Kate Morton
March 2024 Update-
Kate will be making her Opera Saratoga debut during their 2024 summer festival in their productions of Così fan tutte (Dorabella cover), Guys and Dolls, and a world premiere opera by composer-in-residence inti figgis-vizueta.
December 2023 Update-
This past summer, Kate was a pre-season artist. In this program, she performed as Stephano in Roméo et Juliette, Sor Andrea in With Blood With Ink, and in the ensemble of Fiddler on the Roof and A Little Night Music.
At the Juilliard School, Kate will perform as Estelle Oglethorpe (Cover) in Later the Same Evening, Javier Arrebola’s Liederabend December 12, Clerio in Erismena in February, and chorus in La Clemenza di Tito.
Kate Morton, mezzo-soprano, is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma.
Ms. Morton will be a Guest Artist with Mountain Time Arts Intermountain Opera Bozeman, performing at the "All Nations Teepee Village" in celebration of Yellowstone National Park's 150th anniversary.
Most recently she was an emerging artist with the Seagle Festival where she performed the roles of Queen Aggravain in Once Upon a Mattress, Suor Infermiera in Suor Angelica, and covered the role of Zita in Gianni Schicchi. She was also a guest artist with the Alexandria Summer Nights Music Festival and the Castleton Festival in their production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro as Cherubino. Morton has performed as a soloist with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic for the celebration of the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City.
Her other credits include Jo March in Adamo’s Little Women, Secretary in The Consul, Street Singer in Die Dreigroschenoper, Cinderella in Into the Woods, Third Spirit in Die Zauberflöte, and the Princess in The Snow Queen. In 2021 she was a guest artist with Intermountain Opera Bozeman in their Circle of Resilience Concert series which highlighted Native American classical composers and performers.
Kate Morton is the recipient of the 2021 Timothy Long Prize, as well as a recipient of the Cherokee Nation Trail of Tears Award for Excellence. Ms. Morton is a recent graduate of Oklahoma City University where she studied with Dr. William Nield Christensen, Jan McDaniel, and Joseph Fitzgerald. She received her Bachelor of Music degrees in Music Theater and Vocal Performance.
