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Lyric soprano Katherine Scheaffer has recently been heard at Intimate Opera's Summer
Workshop in excerpts from Die Zauberflöte (Second Lady), The Abduction from the
Seraglio (Konstanze), Così fan Tutte (Despina), and L'elisir d'amore (Giannetta).
She began her career singing lyric mezzo repertoire such as the roles of Dorabella in Così
fan Tutte, Amahl in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Mrs. Frank in Yours, Anne, Marty in
Grease, and Edith in The Pirates of Penzance as well as opera excerpts from Lucia (Alisa)
Les Contes d’Hoffman (Nicklas), and Orfeo ed Euridice (Orfeo). Furthermore she has been
a member of the ensembles for Faust, Cabaret, Central City Opera’s World Premiere of
Poet Li Bai, Pippen, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Annie Get Your Gun, and West Side
Story.
Although Ms. Scheaffer has not performed the following roles, she has learned repertoire
for characters such as Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Marzelline (Fidelio), Siebel (Faust),
and Laetitia (The Old Maid and the Thief).
Ms. Scheaffer completed two years of Theater Studies at University of Denver before
switching into the Opera Department and is also comfortable speaking Italian at a
conversational level after classroom work and a semester studying music abroad in Milan,
Italy. She recently participated in Intimate Opera’s Summer Vocal Workshop where she
was privileged to work with conductor Kristof Van Gryspeer and director Mark Lamanna.
Furthermore, She has been fortunate to study voice with USC’s Professor Elizabeth Hynes
since the Fall of 2008. Ms. Scheaffer is very excited to be a part of Los Angeles
Metropolitan Opera’s La Traviata.
Workshop in excerpts from Die Zauberflöte (Second Lady), The Abduction from the
Seraglio (Konstanze), Così fan Tutte (Despina), and L'elisir d'amore (Giannetta).
She began her career singing lyric mezzo repertoire such as the roles of Dorabella in Così
fan Tutte, Amahl in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Mrs. Frank in Yours, Anne, Marty in
Grease, and Edith in The Pirates of Penzance as well as opera excerpts from Lucia (Alisa)
Les Contes d’Hoffman (Nicklas), and Orfeo ed Euridice (Orfeo). Furthermore she has been
a member of the ensembles for Faust, Cabaret, Central City Opera’s World Premiere of
Poet Li Bai, Pippen, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Annie Get Your Gun, and West Side
Story.
Although Ms. Scheaffer has not performed the following roles, she has learned repertoire
for characters such as Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Marzelline (Fidelio), Siebel (Faust),
and Laetitia (The Old Maid and the Thief).
Ms. Scheaffer completed two years of Theater Studies at University of Denver before
switching into the Opera Department and is also comfortable speaking Italian at a
conversational level after classroom work and a semester studying music abroad in Milan,
Italy. She recently participated in Intimate Opera’s Summer Vocal Workshop where she
was privileged to work with conductor Kristof Van Gryspeer and director Mark Lamanna.
Furthermore, She has been fortunate to study voice with USC’s Professor Elizabeth Hynes
since the Fall of 2008. Ms. Scheaffer is very excited to be a part of Los Angeles
Metropolitan Opera’s La Traviata.
KATHERINE SCHEAFFER, Soprano
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