Katharine Goeldner (born Sigourney, Iowa) American mezzo-soprano singer.
Goeldner has sung much new music, and with flutist Amy Morris, co-founded the chamber trio The Prairie Song Project, which commissioned "Paradox," by the composer Peter Ash, with poetry by Willa Cather and "A Handful of Leaves," composed by Rory Boyle with texts by former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.
[1] A signature role is the Composer in the Richard Strauss opera Ariadne auf Naxos, which she has sung in Oviedo, Madrid, Salzburg, Toulouse, Lyon and at Paris's Châtelet.
At the Metropolitan Opera, Goeldner's roles have included Giovanna Seymour, (in Donizetti's Anna Bolena,), the Schoolboy in Lulu by Alban Berg, Cherubino (in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro), Ascanio (in Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini), Nicklausse (in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann), Prince Orlofsky (in Johann Strauss Jr's Die Fledermaus), Stéphano (in Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette), and the Page in Richard Strauss's Salome.
At the New York City Opera she appeared as Erika in Samuel Barber's Vanessa, Ruggiero in Handel's Alcina, Suzuki in Puccini's Madama Butterfly and in the title role of Bizet's Carmen, and was honored with New York City Opera's Betty Allen and Diva Awards.