Wagner as a Bridge: Singing Beyond Boundaries
Katherine Goforth will showcase her powerful, award-winning tenor voice in concert this spring! She is the first winner of the True Voice Competition for transgender and non-binary singers.
Katherine is undeterred by historical barriers in the performing arts and is finding new ways to show up authentically on stage, in the rehearsal room, and as a creative artist.
Tickets are $35 for non-members, $10 for students, and FREE for BWS members.
Program:
An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
“Deh vieni non tardar” from Le Nozze di Figaro, K. 492
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
“Embroidery Aria” from Peter Grimes
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
“Traft ihr das Schiff” from Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
~ Brief intermission ~
Selections from Wesendonck Lieder (5 Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme), WWV 91
1. Der Engel
4. Schmerzen
5. Träume
Songs from the German Revolution of 1848 and Vormärz
Das Blutgericht
Die Gedanken sind frei
Trotz alledem
Bürgerlied
Katherine is the recipient of Washington National Opera’s inaugural True Voice Award for transgender and non-binary singers and the Career Advancement Award from the fourth Dallas Symphony Orchestra Women in Classical Music Symposium. She won critical acclaim as part of the cast that premiered Philip Venables and Ted Huffman’s The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions at the Manchester International Festival, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and Bregenzer Festspiele. Based in Portland, OR, she has appeared extensively as a soloist with Pacific Northwest-based arts organizations, including Portland Opera, Bozeman Symphony, Walla Walla Symphony, Yakima Symphony, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Opera Bend, Opera Theater Oregon, Sound Salon (formerly Byron Schenkman and Friends), Artists Repertory Theatre, Fuse Theatre Ensemble, and Pink Martini.
Katherine was most recently part of the team that developed and produced Nu Nah-Hup: Sacajawea’s Story, a collaboration with Rose Ann Abrahamson, Sacajawea’s familial descendant, Hovia Edwards, Native American flutist, and Justin Ralls, composer and artistic director of Opera Theater Oregon, starring mezzo-soprano Marion Newman and baritone Richard Zeller. She has written for Opera Canada, and spoken at Boston Conservatory, Whitman College, and Renegade Opera.
Katherine was a member of the International Opera Studio of Oper Köln, received her Bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College, her Master’s degree from the Juilliard School, and attended the Franz-Schubert-Institut, Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, Heidelberger Frühling Liedakademie, Georg Solti Accademia, and Boston Wagner Institute.