Education
Artist Diploma, Juilliard Opera School, Juilliard
Masters in Music, Opera, University of Toronto
Bachelor of Music, Voice, University of Toronto
Katherine Whyte has delighted audiences and critics alike on opera and concert stages across her native Canada, the United States, and Europe. Opera Today has praised her “keen artistic sensibility” while the San Francisco Classical Voice singled out “her glamorous, vibrato-rich voice”. Following her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2007 in Strauss’ Die Ägyptische Helena, she has returned to the company for productions of Iolanta, Rigoletto, Jenůfa, The Gambler, The Enchanted Island, Two Boys, Parsifal, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and Suor Angelica.
Recent and upcoming engagements for Ms. Whyte include her celebrated Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Las Vegas, Opera Montana, Opera Saratoga, Charlottesville Opera, and the Norwalk Symphony; her debut at Dallas Opera as Pousette in Manon; her debut with Syracuse’s Symphoria performing Poulenc’s Gloria; a return to New Choral Society as soprano soloist in Carmina Burana; her debut with Heartbeat Opera as Agathe in Der Freischütz; Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte with Opera Grand Rapids; a solo recital with Djordje Nesic at the celebrated Kolarac Hall in Belgrade Serbia; and orchestral and opera appearances with Opera Hong Kong, the Kaohsiung Symphony and the Meet in Beijing Arts Festival.
Ms. Whyte has been the soprano soloist for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Santa Rosa, Louisiana and Eugene Symphonies. She was delighted to debut last summer with Orpheus PDX singing the Role of Aminta in Mozart’s Il re pastore, and will return this summer to sing Aci in Handel’s Aci, Galaeta e Polifemo.
Past seasons have included Poulenc’s Gloria with the Greensboro Symphony, a Sibelius concert with the Vallejo Festival Orchestra, Mimi in La bohème with Opera Montana, Elijah with the New Choral Society, and Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra. Katherine reprised her beloved Countess with Utah Opera and sang Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Oregon Symphony. Katherine sang Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the Delaware County Symphony, Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Greenwich Choral Society, and holiday concerts with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Fresno Philharmonic. She performed Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Greenwich Symphony.