Katharine Goeldner’s unique gifts have taken her to stages and concert platforms throughout the U.S. and Europe in an astonishing range of repertory. Katharine’s future and most recent projects include Diane Foley in the world premiere of Charlotte Bray’s American Mother (Theater Hagen), Geneviève in Pelléas and Mélisande (The Dallas Opera), Dalila in Samson et Dalila (Opera Colorado), Fricka in Die Walküre (Staatstheater Augsburg), Annina in Der Rosenkavalier (The Metropolitan Opera), Herodias in Salome (Minnesota Orchestra, Virginia Opera, Tulsa Opera, and the Fisher Center at Bard), Larina in Eugene Onegin (Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Detroit Opera, and Hawaii Opera Theater), Brigitta in Die tote Stadt (Toulouse and RTÉ Dublin), Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro (Dutch National Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago), Berio’s Folk Songs (Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg), and the Verdi Requiem (Jacksonville Symphony).

She has made a specialty of contemporary American opera, creating the roles of Iris Lev in Awakenings (Tobias Picker/Aryeh Lev Stollman), Peggy Ophuls in Shalimar the Clown (Jack Perla/Rajiv Joseph), Olga Arkhipova in Arkhipov (Peter Knell/Stephanie Fleischmann), Ma Joad in the revised version of The Grapes of Wrath (Ricky Ian Gordon/Michael Korie) and Jacqueline Onassis in JFK (David T. Little/Royce Vavrek).

Katharine lives in Salzburg, Austria.