Kathleen Kuhlmann (Mezzo-soprano)

Born: 1950 - USA ?

The mezzo-soprano, Kathleen Kuhlmann, made her debut in 1979 at the Lyric Opera in Chicago; her European debut followed in 1980 at the Cologne opera; 1982 she made her debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in George Frideric Handel’s Semele; the La Scala in Milan, the Glyndebourne Festival (title role in Rossini’s La Cenerentola), which was followed by the Salzburg Festival and the Metropolitan Opera.

Since that time Kathleen Kuhlmann appeared in Munich, Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Essen, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Vienna, Barcelona, Bilbao, Naples, Parma, Pesaro, Genua, Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris and Toulouse; and also in Sydney, Montreal and San Francisco. She sang G.F. Handel’s Xerxes in Chicago, Munich and Cologne, Giulio Cesare in Munich, Paris, Bordeaux and Rome; Semele (the role of Juno) in Aix-en-Provence and Cologne Opera House, Alcina in Chicago and Paris; she gave L'italiana in Algeri in Dresden. She also sang Mistress Quickly in Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff at the Cologne Opera House.

On the concert stage she appeared among other things with the Amsterdam Bach Soloists, the Berliner Symphoniker, and could be heard with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin and Radio Symphony Orchestra Leipzig.

Future engagements include a new production of Falstaff at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and at the Santa Fe Opera.

Source: Bühnen der Stadt Köln Website, English translation by Aryeh Oron; Ruud Janssen (February 2006)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (April 2002)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Armin Brunner

Alto

BWV 245

William Christie

Mezzo

G.F. Handel: Opera Alcina, HWV 34 [Bradamante] x 2

Richard Hickox

Mezzo

G.F. Handel: Opera Alcina, HWV 34 [Bradamante]

Links to other Sites

Biographie - Kathleen Kuhlmann (Bühnen der Stadt Köln) [German]

Kuhlmann , Kathleen (Opera Base)
Kathleen Kuhlmann [German]