Kelly Curtin, soprano

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Opera & Musical Theater

Mabel	The Pirates of Penzance	Opera Today!	2026
Olympia	Pinocchio	St. Petersburg Opera	2025
Violetta	La Traviata	Aria Club of Washington DC	2025
Soprano Soloist	First Fridays @ Boordy Vineyards	Maryland Opera	2025
Adele	Die Fledermaus	Washington Opera Society	2025
Frasquita	Carmen	Washington Opera Society	2025
Mabel	The Pirates of Penzance	Romes Shakespeare Festival & Rome Symphony Orchestra	2025
Soprano Soloist (Jump-in)	Handel's Messiah	Baltimore Basilica Festival Orchestra (Ed Polochick, Conductor)	2024
Despina	Così fan tutti	Shreveport Opera	2024
Clorinda	La Cenerentola	Bel Cantanti Opera	2023
Die Königin der Nacht	Die Zauberflöte	Washington Opera Society	2022
Marie	La Fille du Régiment	St. Pete Opera	2022
Despina	Così fan tutte	St. Pete Opera	2021
Mimi	La Bohème	Private Performance	2021
Senator Patrick Leahy	Gonzales Cantata	In Series Opera Invision Opera House	2020
Micaëla	Le cabaret de Carmen	In Series	2020
Sophie	The Devil's Rider (Kalman)	Ohio Light Opera	2019
Mabel	The Pirates of Penzance	Ohio Light Opera	2019
La Ciesca, Prima Cercatrice	Gianni Schicchi/Suor Angelica	St. Pete Opera	2019
Galatea	The Beautiful Galatea (von Suppé)	Bel Cantanti Opera	2018
Zerlina	Don Giovanni	St. Pete Opera	2018
Fiordiligi	Così fan tutte	Oswald Summer Opera	2018
Josephine; Veronica; Emma	The Name on the Door; The Female Stranger; What Gets Kept	DC Fringe Festival	2018
Josephine	HMS Pinafore	Opéra Louisiane	2018
Tisbe	Piramo e Tisbe	Little Opera Theater New York	2018
Erste Dame	Die Zauberflöte	St. Pete Opera	2018
Die Königin der Nacht	Die Zauberflöte	Bel Cantanti Opera	2017
The Queen of the Night	The Magic Flute	Shreveport Opera	2017
The Queen of the Night	The Magic Flute	The In Series	2017
Olympia	Les Contes d'Hoffmann	St. Pete Opera	2017

Concert

Sing-along Messiah	St. James Parish, Lothian MD	2025
Brahms Requiem	Helena Symphony	2025
Over the Top!" (A Concert Celebrating Coloratura)	Opéra Louisiane	2025
Vivaldi's Gloria and Forrest's Jubilate Deo	MidAmerica Productions at Carnegie Hall	2025
Handel’s Messiah	Baltimore Basilica Festival Orchestra	2024
Handel’s Messiah	Helena Symphony	2024
Encore!	Princess Cruises	2023
First Fridays @ Boordy Vineyards	Maryland Opera	2022
Gjielo's Dreamweaver	CoroAllegro (Delaware)	2021
Cancelled: J.C. Bach's Gloria in G Major; w E4	Helena Symphony	2020
A Soprano Gone Mad	St. Pete Opera	2020
Messiah	Helena Symphony	2017

Education & Training

Manhattan School of Music M.M. Classical Voice Performance
University of Delaware B.M. Vocal Performance
Shreveport Opera Resident Artist
Opera on the Avalon
Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum
Colorado College Vocal Arts Symposium
"Creating the Dramatic Character for Opera" with Lauren Flanigan
Académie Internationale d’Été Technique/Interpretation Summer

Voice Teacher: Mark Oswald
Vocal Coaches: Joy Schrier, Doug Han, Giovanni Reggioli, Robert Wood, Stephanie Rhodes, Jerome Shannon, Michael Ching, Jeffrey Miller, LeAnn Overton, Carrie-Anne Matheson, Kathryn LaBouff, Ken Merrill, Elizabeth Hastings, Glenn Morton, Ken Cooper
Directors: Jessica Burton, Adam Cioffari, Helena Binder, Karl Hesser, Ian Silverman, Ted Christopher, Catrin Davies, Dashiell Waterbury, Helen Aberger, Michael Unger, Tim Nelson, Dean Anthony, Ned Canty, Daniel Helfgot, Rob Herriot, Leon Major, James Harp, Marciem Bazell, Lee Kimball, Christopher Roselli
Conductors: Allan R. Scott, Michael Borowitz, Joe Illick, Heather Adelsberger, Mark Sforzini, Jeff Dokken, Alex Arellano, Stanley Thurston, Jerome Shannon, Michael Barrett, Steven Mosteller, Judith Yan, John Yaffé, Brian Stone, Chris Crans, Ken Merrill

Awards & Honors

* indicates role performed

Bizet	Carmen	Micaëla, Frasquita
Britten	Albert Herring	Miss Wordsworth*
Donizetti	Don Pasquale	Norina
Donizetti	La Fille du Régiment	Marie*
Donizetti	L'Elisir d'Amore	Adina
Donizetti	Lucia di Lammermoor	Lucia
Gounod	Roméo et Juliette	Juliette
J. Strauss	Die Fledermaus	Adele*
Lehar	The Merry Widow	Valencienne*
Massenet	Manon	Manon, Poussette*
Mozart	Cosi fan tutte	Fiordiligi, Despina
Mozart	Die Entführung aus dem Serail	Konstanze, Blonde
Mozart	Die Zauberflöte	Königin der Nacht, Pamina, Papagena
Mozart	Don Giovanni	Donna Anna, Zerlina
Musto	Later the Same Evening	Valentina*
Offenbach	Les Contes d'Hoffmann	*Olympia, The Four Heroines**
Offenbach	Orfee aux Enfers	Eurydice*
Puccini	La Bohème	*Mimì, Musetta**
Rossini	Il barbiere di Siviglia	Rosina
Rossini	La Cenerentola	Clorinda*
Strauss	Ariadne auf Naxos	Zerbinetta
Strauss	Der Rosenkavalier	Sophie
Sullivan	HMS Pinafore	Josephine*
Sullivan	The Mikado	Yum-Yum*
Sullivan	The Pirates of Penzance	Mabel*
Verdi	Falstaff	Nannetta
Verdi	La Traviata	Violetta*
Verdi	Rigoletto	Gilda
Weill	Street Scene	Rose *

Suggested Oratorio Repertory

* indicates piece performed

Brahms	Requiem*
C Minor Mass	Mozart
Fauré	Requiem*
Handel	Messiah*
Haydn	Lord Nelson Mass*
Matthews	Missa Brevis
Orff	Carmina Burana
Saint-Saëns	Christmas Oratorio *
Vivaldi	Gloria *

Next Engagements

Dec 2025

Soprano Soloist

Händel’s Messiah

Accord Symphony

Dec 2025

Soprano Soloist

Sing-along Messiah

St. James Parish, Lothian MD

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Recent Press

Tisbe in Piramo e Tisbe

Stephen Jude Tietjen, Opera News

The three artists singing on March 24 each gave indelible performances that should count among the finest and most complete interpretations heard in New York this season...As Tisbe, Kelly Curtin sang with a crystal- clear soprano that was as round and full at the very bottom of her range as it was in some expertly executed stratospheric embellishments. Both she and Gorstein surrendered themselves completely to the physicality of their roles.

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