Mezzo-soprano KATE BUTLER has established herself as a singing artist both in the United States and abroad. Her professional career began with performances at the Chautauqua Opera Festival and continued with performances at Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera, Dallas Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, San Diego Opera, Opera Pacific, Orlando Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Cleveland Opera, Sacramento Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, Long Beach Opera, Nevada Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera and Opera Ensemble of New York. She was the leading mezzo-soprano with the Bremen Opera in Germany for 6 years, where she sang Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Cherubino in Nozze di Figaro, Romeo in I Capuleti, Dorabella in Così fan Tutte, Orfeo in Orfeo, David in Saul and other roles. Ms. Butler has appeared as guest artist with the Teatro di Pisa as Romeo in I Capuleti and with the Stadttheater Bern as Charlotte in Werther. For her performances of Dorabella in Così fan Tutte in France at the Strasbourg Festival and the Vichy Opera, she was awarded the Mèdaille de la Règion de lèAuvergne by former President of France, Valery Giscard dèEstaing.

Ms. Butler was personally selected by composer Gian Carlo Menotti to portray the role of The Secretary in The Consul under his direction for productions at Chicago Opera Theatre, Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Connecticut Grand Opera, Mississippi Opera, and the Edinburgh Festival.

Solo concert appearances include the Brooklyn Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Chicago's Grant Park Symphony, Columbus Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, The Juilliard Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Basel Chamber Orchestra at the Zurich Tonhalle, the New York City Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, Lincoln Symphony, the Oxford City Orchestra at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, UK, Cambridge University, UK and at Carnegie Hall.

In addition to receiving the Mèdaille de la Règion de lèAuvergne, Ms. Butler has been awarded the NIMT George London Award, was twice a finalist in the Eleanor Steber Vocal Competition, was a Midwest Regional Winner for the Metropolitan Opera Auditions and a Regional Winner and recipient of the Levy Award for the San Francisco Opera Auditions. Ms. Butler received her B. M. and M. M. in Vocal Performance from Louisiana State University, was a scholarship student in the Professional Studies Program at The Julliard School and studied as a Doctoral Fellow at Indiana University. Ms. Butler has taught at California State University at San Bernardino and Oklahoma State University. She is presently Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

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