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Nan Hughes
(mezzo-soprano)
Kathy McMillan
(soprano)
Amy Ellen Anderson
(mezzo-soprano)
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 Kathy McMillan's career defines versatility with a repertoire ranging from opera to musical theater, cabaret and oratorio.
Classical highlights include a leading role in the U.S. premiere of Thomas Ades' chamber opera Powder Her Face and appearing as soprano soloist in Mahler's Das Klagende Lied, both with conductor Kent Nagano and the Berkeley Symphony, and as soloist in Mozart's Coronation Mass under George Cleve at the gala opening of the Midsummer Mozart concert season at Davis Symphony Hall, where she was hailed as "splendid" by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Favorite operatic roles include Blonde in Abduction from the Seraglio, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, and Elsie in Yeoman of the Guard.
Equally at home in musical theater, she has appeared as Young Heidi in Follies with the American Musical Theater of San Jose, Jenny in Company with the Marin Theater Company, Winifred in Once upon a Mattress (performed in German at JUTA in Düsseldorf), Bo Peep in Babes in Toyland at Avery Fisher Hall (in New York's Lincoln Center), and in Frank Loesser's Hans Christian Andersen with the American Conservatory Theater.
Ms. McMillan has been heard in recital and oratorio in France, Germany, Japan, England, and throughout the United States, including Bach's St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, and Christmas Oratorio, Faure's Requiem, and Haydn's The Creation.
Other performance highlights include her solo cabaret debut at San Francisco's The Plush Room, touring with the German Army Big Band, and performing cabaret in Paris and Casablanca.
Ms. McMillan's early musical training was as a violinist. After graduating from Oberlin College Conservatory, she went on to complete her studies in Europe where she lived and performed in Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, and Paris. She currently resides in Chicago.
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