Soprano Kathleen O’Mara is currently a member of LA Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program and is a 2024 recipient of the prestigious Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation. She made her LA Opera debut in the fall of 2023 as Berta in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, which she will reprise for her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2025. She has also been seen at LA Opera as Erste Zofe in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg, conducted by James Conlon. Additionally in the 2024-2025 season she will sing Kate Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly at LA Opera, and debut Mimì in La bohéme at San Diego Opera. 

In the summer of 2024, she was a Gaddes Festival Artist with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where she appeared as Duchess Christina in Galileo Galilei by Philip Glass and covered Mimì in La bohème.