Kathryn Day (née Bouleyn, born May 3, 1947)[1] is an American opera singer who has had an active international career spanning five decades.
In the 1990s Day transitioned to leading mezzo-soprano roles with the aid of companies like the Seattle Opera and the Opéra de Montréal.
[6] She later returned to San Diego as Ninetta in The Love for Three Oranges (1978), Nanetta in Falstaff (1978), Tatiana in Eugene Onegin (1985) and Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro (1986).
[2][6] In 1977 she made her debut at the San Francisco Opera (SFO) as Bubikopf in Viktor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis.
[10][11] In December 1979 she was soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah with Musica Sacra under conductor Richard Westenburg at Lincoln Center.
[21] In 1983 she sang Tatyana to Thomas Allen's Eugene Onegin at Festival Ottawa in Canada's National Arts Centre, and in 1984 she was Mimi to Tonio di Paolo's Rodolfo at the Canadian Opera Company.
[24] In 1987 she returned to the NYCO as Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana and made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito.
[2] She has returned to Seattle many times since, portraying such roles as Giulietta in The Tales of Hoffmann (1990), Leonore in Fidelio (1991), Ortrud in Lohengrin (1994), Azucenna in Il trovatore (1997), and Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera (2002).
[28][29] In 1999 she appeared at the Opéra de Montréal as Herodias in Richard Strauss' Salome[30] and as Madelon in Andrea Chénier at the Baltimore Opera.
In 2005 she appeared at Opera Boston as Goody Proctor in Robert Ward's The Crucible and returned to the Spoleto Festival as The green fairy in Respighi's La bella dormente nel bosco.
[44] In 2014 she performed the role of Bronka in Mieczysław Weinberg's The Passenger under conductor Patrick Summers at the Houston Grand Opera.