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Kelly Kaduce
is swiftly gaining national recognition for her "plangent, amber-toned soprano,
glamour girl looks and artless, affecting dramatic style." (Opera News)
Ms. Kaduce
has garnered thunderous praise for her stage portrayals, most recently for her
star-making turn in Lee
Blakeley's production of Madame Butterfly at Santa Fe Opera.
The Huffington Post called it "a performance to treasure" and
the Santa Fe New Mexican stated "Soprano Kelly Kaduce, as Cio-Cio-San
(the "Madame Butterfly" of the title), stood at the head of the cast
in every way. Her singing, never less than impressive, assumed
mounting intensity as the evening unfurled. " Starting the 2011-2012 season Kelly Kaduce will reprise three roles which she is making her own: Nedda in I Pagliacci with Arizona Opera, followed with a house debut at Opéra de Montreal in their company premiere of Rusalka and Madame Butterfly with Portland and Minnesota Opera. Kaduce adds a new role to her repertoire with Pat Nixon in Adam's Nixon in China with Eugene Opera.
In the 2010-2011 season Ms. Kaduce sang her acclaimed portrayal of Violetta in La Traviata for the first time in the US with Tulsa Opera. The Tulsa World stated "And speaking of perfection, it was embodied in the performance of soprano Kelly Kaduce, making her Tulsa Opera debut as Violetta. People, you have got to hear this lady sing. Kaduce's voice is full and rich, unusually powerful but always maintaining a caramel-like sweetness - her high notes were ringingly clear, without so much as a hint of shrillness or effort. Even better, she can use all that fullness, all the power, all that sweetness in the most expressive ways." She followed this success with performances of Mimi in La Boheme, a role that has become a calling card for Ms. Kaduce, with Michigan Opera Theater. The New Year saw her as Rusalka for Opera Colorado in Eric Simonson's production.
Ms. Kaduce's 2009-2010 season included a return to her signature role of Mimi in La Bohème with Portland Opera; her role debut of Nedda in I Pagliacci with Opera Omaha, Teatro Municipal de Santigo in Chile and Florida Grand Opera; the title role in Suor Angelica, also with Florida Grand Opera; Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with Michigan Opera Theatre and the East Coast premiere of Tan Dun's Tea: A Mirror of Soul with Opera Company of Philadelphia, singing the role of Princess Lan. She will open the Santa Fe Opera's 54th season in a new production of Madama Butterfly in the summer of 2010.
The 2008-09 season was a season of firsts for Ms. Kaduce who essayed five new roles to her growing gallery of heroines. She made her Kentucky Opera debut as Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, with returns to Malmö Opera, where she has become a house favorite, as Violetta in La Traviata, Florida Grand Opera as Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in the title role of Salome in its very first production at that house and sang in an evening of arias by Verdi and Puccini with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Her 2007-08 season included her debut with Opera Pacific in her signature role of Mimì in La Bohème paced by Maestro Eduardo Müller, and her returns to Malmö Opera as Marguerite in Faust, to Minnesota Opera in her first assumption of the title role in Rusalka, and to Opera Theatre of St. Louis in the title role of Madame Butterfly. In recital, she performs at St. Olaf College and (with baritone Lee Gregory) at Bates College and will present a Vocal Master Class at San Diego State University. Over the summer, Kaduce made her Latin American debut at the famed Teatro Municipal de Santigo in Chile as Suor Angelica.
Kelly Kaduce began the 2006-2007 season with a reprise of her touching Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly for Boston Lyric Opera and starred in two world premiere productions. Minnesota Opera welcomed her as Rosasharn in Ricky Ian Gordon's The Grapes of Wrath, the world premiere recording of which is now available on the PS Classics label. This was followed by the title role in Anna Karenina for Florida Grand Opera. The production moved to Opera Theater of St. Louis in Summer of 2007. A live recording during its run at Opera Theater of St. Louis is now available on the Signum Classics label. Entertainment News averred, "In a career making role, Kelly Kaduce dominates the stage. With high notes that thrill and a creamy middle range, this gifted young soprano delivers vocal velvet. But she is also a great singing actress. Kaduce brings Anna’s passion and tragedy vividly alive. Her death scene weaves a dramatic display of vocal colors and intense theatricality. This is an authentically great performance." Kaduce made her official European operatic debut at Sweden's Malmö Opera och Musikteatre as Mimi in La Bohème in December, followed by a New Year's Eve Gala performance with Florida Grand Opera. In the summer of 2007, Kelly Kaduce sang the role of Princess Lan in the American premiere of Tan Dun's Tea: A Mirror of Soul in a re-engagement with Santa Fe Opera and also appeared in recital with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival performing works by Berg, Kander, Honegger, Turina, Gordon and Granados with Robert Tweten at the piano.
The 2005-2006 season offered three role debuts for the young American soprano. She began the season with her acclaimed portrayal of Marguerite for Nashville Opera’s Faust, which she has also performed with Florida Grand Opera and Austin Lyric Opera; and then essayed her first Susannah by Floyd, for her Orlando Opera debut. She then reprised Caroline Gaines for the East Coast premiere of Margaret Garner with Opera Company of Philadelphia, followed by a return engagement at New York City Opera as the ill-fated seamstress in La Bohème. In May, Ms. Kaduce triumphed in her first performances of Thaïs in her company debut with Boston Lyric Opera. Opera News stated, "Kelly Kaduce's Boston Lyric Opera debut as Thaïs in the company's season finale could be considered a glorious example of perfect casting. Sounding and looking the part of the courtesan driven by impulses of flesh and spirit, Kaduce was a luminous, affecting presence. She sings with bell-like purity and silvery sweetness, and she suspends her legato with an effortless, sensual spin. A better performance of this role would be hard to imagine." Opera Theater of St. Louis engaged her for the American Premiere of Michael Berkeley’s Jane Eyre directed by Colin Graham and paced by Andreas Mitisek.
Kelly Kaduce's engagements in the 2004-05 season included her return to Minnesota Opera to sing her first performances of Cio-Cio-San in the original version of Madama Butterfly directed by Colin Graham. She welcomed the spring with performances of Micaëla in Carmen with Nashville Opera immediately followed by the world premiere of Richard Danielpour and Toni Morrison’s Margaret Garner as Caroline Gaines at Michigan Opera Theater. She then summered at the Bard Music Festival's Summerscape as Birdie in Regina, under the baton of Leon Botstein.
In the 2003-04 season, Ms. Kaduce’s operatic roles included Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with Florida Grand Opera. She headlined in the Los Angeles production of Baz Luhrmann's La Bohème as Mimì, and followed that with a riveting portrayal of the title role in Suor Angelica with Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Of those performances Opera News stated "Kelly Kaduce brought uncommonly expressive tone and emotional eloquence to the title role; in the final scenes, the audience was gripped by the shocking realism of Kaduce’s portrayal, as Sister Angelica lives through hallucinations and spiritual torment to achieve salvation." Ms. Kaduce also appeared as soloist in Britten's War Requiem and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Boston University Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall. She made her Santa Fe Opera debut as The Chinese Actress and ZhiZhen in the world premiere of Bright Sheng’s Madame Mao in the Summer of 2003.
Other past
highlights for Ms. Kaduce include her New York City Opera debut in
2002 as Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel
a role she has also sung with Opera Colorado,
and her first
performances of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with
Atlanta Opera. Among Kelly Kaduce's additional
concert credits are Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Barber's Prayers of
Kierkegaard, Berg's Seven Early Songs, and Argento's
Casa Guidi. She has also appeared with the Florida Philharmonic
Orchestra as soloist in Beethoven's Egmont.
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