Kathleen O’Mara
Soprano Kathleen O’Mara, 2024 Operalia Winner, Joins the Roster
We are thrilled to welcome Soprano Kathleen O’Mara to our roster for general management. She was recently awarded 1st Prize and the Birgit Nilsson Prize at the 2024 Operalia Competition. O’Mara is currently a member of LA Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program and is a 2024 recipient of the prestigious Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation.
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.
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.