Kathleen Sonnentag

“Rich,” “Glorious,” “Enveloping,” “Lovely”. . . just a few adjectives that critics have used to describe Kathleen’s mezzo-soprano voice. As the recipient of the prestigious Eleanor Steber Award for Excellence in the Concert Field, Ms. Sonnentag is known for the beauty and sincerity she brings to her music. She has been heard in Handel’s Messiah in well over fifty performances from Chicago’s Orchestra Hall to Tokyo’s Hitomi Memorial Hall. A frequent soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, she has sung Bach’s Magnificat, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Bruckner’s Te Deum and Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, among others. She has sung with the Japan Shinsei Symphony in Mendelssohn’s Paulus, the Virginia Symphony in Mozart’s Requiem, the Dayton Philharmonic in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and numerous orchestras throughout the Midwest. She has sung recitals in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Florida, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Chile. Excelling in opera as well, she has sung the leading roles in Carmen, La Cenerentola, Hansel and Gretel, and The Marriage of Figaro. Opera News praised her as “vocally commanding” for her role of Maddalena in Rigoletto. Ms. Sonnentag was selected by Marilyn Horne to sing in her first master class series at Carnegie Hall in New York. She was the First Place winner of the district Metropolitan Opera Auditions and a finalist in the International Belvedere Competition in Vienna. Ms. Sonnentag is featured in a series of recordings released by the Hal Leonard Corporation and was appointed repertoire consultant for the Mezzo-Soprano Oratorio Anthology, published in 1994.