Katrena Mitchell

Vocal range: G3 to F6 (almost three octaves).

Katrena Mitchell possesses an unusual and beautiful timbre - a true soprano voice but with a dark and transparent quality that is naturally plangent. Because of its dark colour, her voice is sometimes mistaken for that of a mezzo-soprano, but the high range of her voice and the ease of the upper notes, as well as the comfort zone for her voice, make it clear that her tessitura is soprano.

Her voice lends itself to more dramatic lyric roles, yet is perfectly adept in bel canto and early music. Her coloratura has become well practised in tackling the death-defying intricacies of some of Mozart's more staggering soprano-soprano duets and the entire œuvre of Renaissance and baroque masterpieces written for equal voice of superb vocal control.

Italian Arias

Bellini

La sonnambula – Ah! non credea mirarti … An non giunge
Norma – Casta diva ; duet with Adalgisa (She has sung both Norma and Adalgisa)
I Capuleti ed i Montecchi - Eccomi ... Oh quante volte
Bianca e Fernando – Sorgi, o padre

Boito

Mefistofele – L’altra notte in fond al mare

Catalani

La Wally – Ebben! Ne andro lontana

Cilea

Adriana Lecouvreur – Io son l’imile ancella ; Poveri fiori

Donizetti

Lucia di Lammermoor – Regnava nel silenzio
Anna Bolena – duet scene between Anna and Giovanna

Giordano

Andrea Chenier – La mamma morta

Handel

Giulio Cesare – Cleopatra’s and Sesto’s arias
Alcina – Alcina’s arias ;
Rinaldo - Cara sposa ; Lascia ch'io pianga
Serse - Ombra mai fu ; Va godendo
Further arias and duets from various operas

Mascagni

Cavalleria Rusticana – Voi lo sapete oh mama

Mozart

Le Nozze di Figaro - the role of Countess Almaviva ; Susanna’s and Cherubino’s arias
Mitridate re di Ponte – Sifare / Aspasia duet
Così fan tutte - Despina & Fiordiligi's duets ; Fiordiligi’s arias
Don Giovanni - The role of Donna Elvira ; Donna Anna’s & Zerlina’s arias
Idomeneo - Ilia's arias & Elettra's arias
Il Re Pastore (Most of the soprano arias & duets for both Aminta & Elisa)
Die Entfuhrung as dem Serail – Constanza’s arias
Lucio Silla – Pupille amate
La Clemenza di Tito – Saltro che lagrime ; Parto ; Vitellia’s arias
Mozart concert arias – Ah lo privedi

Ponchielli

Gioconda – Suicidio

Puccini

La Bohème – Si, mi chiamano Mimi ; Donde lieta ; Quando men vo
Manon Lescaut - In quelle trine morbide
Gianni Schicchi - O mio babbino caro
Turandot - Signore, ascolta! ; Tu che di gel sei chinta ; In questa reggia
Tosca - Vissi d'Arte
La Rondine – Che il bel sogno di Doretta

Rossini

Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Una voce poco fà
L'Assedio di Corinto - Giusto ciel!
Semiramide - Bel raggio ; duets between Semiramide and Arsace
Guillaume Tell – Selva opaca

Verdi

La Traviata – Labiamo (Brindisi) ; Ah, forse e lui ; Addio del passato
Rigoletto - Quartet
Un ballo in maschera - Morro, ma prima in grazia ; Ecco l’orrido campo
Otello – Piangea cantando (Willow song) ; Ave Maria
Il Trovatore - Tacea la notte placida ; Timor di me?…D’amour sull’ali rosee
Don Carlo – Tu che le vanita ; Eboli’s aria
Ernarni – Surta è la notte… Ernani! Ernani, involami
I Vespri Siciliani – Mercé, dilette amiche (Bolero)
La Forza del destino – Madre, pietosa Vergine ; Pace, pace, mio Dio ; Monastery scene

Vivaldi

Il Bajazet - Sposa son disprezzata
Echo aria
Various other arias and duets from both opera and sacred works

French Operatic Repertoire

Bizet

Carmen – Micaëla's aria ; Card scene
The Pearlfishers – Comme autrefois (Leila’s aria)

Charpentier

Louise – Depuis le jour

Delibes

Lakmè – Flower duet

Gluck

Alceste – Divinites du Styx
Iphigénie en Tauride – O malheureuse Iphigénie!
Orphée et Eurydice – J’ai perdu mon Eurydice (Che faro senza Euridice)

Gounod

Faust – Jewel song ; King of Tule

Massenet

Le Cid – Pleurez, mes yeux
Hérodiade – Il est doux, il est bon
Thaïs – Te souvient-il (closing duet)

Offenbach

Les Contes d’Hoffmann – Elle a fui ; Belle nuit (Barcarolle) ; Doll Song

German Operatic Repertoire

Korngold

Die tote Stadt – Glück, das mir verblieb

Mozart

Die Entführung aus dem Serail – Konstanze’s arias
Zaide - Ruhe sanft
Die Zauberflöte - Erste Dame ; Parmina’s arias

Richard Strauss

Capriccio – Kein andern (Countess' aria)
Der Rosenkavalier – Trio Marschallin, Octavian & Sophie

Wagner

Lohengrin – Elsa's Traum & other excerpts from the role
Tannhäuser – Excerpts from the role of Venus

Weber

Der Freischütz – Agathe's arias

Other Operatic Repertoire

Borodin

Prince Igor – Yaroslavna’s Lament

Dvorak

Rusalka – Rusalka’s role, Act I (in Czech ) including "Song to the moon"

Prokofiev

War and Peace (Prokofiev) – Duet

Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin – Opening duet
Iolantha - Iolantha's role

German Lieder

Songs by Hugo Wolf, Schubert, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Richard Strauss, Mozart.

French Songs

Chansons et mèlodies by Duparc, Fauré, Chausson, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel, Delibes, Satie.

Spanish Songs

Songs by Obradors, Manuel de Falla, Rodrigo, Granados.

English Songs

Songs by William Walton, Benjamin Britten, Michael Head, Vaughan Williams, Armstrong Gibbs, Ivor Gurney, Morley, Dowland, Purcell, Roger Quilter.

Italian Songs

Various songs by Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Puccini, Arditi and Verdi.

Russian & Czechoslovakian Songs

Songs by Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Dvorak, Rimsky-Korsakov.

Oratorios, Cantatas, Passions, Motets

Bach

Arias from St. John Passion
Arias from St. Matthew Passion
Arias from various cantatas

Handel

Excerpts from Joshua, Messiah, Samson, Deborah and other works.

Mozart

Motet. Exsultate, jubilate
Arias and duets from various masses and the Requiem.

Verdi

Requiem

Vivaldi

Excerpts from the cantatas

Operetta

Lehar

Arias and duets from The Merry Widow, Der Zarewitsch and Paganini

Johann Strauss

The arias and duets for both sopranos from Die Fledermaus
Excerpts from the role of Saffi from Der Zigeunerbaron incl. So elend und so treu...O habe acht

Stolz

Du sollst der Kaiser meiner Seele sein from Der Favorit

Suppé

Hab' ich nur deine Liebe from Boccaccio

Millöcker

Ich schenk mein Herz from Die Dubarry

Zeller

Schenkt man sich Rosen in Tirol from Der Vogelhändler)
Sei nicht bös from Der Obersteiger)

Offenbach

Songs from La Périchole
The role of Venus from Orpheus in the Underworld

Musical Comedy, etc.

Excerpts from shows by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Noel Coward, Bernstein, Richard Rodgers.

Early Music

Songs, duets and madrigals by Monteverdi, Purcell, Dowland, Handel, Luzzaschi, Vivaldi, Alessandro Scarlatti, Couperin, Pergolesi, Martini, Caccini as well as arie antiche by other composers.