The American mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey is one of the most sought-after singers in her voice type.
In the 2025/26 season she made her role debut as Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) under Alain Altinoglu at the Vienna State Opera and appeared in Tobias Kratzer’s staged production of Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben at the Hamburg State Opera. She also sang the title role in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride for Washington Concert Opera and Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
In concert she performed her programme Thousands of Miles at New York’s Carnegie Hall, gave a song recital with Helmut Deutsch at the Vienna Konzerthaus, appeared in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck at the Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh and gave a song recital at the New York Festival of Song. In summer 2026, prior to her performances in Salzburg as the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos) and with her recital programme Thousands of Miles, she has sung in Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ with the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana under Mark Elder in Valencia and in a concert with the Cuban-European Youth Orchestra under Thomas Hengelbrock at the Bologna Festival.
She made her debut at La Scala, Milan, in a double bill of Weill’s Mahagonny-Songspiel and Die sieben Todsünden, returning as Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) under Kirill Petrenko and as Adso
da Melk in the world premiere of Francesco Filidei’s Il nome della rosa. She has performed the title role in the world premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando, Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea), La Musica/Speranza (L’Orfeo) and Penelope (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria) at the Vienna State Opera, and appeared as Lee Miller in the world premiere of Maarten Seghers’s Lee Miller in Hitler’s Bathtub in the company’s new venue NEST. She has sung in more than 100 performances at the Metropolitan Opera, in roles including Cherubino, Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Annio (La clemenza di Tito), Zerlina (Don Giovianni), Muse/Nicklausse (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Nerone (Agrippina) and Idamante (Idomeneo).
Other appearances have included Offred in Poul Ruders’s The Handmaid’s Tale at the English National Opera, the title role of Miranda (featuring music by Henry Purcell and others) directed by Katie Mitchell at the Opéra Comique in Paris and Sister Helen in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Washington National Opera.
Her discography includes the albums Thousands of Miles with Baptiste Trotignon and Arianna and Tiranno with the ensemble Arcangelo under Jonathan Cohen, along with the 2025 album Samsara with Éric Le Sage, featuring Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben and Fauré’s Chanson d’Ève.
