Other recent successes include The Woman in Schoenberg’s Erwartung in a return to New York City Opera Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana with Kentucky Opera the title role in Tosca with Opera on the James and an appearance as soloist in Dvorák’s Te Deum with the Cincinnati May Festival. Recent engagements include her return to Sarasota Opera in the title role of Vanessa, her debut with Opera New Jersey as Tosca, joining the roster of Santa Fe Opera for Tosca, soloist with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra in excerpts from Collins’ Daughter of the South, with Quad City Symphony as The Marschallin in excerpts from Der Rosenkavalier, at the Ravinia Festival under James Conlon in Rachmaninoff’s The Bells.

4, Mozart’s A questo seno deh vieni, and Beethoven’s Ah, perfido. Her 2012-13 season engagements included singing the title role in Tosca in a return to Kentucky Opera, in her debut with Portland Opera, and with Pensacola Opera the role of Becky Felderman in Ricky Ian Gordon’s Morning Star with Cincinnati Opera Sieglinde in a staged presentation of Act I of Die Walküre with Dayton Opera Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana with Opera Delaware Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle with Opera Omaha and returning to Peoria Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. Last year’s engagements included debuts with Atlanta Opera and Florida Grand Opera as Tosca, a return to Dayton Opera as Tosca, and her first appearance in concert with the Cincinnati Pops. Kara Shay Thomson opens her 2014-15 as Leonore in Fidelio with Kentucky Opera, debuts with New Millenium Orchestra as Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle, returns to Sarasota Opera as Tosca, and follows up last year’s debut with Florida Grand Opera as Magda in The Consul.

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