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Young dramatic mezzo-soprano Cheri Rose Katz has distinguished herself
for “beauty of tone and stylish musicality”. Her outstanding talent captured
the attention of the American Berlin Opera Foundation, which awarded her the
Curt Engelhorn Scholarship. Deutsche Opera Berlin engaged her for a season,
and renewed her contract for a second season. While at Deutsche Opera
Berlin, she covered some of the great mezzo roles such as Azucena, Amneris, Ulrica,
and Preziosilla, and performed numerous roles including the Page in Salome,
Enrichetta in I Puritani, the Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Giovanna in
Ernani, Frugola and Ciesca in their new production of Il Trittico, Madelon
in Andrea Chenier, Rossweise in Die Walküre, as well as Flosshilde in Das
Rheingold and Götterdämmerung.
Ms. Katz earned critical notice in Berlin for her 'strong, expressive voice
that can be delicate or powerful.' Elsewhere, she has performed Amneris in
Aida for Opera Internationale on tour. Ms. Katz made her debut at the
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, in Die Walküre, as Rossweiße, under conductor
Christian Thielemann. Other recent debuts included the world premiere
of Dulcinea, by composer Lorenzo Palomo, at the Berlin Konzert Hall, to be released by Naxos next year. Her Berlin Philharmonic debut in Ernani, with tenor Salvatore Licitra and Renato Palumbo conducting.Of her recent performance in Rigoletto with Greenboro Opera, , Classical Voice of North Carolina reports: “As the voluptuous Maddalena, mezzo-soprano Cheri Rose Katz’s lush, full sound bordered on that of a true contralto. ” She will perform Maddalena again in Colombia in 2008. In December, Ms.Katz traveled to New Orleans for Handel’s Messiah, and then toured Israel, which concluded with an International televised concert in Manger Square in Bethlehem on Christmas eve, as well as concert engagements across America. In May she will sing the contralto solo in Alexander Nevski Cantata by prokofiev with the Sinfonica de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Before leaving the U.S. for Berlin, Ms. Katz performed the title role in
Mascagni's Zanetto for the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, for
which she earned praise. Elsewhere, she appeared with Central City Opera and
Sarasota Opera as a young artist, and performed principal roles with Opera
of the Hamptons and DiCapo Opera Theater. Ms. Katz, made her debut at the
Teatro da Fontana in Italy; where she worked with celebrated soprano
Antonietta Stella, performing excerpts from Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana,
Adriana Lecouvreur, and Don Carlo.
Cheri Rose Katz has been a winner and finalist of a number of important
vocal competitions, including the Gerda Lissner Foundation, Palm Beach Opera
Competition, Florida Grand Opera, National Society of Arts and Letters, and
the MacAllister Awards. Ms. Katz holds a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal
performance from the University of Miami's School of Music.
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