Kate Lindsey Mezzo-soprano

Biography

A native of Richmond, Virginia, Kate Lindseylives in the United Kingdom. She appears regularly in many opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, New York, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Salzburg Festival and Aix-en-Provence Festival. Career highlights include her house debut at Teatro alla Scala in a Kurt Weill double bill of Mahagonny Songspiel and Die sieben Todsünden. With the Wiener Staatsoper she performed the title role in the world premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando, made her role debut as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) and sang Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea), the roles of La Musica and La Speranza (L’Orfeo,) and Penelope (Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria).

She has sung a dozen of various roles at the Metropolitan Opera New York, including Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Annio (La clemenza di Tito), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), The Muse / Nicklausse (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Nerone (Agrippina) and, more recently, Idamante (Idomeneo). She also created the role of Offred (The Handmaid's Tale by Poul Ruders) at the English National Opera, sang the title role in Miranda at the Opéra Comique and Sister Helen (Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking) at the Washington National Opera. Kate Lindsey also regularly performs in concerts. Her first solo album ‘Thousands of Miles’ comprises the works of Weill, Korngold and Zemlinsky, and her second album ‘Arianna’, features pieces by Scarlatti, Handel and Haydn. Her third album ‘Tiranno’ focuses on the character of Nero and brings together Baroque works by Monteverdi and Handel with recordings of cantatas by Scarlatti and Bartolomeo Monari.

The 2023/24 season sees as as Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Miranda and Despina (Così fan tutte) at the Wiener Staatsoper, Charlotte (Werther) at the Baden-Baden Theatre, and Offred at the English National Opera. She also appears in Handel’s Messiah at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, as well as in works by Schumann, Fauré and Sondheim at Park Avenue Armory and in Alma Mahler’s Sieben Lieder at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.