MEET KATY
Lauded as a "vocal revelation" (Houston Chronicle), American soprano Katy Lindhart is a versatile and compelling artist, delighting audiences in repertoire that ranges from Verdi to Sondheim.
In the 26/27 season, she returns to Salt Marsh Opera, where she makes her role debut as Dvořák's Rusalka. She also joins Chicago Opera Theater for Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's The Importance of Being Earnest, covering the role of Gwendolyn Fairfax. Later in the season, Katy debuts her curated recital, Anti-Heroines, at the University of Evansville, performing alongside pianist Yasuko Oura. Featuring exclusively works by women composers, Anti-Heroines gives voice to the feared, the maligned, the silenced, and the ignored; women whose stories demand to be told.
Last season, Katy returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Marina Martin in Faye Chiao's Katie: The Strongest of the Strong and for Opera Insights: Salome, where she sang the chilling final scene of Strauss' opera. Katy also made her debut with the Opera Festival of Chicago, covering the title role in Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur and appearing in Very Verismo!, singing selections from Giordano's Andrea Chénier.
Recent highlights include Donizetti's Anna Bolena for Resonance Works, praised by onStage Pittsburgh, who said, "Katy Lindhart takes a firm grip on Anna’s music and delivers it with a ringing voice and whole-souled sincerity… Both in the florid passages and in the sustained dramatic, her silvery tones pack a punch and ring out resoundingly;" Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin for Opera in the Heights, where her letter scene was described as "radiantly sung, a full Russian banquet of girlish delight, indecision, and resolute desire” (Houston Chronicle); and Boïeldieu's rarity, La Dame Blanche, for New Amsterdam Opera, where her “soaring soprano… aced the prima donna cadenzas” (Opera News) and she “proved equally adept in long spun legato lines and brilliant coloratura” (Parterre).
Katy’s repertoire also includes Alice Ford in Falstaff, Elena in I vespri siciliani, Nedda in Pagliacci, Liú in Turandot, Donna Anna and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Marguerite in Faust, Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Older Alyce in Glory Denied, Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, and others.
She has performed with organizations across the United States, including Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Omaha, Odyssey Opera, Haymarket Opera, Opera Festival of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theater, Kentucky Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Columbus, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Dayton Opera, Central City Opera, Resonance Works, Opera in The Heights, Salt Marsh Opera, Loft Opera, Opera Vermont, Winter Opera St. Louis, Raylynmor Opera, NY Choral Society, Lexington Philharmonic, and Erie Philharmonic.
Katy holds a Bachelor of Music from Simpson College and a Master of Music from the University of Missouri - Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance. An Iowa native, she now calls Chicago home.