In the 2024-2025 season, Ms. O’Mara will make debuts at The Metropolitan Opera in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Berta) and San Diego Opera in La bohème (Mimì). She will also be seen on the concert stage with the LA Philharmonic in excerpts from Carmen conducted by Gustavo Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl and with The Dallas Opera for their annual Holiday Concert.

She made her LA Opera debut in the fall of 2023 in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Berta) and was also seen in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg (Erste Zofe) conducted by James Conlon. In the summer of 2024, she was a Gaddes Festival Artist with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where she made her OTSL debut in Galileo Galilei (Duchess Christina) by Philip Glass.

Kathleen won a Career Grant Award from the Sullivan Foundation in 2023 and was a 2022 winner of the Bizet Award at the Orpheus Vocal Competition. She has participated in programs including the Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Palm Beach Opera’s Apprentice Program, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artist Vocal Academy, CoOPERAtive, and Music Academy of the West. She received a Masters in Music from the Juilliard School, a Bachelors of Music from Westminster Choir College, and is a native of Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

SEPTEMBER 2024