Katherine DeYoung, praised for her "full-on vocal power and punch," hails from Traverse City, MI. and is a former member of the prestigious Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In the upcoming 2024/25 season, she will join The Metropolitan Opera to cover Unborn #5 and Unborn #6 in Die Frau ohne Schatten. Last season, she returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago, portraying The Mayor’s Wife in Jenůfa and covering the Marquise de Berkenfield in La fille du régiment.
 

In spring 2023, Katherine served as the Alto Soloist for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with both the Santa Fe Symphony and the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas. Fall 2023, she took on the title role of Hansel in Hansel and Gretel with Opera San Antonio and performed as Prince Orlofsky at Dayton Opera’s Season Opening Gala, featuring selections from Die Fledermaus. During the 2022/23 season at The Lyric, she portrayed Giovanna in Ernani, Mercédès in Carmen, and Sibyl in the world premiere of Proximity. Notably, in February 2023, Katherine stepped in on short notice to perform as Ragonde in Le Comte Ory at Opera Southwest.
Other notable highlights at The Lyric include; portrayed The Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte, participated in the Rising Stars Concert, and performed in the children’s opera The Magic Victrola.

 

In 2022, she returned to her alma mater, Michigan State University, to sing as the Mezzo-Soprano Soloist in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. Katherine is a 2019 Sullivan Award Winner from The William Matheus Sullivan Foundation and a 2021 Richard F. Gold Career Grant recipient from the Shoshana Foundation. She was a National Semifinalist in the 2024 and 2020 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. She was also a Semifinalist for the 2023 Paris Opera Competition. Katherine has also been an apprentice singer with the Santa Fe Opera (2018 and 2019) and was part of the Detroit Opera Studio from 2018 to 2020. She holds degrees from Michigan State University and the University of Houston.

Katherine is currently based in Chicago, IL.