The mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey combines vocal excellence with dramatic intensity, and is regularly invited to perform at the most prestigious opera houses and festivals, among them the Metropolitan Opera, New York, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Vienna and Bavarian State Operas, the Salzburg Festival, the Glyndebourne Festival and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
In the 2024/25 season she sang Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) under Kirill Petrenko at La Scala, Milan, where she also returned as Adso da Melk in the acclaimed world premiere of Francesco Filidei’s Il nome della rosa. She sang Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel) at Covent Garden and the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Charlotte (Werther) at the Vienna State Opera, where she also appeared at the company’s new venue NEST as Lee Miller in the world premiere of Maarten Seghers’s Lee Miller in Hitler’s Bathtub, in a production by Jan Lauwers. Together with Rolando Villazón she presented the opera programme Amore e Follia at the Festival of Nations in Bad Wörishofen, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Vienna Konzerthaus and in Prague and Zlín. She closed the season with her celebrated recital programme Thousands of Miles at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg.
Recent career highlights have also included her debut at La Scala in a Weill double-bill of Mahagonny-Songspiel and Die sieben Todsünden and the title role in the world premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando at the Vienna State Opera, where she has also appeared in new productions as Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea), La Musica and La Speranza (L’Orfeo), Penelope (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) and Despina (Così fan tutte). She has appeared more than 100 times at the Met, in roles including Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Annio (La clemenza di Tito), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Hänsel, Muse/Nicklausse (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Nerone (Agrippina) and, most recently, Idamante (Idomeneo). She sang Offred in a new production of Poul Ruders’s The Handmaid’s Tale at the English National Opera, the title role of Miranda (with music by Purcell and others) in Katie Mitchell’s production under Raphaël Pichon at the Opéra Comique in Paris, and Sister Helen in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Washington National Opera. Her most recent Salzburg Festival appearance was in 2024 as Offenbach’s Muse / Nicklausse.
Kate Lindsey appears in concert with leading orchestras. She has worked with conductors including Harry Bicket, James Conlon, Vladimir Jurowski, Pablo Heras-Casado, James Levine, David Robertson, William Christie, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Thomas Guggeis, Philippe Jordan, Kent Nagano, Teodor Currentzis, Thomas Hengelbrock and Franz Welser-Möst.
Her discography includes the albums Thousands of Miles with Baptiste Trotignon and Arianna and Tiranno with the ensemble Arcangelo under Jonathan Cohen.
