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Katie Fraser, mezzo-soprano

Mezzo-soprano Katie Fraser is a recent graduate of the University of British Columbia in Opera Performance, having studied under the direction of Krisztina Szabó, Heidi Melton and Rhoslyn Jones. Katie is currently completing her diploma in Opera Performance under the tutelage of Nancy Hermiston. Highlights in her career to this point include a featured soloist in a kids series with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the singer for the General Sir Arthur Currie Award Gala for Valour Canada alongside the King’s Own Regimental Band and the Calgary Highlanders. Katie is a recent recipient of a bursary from the Toni and Hildegard Cavelti Fund Foundation as well as the "Young Talent in Opera" bursary from the Vancouver Opera Guild. Past credits include Frau Reich in Nicolai’s Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Jezibaba in Dvorak’s Rusalka, the Tree Spirit in Shadow Catch, Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Tessa in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Gondoliers, Julia Bertram in Dove’s Mansfield Park, Modestina in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims, Vlasta in Weinberg’s Pasażerka and Second Spirit in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with the UBC Opera Ensemble. Katie is excited to be singing chorus in Vancouver Opera’s current production of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman and to be attending the Canadian Opera Company Summer Intensive this upcoming August.