Maria Kate Fleming (Coloratura Soubrette Soprano)
made her Manhattan debut this past November at Symphony Space,
joining with After Dinner Opera to showcase Jordan Farrar’s new opera
The Day Boy and The Night Girl. Ms. Fleming, a small-town Mississippi
girl turned “stage animal,” debuted with New Orleans Opera in 2005
as Sylviane in The Merry Widow. While attending Loyola University
New Orleans, she entertained sold-out audiences as the title role in
Lakmé, Angelina in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, and Queen of
the Night in The Magic Flute.
After moving to Baltimore to attend the Peabody Conservatory of
Music, Maria Kate recreated her role as Queen of the Night with
Peabody’s outreach opera program. Other roles include Olympia in
Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Sophie in a concertized version of Strauss’s Der
Rosenkavalier (Peabody), and Adele (Die Fledermaus) in the 2007
AIMS Opernabend Konzert in Frohnleiten, Austria.
In April 2008, Maria Kate delivered a provocative performance of
Cupid as she sang and danced in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the
Underworld with Opera Vivente in Baltimore. She appears with Opera
Vivente again in The Coronation of Poppea in 2009. Also in the spring,
Maria Kate will premiere a song cycle written for her by Peabody
Conservatory composer Lonnie Hevia. Now having a relatively
permanent address in New York City, Maria Kate sings with Holy Trinity
Choir on the Upper East Side.
This season with Opera Manhattan, Ms. Fleming will perform the role of
Sally (Ida) in their new production of Die Fledermaus.
made her Manhattan debut this past November at Symphony Space,
joining with After Dinner Opera to showcase Jordan Farrar’s new opera
The Day Boy and The Night Girl. Ms. Fleming, a small-town Mississippi
girl turned “stage animal,” debuted with New Orleans Opera in 2005
as Sylviane in The Merry Widow. While attending Loyola University
New Orleans, she entertained sold-out audiences as the title role in
Lakmé, Angelina in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, and Queen of
the Night in The Magic Flute.
After moving to Baltimore to attend the Peabody Conservatory of
Music, Maria Kate recreated her role as Queen of the Night with
Peabody’s outreach opera program. Other roles include Olympia in
Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Sophie in a concertized version of Strauss’s Der
Rosenkavalier (Peabody), and Adele (Die Fledermaus) in the 2007
AIMS Opernabend Konzert in Frohnleiten, Austria.
In April 2008, Maria Kate delivered a provocative performance of
Cupid as she sang and danced in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the
Underworld with Opera Vivente in Baltimore. She appears with Opera
Vivente again in The Coronation of Poppea in 2009. Also in the spring,
Maria Kate will premiere a song cycle written for her by Peabody
Conservatory composer Lonnie Hevia. Now having a relatively
permanent address in New York City, Maria Kate sings with Holy Trinity
Choir on the Upper East Side.
This season with Opera Manhattan, Ms. Fleming will perform the role of
Sally (Ida) in their new production of Die Fledermaus.
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