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Kara Shay Thomson
soprano
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, Utah Festival Opera, and Pensacola Opera; Musetta in LA BOHÈME and the Daughter in STRAWBERRY FIELDS (touring production) with Glimmerglass Opera; the title role in MADAMA BUTTERFLY and 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; a Lincoln Center debut in Beethoven's NINTH SYMPHONY with the National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall; 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.
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last update: August 20, 2007
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