Japanese-American mezzo-soprano Kelsey Lauritano is an ensemble member of Oper Frankfurt, where her roles have ranged from Dorabella in Così fan tutte and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro to Suzuki in Madama Butterfly and Hannah in The Passenger. Among her most distinctive work there is Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, a staged Tchaikovsky Liederabend created by Christof Loy.
As a guest she has appeared at La Monnaie, Oper Zürich, the Bayerische Staatsoper München, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Heartbeat Opera in New York. She has worked with conductors and directors including Sebastian Weigle, Laurence Cummings, Marco Armiliato, Jonathan Stockhammer, Barrie Kosky, Damiano Michieletto, R.B. Schlather, Àlex Ollé and Hans Walter Richter.
On the concert platform she has sung with the Bayerisches Rundfunkorchester, Nürnberger Symphoniker, Oregon Symphony and New World Symphony, and at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl, Boston Early Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, New York Song Festival and Virginia Arts Festival.
Song is central to her musicianship: a graduate of The Juilliard School, she won the Marilyn Horne Song Competition at Music Academy of the West, and has taken prizes from the Metropolitan Opera National Council, the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition and the Gerda Lissner/Liederkranz Song Competition. She also won the Hal Leonard Musical Theater Competition and was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts in 2012.
