MUSIC FROM POPLAR HILL

KATHRYN KRASOVEC, mezzo soprano

Concert on February 28, 2025
7:30PM

In February…

…the dazzling American mezzo soprano KATHRYN KRASOVEC will bring a program of classical operatic repertoire as well as more recent works by living composers to Music from Poplar Hill. We can’t wait to hear the sanctuary at historic St. George’s reverberating with her luminous, glorious sound!
A graduate of the Juilliard Opera Center and The San Francisco Opera’s Merola Young Artist Program, KATHRYN KRASOVEC has performed on such prominent stages as The Metropolitan Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, Weill Hall/Carnegie Hall, The National Theater of Prague and Theater Bremen in Germany and her career spans engagements throughout Europe, North America and the Middle East.
After winning The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, while becoming a member of The Juilliard Opéra Center, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as a Woodsprite in Rusalka, performed the roles of Blumenmädchen and Knappen in Parsifal and covered the role of Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Ms. Krasovec’s most recent performances include a world première of a one-woman monodrama The Echo Drift by Mikael Karlsson in the role of Walker Loats at The PROTOTYPE Festival in NYC.
Speaking fluent German, Ms Krasovec was engaged for five seasons in Germany and the Czech Republic. Three seasons were spent in a fest contract with Das Theater Trier and two seasons were filled with guest contracts at Theater Bremen and both The Prague State Opera and The National Theater of Prague.  Among her notable European accomplishments was the debut of Frid’s Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank in the role of Anne Frank.
She debuted in Carnegie’s Weill Hall in Mohammed Fairouz’s Audenesque as soloist with The Mimesis Ensemble and was soloist with The Oratorio Society of New Jersey in Handel’s Dettingen Te Deum and a work by Karl Jenkins, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace.
She made her Spoleto USA debut in Philip Glass’s Kepler and was recently engaged with Beth Morrison Productions of Missy Mazzoli’s, Song from the Uproar; and sang the role of Public Opinion in Offenbach’s Orfée aux Enfer with Light Opera of NJ.
Ms. Krasovec has recently returned to The Princeton Festival as Mrs. Sedley in Peter Grimes and Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro. She sang the world première of a Grammy Award winning piece called Peacemakers by James Aikman with The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra.
Ms. Krasovec was heard as soloist with The Princeton Baroque Festival Orchestra in the Bach Cantata BWV 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Lebenand was soloist with Voices Up! in a concert series showcasing new composers in New York City. She has collaborated with The AmericanOpera Projects and NYU Tisch School of The Arts as part of the New York OperaFest for three-seasons in premiering new works.
She has been heard as soloist in Berlioz’ Les Nuits d’été and Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles, Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Haydn’s Harmoniemesse, Mendelssohn’s Sinfonie Nr.2 “Lobgesang”, Elijah, Handel’s Messiah and Vivaldi’s Gloria and has sung concerts under the auspices of Choral Nova of Berkeley, CA, Norwalk Youth Symphony, Emerald City Opera and Staedtisches Orchester Trier. She appeared with American Opera Projects in And Death Shall Have No Dominion by Pete M. Wyer, a work celebrating the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas.
Ms. Krasovec sang Anne Frank with The Prague State Opera as well as being the first American to sing the title role in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and the British Dancing Girl in John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer at The National Theater of Prague. Ms. Krasovec later reprised the role of The Cunning Little Vixen at Theater Bremen.
Ms. Krasovec has made many role debuts including Siebel in Faust, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Carmen in La tragédie de Carmen, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel and Dorabella in Così fan tutte. Within the contemporary world she has debuted roles in The DeCameron, Blood Wedding, Korczak’s Orphans and Dinner and Delusion.
In addition to the international opera companies, her regional credits include The Princeton Festival, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Chautauqua Opera, Hawai’i Opera Theater, NYCO Vox, Center for Contemporary Opera, International Opera Theater, Emerald City Opera, Shreveport Opera and Western Plains Opera.
While at the Juilliard Opera Center, Ms. Krasovec was the recipient of the prestigious Juilliard DeRosa Grant. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Denver Lamont School of Music and her Master of Music Degree from the Indiana University Jacob school of music.