Soprano Kate Wood’s 2024/2025 season includes Fredrika & Mrs. Nordstrom cover in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music with St. Petersburg Opera, Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale with Quisisana, Bride cover in Menotti’s Labyrinth with Cambridge Chamber Ensemble, and creating the role of Chloris in Ted & Togo Productions’ adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Haunted Palace in its micro-operatic world premiere. In 2023, she was featured as Lucy in Menotti’s The Telephone with Angels Vocal Art, and Olympia in Pinocchio by John Davies and Oberto cover in Alcina by Handel, both with St. Petersburg Opera.
Ms. Wood “deployed her pure soprano with a goddess’s dignity” (Boston Musical Intelligencer) as Venus in John Blow’s rare baroque gem, Venus and Adonis with Cambridge Chamber Ensemble, and was seen as Mabel in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance with Marblehead Little Theatre in 2022. In 2021, she performed Madame Herz in Mozart's The Impresario with Winter Harbor Music Festival. A graduate of the New England Conservatory, Ms. Wood performed the roles of Tamiri in Il re pastore, Lady with a Hand Mirror in Postcard from Morocco, and excerpts from title roles in Theodora and Orfeo ed Euridice with NEC Opera Theatre. Other favorite opera roles include: La Fée in Cendrillon, Olympia in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Echo in All Wounds Bleed, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Morgana in Alcina, Gretel and Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Cynire in Echo et Narcisse, and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas.
As a soloist on the concert stage, Kate has most recently collaborated with Masterworks Chorale, Old South Church, and Coro Dante in performances of Vivaldi’s Gloria, Fauré’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Hear My Prayer, and Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominus. Other concert engagements include Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Magnificat, Mozart’s Missa Solemnis in C, as well as solo cantatas Mi palpita il cor (HWV 132b), Pensieri notturni di Filli (HWV 134), and Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (BWV 51). Also an alumna of Westminster Choir College, Kate has performed major works as a chorister with such leading orchestras as the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestra.
Garnering acclaim within the vocal competition circuit, Kate was named first place winner of The American Prize: Friedrich and Virginia Schorr Memorial Awards in Voice, awarded second place in MIOpera’s International Emerging Artist Competition, and granted third place in the New Hampshire Opera Idol competition all within 2024. Among other recent acknowledgements, she was a semi-finalist in Opera Tampa’s 2024 D’Angelo Young Artist Competition and Opera Mississippi's 2023 John Alexander Competition, and a finalist in CS Music’s 2021 Online Competition.