Bio
Kathryn Lewek has established herself as one of this generation’s most thrilling coloratura sopranos. She has performed in The Magic Flute (The Queen of the Night) at The Metropolitan Opera a record-breaking sixty-four times, surpassing The Met’s record for the most performances of a role by a single artist. Kathryn has also brought her Queen to more than twenty-five companies in over 300 performances to date.
Kathryn continues to expand her range with role debuts in two classic operas in the 2024-25 Season. Singing opposite her husband, tenor Zach Borichevsky, in both productions, she performed in Nashville Opera’s season-opening staging of Carmen (Micaëla), and will make her house and role debut in Opera Colorado’s La bohème (Musetta). She will also revisit Mozart’s Queen of the Night in three productions of The Magic Flute.
Last season, Kathryn made two title role debuts: at Opéra de Nice in Lakmé and at Toledo Opera in Roméo et Juliette. She also appeared in Les contes d’Hoffmann at Dresden’s Semperoper (Olympia) and Florida’s Palm Beach Opera (the four heroines), and starred in The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera, Semperoper, and with the Cleveland Orchestra. At Salzburg’s 2024 Mozart Week Festival, she sang Mozart and Salieri in concert with the Vienna Philharmonic, and at Houston’s Rice University, she created the soprano role in the world premiere of Music for New Bodies, a DaCamera co-commission from Matthew Aucoin and Peter Sellars. As in previous years, she joined the Oratorio Society of New York for holiday performances of Handel’s Messiah at New York’s Carnegie Hall.
At the 2013 Operalia World Opera Competition, Kathryn took two top prizes, the highly competitive Audience Favorite Award among them. A graduate of the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in voice performance and literature, she lives in Connecticut with her husband and their two young children.