGAILLE at Oberammergau, ABIGAILLE with the
Royal Canadian Opera, Toronto...............................
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